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poster Pastry Town Wedding

Pastry Town Wedding

7mn - Animation

A young couple meet in a land made of pastries. The two seem to fall in love at first sight, and arrange a "Pastry Town Wedding," conducted by small pastry-making people.

poster Max Takes a Bath

Max Takes a Bath

On doctor's orders Max buys a new bathtub, but Max struggles to fill it, and when he does, he can't bathe in peace!

poster A Clever Dummy

A Clever Dummy

An inventor and his assistant build a robot that looks like their janitor, and everyone tries to profit off the invention.

poster The Derby

The Derby

1mn - Documentary

poster Gas and Air

Gas and Air

Stan is Phillip McCann, a gas station attendant who arrives at his job by chauffeur and donning a fur coat over his work clothes. After being dropped off, he puts his sign on the doorframe and wanders of…

poster Robert Macaire and Bertrand

Robert Macaire and Bertrand

11mn - Comedy, Crime

Robert Macaire (Chevalier Macaire) was a noted criminal and assassin who appears in French plays. His name is renowned in French culture as that of the archetypal villain.

poster Le cigare introuvable

Le cigare introuvable

Three portly, white-face clowns wrangle over a cigar stub. One of them keeps it by hiding it in his mouth and similar ruses.

poster Quicksand

Quicksand

79mn - Crime, Thriller

Young auto mechanic Dan Brady takes $20 from a cash register at work to go on a date with blonde femme fatale Vera Novak. Brady intends to put the money back before it is missed, but the garage's bookkeep…

poster Beauty's Worth

Beauty's Worth

Prudence Cole is an unsophisticated Quaker girl being raised by her two aunts. Prudence is flirted with by snobbish Henry Garrison, who actually disdains the girl for her lack of worldliness and savoir fa…

poster The Blacksmith

The Blacksmith

Buster clowns around in a blacksmith's shop until he and the smithy get in a fight which sends the smithy to jail. Buster helps several customers with horses, then destroys a Rolls Royce while fixing the …

poster Our Man Flint

Our Man Flint

108mn - Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

When scientists use eco-terrorism to impose their will on the world by affecting extremes in the weather, Intelligence Chief Cramden calls in top agent Derek Flint.

poster The Rough House

The Rough House

Living under the same roof with his newly-wed wife and his mother-in-law, a careless Mr Rough sets the nuptial bedroom on fire, as the residence's cook tries to woo the maid who only has eyes for the char…

poster Pick and Shovel

Pick and Shovel

Pick and Shovel, also known as The Miner, is a 1923 silent comedy film starring Stan Laurel.

poster The Prince of Magicians

The Prince of Magicians

2mn - Fantasy, Comedy

A magician does tricks with the aid of his assistant, the Human Pump.

poster The Colonel's Shower Bath

The Colonel's Shower Bath

A colonel in the military receives an unorthodox shower, an unorthodox shower indeed!

poster Ko-Ko's Kink

Ko-Ko's Kink

6mn - Animation, Comedy

An Inkwell Imp short.

poster Vacuum Killer

Vacuum Killer

After losing an arm in an explosion caused by his attempt to resurrect his recently deceased mother, Chris Burst, a young laboratory assistant, seeks refuge in the home of a drug dealer known to his frien…

Framed

82mn - Crime, Drama

Truck driver Mike Lambert is a down-and-out mining engineer searching for a job. When his rig breaks down in a small town, he happens upon a venomous seductress. When her boyfriend robs a bank, they inten…

poster Teaserama

Teaserama

69mn - Documentary

A collection of numerous burlesque acts from the 1950s, including strippers, and cult character Betty Page introducing the acts.

poster Barrabas

Barrabas

Rudolph Strelitz, known as 'Barrabas', is the leader of a brutal underground gang causing chaos and destruction in the lives of civilized people. A lawyer, Claude Varèse, is strongly determined to bring S…

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