Sham marriage

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poster Half Marriage
Half Marriage
(2.8/5)
68mn - Drama, Romance
A young woman secretly marries an architect employed by her father, fearing her parents' disapproval will cost her financial security. When her family brings her home and pushes another suitor upon her, j…
poster Shanghaied Lovers
Shanghaied Lovers
(2.7/5)
15mn - Comedy
Shanghaied on his wedding day, Harry struggles to cope with a cruel captain while fending off a sailor who seems attracted to him.
poster Matrimony's Speed Limit
Matrimony's Speed Limit
(3.0/5)
13mn - Comedy
A man must marry by noon or lose his inheritance. It's 11:50 a.m. and he can't find his fiancée.
poster I Was a Mail Order Bride
I Was a Mail Order Bride
(3.0/5)
92mn - Comedy, Short, Romance
On a bet with one of his practical-joking partners, a Los Angeles lawyer responds to an ad from a pretty Chicago magazine writer offering herself as a bridal candidate as an investigative reporting assign…
poster Sold for Marriage
Sold for Marriage
55mn - Drama
A poor Russian girl's beauty leads her unscrupulous uncle to bring her to the United States. There he is going to sell her into a marriage with a rich old man she has never met. But her lover, an returnin…
poster Brideless Groom
Brideless Groom
(3.6/5)
17mn - Comedy
Shemp has to get married within seven hours in order to inherit $500,000. Now that's incentive! The bumbling threesome set to work right away with hilarious results.
poster Helen's Marriage
Helen's Marriage
(2.7/5)
7mn - Comedy, Romance
Helen and Tom are desperate to get married. After a foiled elopement attempt, the couple hatches a “fake wedding” scheme to trick Helen’s protective parents into allowing their marriage.
poster You May Not Kiss the Bride
You May Not Kiss the Bride
(2.7/5)
99mn - Action, Crime, Comedy
An unassuming pet photographer is forced into a sham marriage with a mobster's daughter, but their tropical honeymoon turns into a dangerous rescue mission when she is kidnapped by gunmen.
poster Married to Order
Married to Order
16mn - Comedy
Boy meets girl. Father hates boy. Girl dresses up as her brother to get out of the house to elope but the near-sighted father mistakes her for the twin brother and all chaos follows.
poster The Married Virgin
The Married Virgin
(2.7/5)
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 Runaway Match, or Marriage by Motor
The Runaway Match, or Marriage by Motor
(2.9/5)
5mn - Drama, Action, Romance
A couple elopes; Her father pursues via motorcar.
poster The Matrimaniac
The Matrimaniac
(3.2/5)
46mn - Romance, Comedy
A young couple attempts to elope, with the bride's irate father in hot pursuit. The train stops briefly and the young man dashes off to find a minister, but before he can get himself and the minister onto…
poster The Mender of Nets
The Mender of Nets
(3.1/5)
14mn - Romance, Drama
A young woman who works mending fishermen's nets is engaged to be married. But her fiancé has an old love who refuses to let him go. Further, his former girlfriend has a brother who is willing to use viol…
poster His Wooden Wedding
His Wooden Wedding
20mn - Comedy
A few moments before Charley is going to marry, a friend gives him an anonymous note stating that the bride has a wooden leg.
poster His Marriage Wow
His Marriage Wow
21mn - Comedy
In Highland Park, it's Agnes Fisher and Harold Hope's wedding day. Mishaps almost keep them from getting hitched: he goes to the wrong church, then, one of the guests, Professor McGlumm, convinces him tha…
poster Broken Ways
Broken Ways
17mn - Western
In this story the young wife concerned is called upon to solve a rather momentous question. After separating from her husband, whom she has discovered to be a brute and a criminal, she is about to give he…
poster Jewish Prudence
Jewish Prudence
(3.2/5)
20mn - Comedy
Papa Gimplewart, father to three children is unimpressed by the young lawyer who wants to marry his daughter.
poster The Unusual Honeymoon
The Unusual Honeymoon
15mn - Comedy
Newly married Thomas and Mary MacGregor attend the village fair on their honeymoon. The balloon ascension is advertised for the afternoon. Everything is in readiness and Mary induces Thomas to enter the b…
poster Vows of Deception
Vows of Deception
(2.9/5)
94mn - Short, Drama, Thriller
When a prominent lawyer is found murdered, his wife is promptly arrested and charged with the crime. She swiftly accuses her stepson, with whom she claims to be having an affair. This sheds enough reaso…
poster The Sultan's Wife
The Sultan's Wife
24mn -
On a sailing trip, sweethearts Bobby and Gloria arrive in a very sinister-looking India, where an evil rajah attempts to force Gloria into his harem.
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