Important business to own

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poster Big Business
Big Business
25mn - Comedy
In this short the kids are managing their own barber shop, with harrowing results. No one gets hurt, but most of the customers wind up bald or close to it: one kid even gets a prematurely fashionable Moha…
poster The Cowboy Millionaire
The Cowboy Millionaire
21mn - Western
Bud Noble, a handsome specimen of manhood, is foreman on the Circle "D" ranch outside of Circle City, Idaho, and our opening scene pictures Bud as the cowboy roping and tying a steer. With its bucking bro…
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 Cohen’s Fire Sale
Cohen’s Fire Sale
13mn - Comedy, Crime
A shopkeeper suffers the loss of some valuable merchandise, and thinks of a way to regain his losses.
poster The Proposition
The Proposition
0mn - Romance, Drama, Adventure
In early 19th century Wales, Catherine Morgan, a widow with two daughters, must endure the bumpy road to a distant market in order to sell her cattle to save her farm and family.
poster The Corporation
The Corporation
(4/5)
145mn - Documentary
Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational model is legally a person, it has become a dominant economic, political and social force around the globe. …
poster Forbidden Fruit
Forbidden Fruit
(3.3/5)
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 The Pawnshop
The Pawnshop
(3.5/5)
26mn - Comedy
A pawnbroker's assistant deals with his grumpy boss, his annoying co-worker and some eccentric customers as he flirts with the pawnbroker's daughter, until a perfidious crook with bad intentions arrives a…
poster A Corner in Wheat
A Corner in Wheat
14mn - Drama
On a whim, a greedy tycoon decides to corner the world market in wheat. This doubles the price of bread, forcing grain producers into charity lines and others further into poverty. The film contrasts the …
poster That's My Wife
That's My Wife
(3.4/5)
20mn - Comedy
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 The Saphead
The Saphead
77mn - Drama, Comedy
Nick Van Alstyne owns the Henrietta silver mine and is very rich and his son Bertie is naive and spoiled. His daughter Rose is married to shady investor Mark. Mark wrecks Bertie's wedding plans by making …
poster A Self-Made Mongrel
A Self-Made Mongrel
(3/5)
7mn - Animation
A wealthy eccentric owns a talking mongrel dog, and the dog, deciding to upgrade his pedigree, decides he is a born watch-dog. The owner puts on a mask with the intention of breaking into his own house an…
poster Let's Go
Let's Go
66mn - Action, Adventure
The no-good son of a company owner is sent to investigate a problematic business deal.
poster Our Gang
Our Gang
(3.8/5)
20mn - Comedy
An unethical merchant moves into town and steals customers from the widowed owner of an established store; the gang steps in to help.
poster Manhattan Tower
Manhattan Tower
(3.2/5)
67mn - Drama
When a naive secretary invests her life savings with her charming but corrupt boss in the gleaming Manhattan Tower, she unwittingly becomes entangled in a web of embezzlement, forbidden romance, and high-…
poster A Fool and His Money
A Fool and His Money
(3.3/5)
10mn - Comedy
Sam the white-washer pines for the affluent Lindy, but she has dumped him in favor of another. Sam finds a large sum of money, and goes to New York to enjoy a shopping spree, buying new clothes, jewelry a…
poster The Bargain Hunt
The Bargain Hunt
11mn - Comedy
The Smith Family goes for bargain hunt at a warehouse sale.
poster Anything Once!
Anything Once!
(3.2/5)
20mn - Comedy
ANYTHING ONCE! is a Cinderella story. Mabel works in a tailor shop, pressing clothes and dreaming of a better life. We're told that she's taken a lot of bumps in life and doesn't know where the next bump …
poster An American in the Making
An American in the Making
15mn -
An Immigrant has come to the United States and is sponsored by a relative. He takes him to find employment and show him how the American work is protected by showing different types of safety equipment.
poster Super-Hooper-Dyne Lizzies
Super-Hooper-Dyne Lizzies
18mn - Comedy
An eccentric inventor has thought of a way that automobiles can run on radio waves, without gasoline. His plans put him in conflict with the owner of an oil company, who is also pursuing the inventor's da…
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