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poster The Servant Girl's Legacy

The Servant Girl's Legacy

A serving girl receives a telegram that she has come into an inheritance. The family she works for suddenly starts to treat her well, and several young men come to court her. Then she receives another tel…

poster The Diligent Orderly

The Diligent Orderly

A comedic short about a clumsy valet.

poster Faithful

Faithful

12mn - Comedy, Romance

Adonese is returning home from seeing the woman he is courting, and he is driving around a corner when his car accidentally brushes against the tramp 'Faithful' and knocks him over. Feeling sorry for him,…

poster Marching On

Marching On

118mn - War, Drama

After finding a golden coin, a young orphaned boy's wild spending leads him down a path of materialism and debt, until he escapes to his uncle's countryside retreat where he learns three essential life le…

poster Fate of Graduates

Fate of Graduates

The film tells the tragic story of two recent college graduates, Tao Jianping ("Tao" is a homophone for peach), and Li Lilian ("Li" is a homophone for plum). Married, the two hope to change society for th…

poster That's My Wife

That's My Wife

Oliver stands to inherit a large fortune from his rich Uncle Bernal, with the condition that he be happily married. But when Mrs. Hardy walks out just before Uncle Bernal is due for a visit, Stanley is pr…

poster Sin Takes a Holiday

Sin Takes a Holiday

81mn - Romance, Comedy

Dowdy Sylvia accepts her boss' marriage proposal, even though he only asked her to avoid marriage to another woman. As a wealthy wife, Sylvia changes from ugly duckling to uninhibited swan and even contem…

poster Manhandled

Manhandled

63mn - Romance, Comedy, Drama

Comedy which concerns the struggles of an ambitious department store sales clerk who is caught up in New York high society.

Suds

75mn - Comedy, Drama, Romance

Amanda Afflick is a lovesick laundress who daydreams about customer Horace Greensmith and cherishes the shirt he brought in for washing eight months and sixteen days ago. She tells her fellow workers that…

poster The Parson's Widow

The Parson's Widow

93mn - Comedy, Drama

A young man is elected by a small village to be its parson. As part of his duties, he is required to marry the widow of the parson before him. This poses two problems--first, the widow is old enough to be…

poster Forbidden Fruit

Forbidden Fruit

87mn - Drama, Romance

Mary Maddock works as a seamstress to bring home money while her husband Steve, unemployed, has no real prospects of earning money. Mary's employers, are trying to strike an oil related business deal with…

poster Stick Around

Stick Around

A paperhanger and his helper arrive at a sanitarium to do a job. The chubby paperhanger leaves most of the work to his thin assistant, who tries gamely but usually makes a mess. Various patients at the as…

poster Debbie Does Dallas

Debbie Does Dallas

Debbie Benton is the captain of her high school cheerleading squad, and has been accepted to try out for the Texas Cowgirls. Her parents disapprove, though, and refuse to pay the fare to Texas. In a bid t…

poster Lonely Wives

Lonely Wives

A highly respectable lawyer becomes a sexual animal after working hours; His live-in mother-in-law tries to keep him in line. When an actor-impersonator comes to see him, the two switch lives.

D.O.A.

83mn - Crime, Drama, Mystery

Frank Bigelow is about to die, and he knows it. The accountant has been poisoned and has only 24 hours before the lethal concoction kills him. Determined to find out who his murderer is, Frank, with the h…

poster Feet of Mud

Feet of Mud

As Harry has "cleaned up" on the football field and won the big game, Natalie's dad figured that he should do the same in the world of work before marrying his daughter. Harry's chance to prove himself co…

poster The Married Virgin

The Married Virgin

71mn - Drama, Romance

In order to save her wealthy father from disgrace and a possible prison sentence, a daughter agrees to marry the gigolo who's been blackmailing him...

poster The Helpful (?) Sisterhood

The Helpful (?) Sisterhood

Mary is forced into shoplifting to keep up with her rich sorority sisters.

poster Fatty Joins the Force

Fatty Joins the Force

Fatty rescues the daughter of the police commisioner and is given a job as an officer as a reward, but its not all its cracked up to be!

poster Jury Duty: The Comedy

Jury Duty: The Comedy

94mn - Comedy, Short

Mild and meek accountant Sanford Lagelfost has been charged with embezzling $3 million dollars from Trout Industries. A decidedly mixed bag of jurors are chosen to serve on the case, including Eddie, a wa…

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