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poster Barrabas
Barrabas
489mn - Crime
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…
poster The Cook's Revenge
The Cook's Revenge
1mn - Comedy, Fantasy
A decapitated cook wreaks havoc on the restaurant proprietor.
poster Horse Shoeing
Horse Shoeing
1mn - Documentary, Drama
One of the pictures to be seen in the machine, for example, was that of a blacksmith shop in which two men were working, one shoeing a horse, the other heating iron at the forge. One would be seen to driv…
poster Pest Pupil
Pest Pupil
(2.7/5)
6mn - Animation
1957 Baby Huey is a big duck enrolled in kindergarten. Despite being big and clumsy, he attempts to fit in, causing havoc and getting expelled by the teacher. His mother then hires a private tutor, who is…
poster The Butcher Boy
The Butcher Boy
(3.2/5)
24mn - Comedy
Customers and clerks frolic in a general store. Roscoe walks out of the freezer wearing a fur coat, then does some clever cleaver tossing. In Buster's film debut he buys a pail of molasses.
poster Eskimotive
Eskimotive
(3.2/5)
8mn - Animation
Felix & his friend have fun playing at blowing bubbles. Felix gets inside one and is blown away. The bubble lands on a snowy mountain and turns...
poster An Over-Incubated Baby
An Over-Incubated Baby
1mn - Sci-Fi, Comedy
An up to date idea and a great picture. The professor sits in his laboratory with his newly invented baby incubator. A mother who is anxious for the growth of her child enters, places her baby in care of …
poster Max and Jane Want to Do Theater
Max and Jane Want to Do Theater
(3.1/5)
13mn - Comedy
Max is a stage struck youth, and because of a deep-seated desire to go on the stage, refuses to consent to a marriage his father has planned for him. The girl, whom Max has never met, is also stage struck…
poster Jail Bait
Jail Bait
74mn - Action, Crime, Thriller
Don Gregor, the son of famous plastic surgeon Dr. Boris Gregor, begins to hang around with young criminal Vic Brady and carry a gun. The pair attempt an armed holdup, and when things start to go wrong Gre…
poster The Magician
The Magician
1mn - Fantasy, Drama
In this scene is shown a magician behind an ordinary table, upon which he suddenly and mysteriously causes to appear a large box, into which he leaps. The sides of the box fall to the ground, but instead …
poster Painkiller
Painkiller
80mn - Thriller, Action, Mystery
When an experimental lethal injection makes an inmate immortal, the most dangerous convicts seize control of the prison in a desperate bid to escape and conquer the world.
poster It's a Gift
It's a Gift
12mn - Comedy
A group of oil magnates are trying to think of new ways to attract business. One of them suggests that they contact the inventor Pollard, who has devised a new gasoline substitute. Pollard himself lives i…
poster Mr. Imperium
Mr. Imperium
87mn - Music, Drama, Romance
A pretty singer/dancer is becoming an actress whereas the playboy crown prince is becoming a monarch. Each will have their clandestine romance interfered with by their changing circumstances.
poster The Fear of Zeppelins
The Fear of Zeppelins
11mn - Comedy, Adventure
Cretinetti is about to get married and he could not be any happier and more in love with his Junoesque consort. But just on the day of his wedding, he reads a notice on the wall explaining how to behave i…
poster The Diabolical Church Window
The Diabolical Church Window
7mn - Fantasy
Here we have an old scholar/alchemist brooding over a book, challenged by the devil, and going through the familiar sorcery to create a woman by throwing pieces of clothing against a stain-glass church wi…
poster Ko-Ko Smokes
Ko-Ko Smokes
(3.5/5)
5mn - Animation
Max draws a big cigar and Ko-Ko and Fitz want to smoke it. Max's coworker smokes up a storm in the office until the fire marshal arrives.
poster The Domestic Hearth
The Domestic Hearth
39mn - Drama
Drama about a young man blinded by love.
poster The First 100 Years
The First 100 Years
13mn - Thriller, Comedy
A man saves his lady love from Black Mike then comes wedded bliss. He hires a cook, who's brusque, domineering, and constantly smoking a cigar. Out of the blue, the couple gets a visit from his old friend…
poster The Oath and the Man
The Oath and the Man
12mn - History, Drama, Romance
A rich nobleman steals a perfume merchant's wife just prior to the French Revolution, in which the perfumer is a leader of the peasants. His priest made him swear an oath to leave vengeance to God, howeve…
poster The Imperceptible Transmutations
The Imperceptible Transmutations
2mn -
This shows a prince entering upon the stage of the King's private theatre. He is about to do a few mystifying tricks for the amusement of the court.
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