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Explore our selection of movies and TV shows hit & miss

poster The Old Shell Game
The Old Shell Game
(3.8/5)
7mn - Animation
A starving wolf tries to find something to eat but keeps striking out. He even tries to cook a turtle.
poster Hit and Run
Hit and Run
(2.8/5)
0mn - Thriller
Still grieving his young wife's death in a hit-and-run accident, Manhattan cab-driver David Marks accepts a regular evening assignment to drive a beautiful but enigmatic woman to a mansion outside New Yor…
poster A Lucky Strike
A Lucky Strike
13mn - Comedy
Bill is a rich miner but wants a wife. He advertises in an Eastern paper and receives a response from Nellie and Eleanor, but doesn't know it was sent as a joke. When he travels East to meet them, they ha…
poster Hector's Hectic Life
Hector's Hectic Life
(3.0/5)
6mn - Animation, Comedy
Hector is a dog with an easy life and the run of the house when the lady of the house gives him a warning...one more mess and you're out. Hector would be okay if not for the fact that three little puppies…
poster Tracked by Bloodhounds; or, A Lynching at Cripple Creek
Tracked by Bloodhounds; or, A Lynching at Cripple Creek
4mn - Western
A tramp kills a generous woman. In revenge, her husband tracks down and lynches the tramp.
poster The Tramp and the Dog
The Tramp and the Dog
1mn - Comedy
A tramp steals a housewife's pie, and is pursued by her bulldog, which latches onto his rear as he scrambles over a fence.
poster Suspense.
Suspense.
10mn - Drama, Thriller, Horror
An isolated house is too remote for a lone servant, who leaves a note, quietly exits the back door, and puts the key under the mat. Left alone in the house is a mother and her infant. A tramp has watched …
poster Hungry Hearts
Hungry Hearts
11mn - Comedy
Plump and Runt are starving artists who are both in love with their pretty model. Runt chooses money over love and marries a widow he thinks is rich. It turns out the model is the real heiress, and Plump …
poster Colonel Heeza Liar's African Hunt
Colonel Heeza Liar's African Hunt
(2.7/5)
10mn - Animation, Comedy
Mistaking a tiger's tail for a snake, Colonel Heeza Liar puts himself in wrong with a big tiger, who gives him a very bad quarter of an hour, until the matchless courage and ingenuity of our hero overcome…
poster Hard Luck
Hard Luck
22mn - Comedy
A down on his luck young man makes several attempts at committing suicide but fails them too. He then finds himself becoming more confident through a series of petty adventures, to such an extent that thi…
poster Hot Stuff
Hot Stuff
(3.2/5)
91mn - Comedy
When a police department's burglary task force is facing the possibility of being shut down because of their low conviction rate decides to try a new approach to apprehending their targets. They take over…
poster Ups an' Downs Derby
Ups an' Downs Derby
(2.8/5)
6mn - Animation
aid to be the fastest horse around, Lightning the horse is a sure bet for the Ups and Downs steeplechase. The jockey is all set to go for the big race, but Lightning decides to take a nap instead. The joc…
poster Perfect Profile
Perfect Profile
0mn -
Brad Johnson is a successful young manager who owns a millions dollar heavy company. He believes the key to his success was trusting in the forecasts of his computers. So he wants to use the same method t…
poster The Luck o' the Foolish
The Luck o' the Foolish
(3.2/5)
21mn - Comedy
Harry and Marcie are on a train headed for a new job. There's comedy in the berths and during Harry's morning shave, then a thief steals the money Harry needed for his new job, so he has to go back to bei…
poster Felix Finds Out
Felix Finds Out
(3.1/5)
9mn - Animation
Willie, Felix's owner, gets an assignment to find out why the moon shines. Felix decides to help him get the answer, but winds up getting involved with bootleggers who are making "moonshine".
poster Stop Thief!
Stop Thief!
2mn - Crime, Comedy
A lad from a butcher shop is carrying a tray laden with a roast or a leg of lamb. A hobo grabs it and runs. The boy gives chase, joined by dogs, as neighbors watch the spectacle. The hobo jumps into a lar…
poster The Floor Below
The Floor Below
(3.2/5)
80mn - Comedy, Drama
Patricia O'Rourke, a good-natured prankster who works as a copy girl for the Sentinel , angers her co-worker Stubbs and is about to lose her job when the managing editor offers her one more chance. Her as…
poster Flirting with Fate
Flirting with Fate
(3.2/5)
57mn - Adventure, Comedy
In the midst of an emotional depression, a man hires a murderer to kill him. But the despair soon passes, and the man must now escape the killer he's hired to end his life.
poster The Adventure of the Hasty Elopement
The Adventure of the Hasty Elopement
15mn - Comedy, Mystery
An amateur detective's automobile is stolen by a young woman who is determined to elope, leading to a complicated chase involving several vehicles.
poster The Finish of Bridget McKeen
The Finish of Bridget McKeen
(2.7/5)
1mn - Comedy
The cook has trouble lighting the stove, so she adds kerosene, with explosive results.
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