Risky business

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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 Danger Game
The Danger Game
(3.4/5)
50mn - Comedy
Wealthy Clytie Rogers writes a novel in which a society girl commits a burglary, but it is "roasted" by critic Jimmy Gilpin, who writes that her story is completely implausible. To prove him wrong, Clytie…
poster Dunces and Dangers
Dunces and Dangers
(3.2/5)
10mn - Comedy
Larry and his wife are desperately poor—with no food. However, the butcher and grocer show up to collect money they are owed and they won't take no for an answer. They are ready to take anything and every…
poster A Natural Born Gambler
A Natural Born Gambler
22mn - Comedy
A lovable scoundrel is busted for gambling and thrown into jail, where he dreams of playing poker - but even in his dreams, he loses.
poster The Scheming Gambler's Paradise
The Scheming Gambler's Paradise
3mn - Comedy
A combination gambling den and bawdy house is set up so that croupiers, patrons, prostitutes, and the owner can quickly change it all into a mercantile establishment when the cops stage a raid.
poster Dirty Laundry
Dirty Laundry
79mn - Comedy, Action
A young man and his girlfriend unwittingly come into possession of a bag containing one million dollars belonging to a drug-smuggling ring. The mobsters try to catch the couple and retrieve their money.
poster Below the Surface
Below the Surface
60mn - Drama
A widely respected deep-sea diver is approached by a ring of con artists who want him to be the front man for a phony scheme to recover gold from sunken ships. When he refuses, they send a sexy young woma…
poster Men O' War
Men O' War
(3.6/5)
19mn - Comedy
Sailors Stan and Ollie offer to buy sodas for two women they meet in a park, even though they are short on cash. Luckily Stan wins the jackpot on a slot machine and the boys have enough money to rent a bo…
poster Love In Limbo
Love In Limbo
(2.7/5)
95mn -
Ken Riddle (Craig Adams), to whom sex is a mystery, joins his two mates from work, Arthur (Russell Crowe) and Barry (Aden Young), on a trip to Kalgoorlie’s infamous red light street in a fumbling attempt …
poster Hot Stuff
Hot Stuff
(3.2/5)
91mn - Comedy
When a police department's burglary task force is facing the possibility of being shut down because of their low conviction rate decides to try a new approach to apprehending their targets. They take over…
poster Million Dollar Weekend
Million Dollar Weekend
(3.1/5)
72mn - Comedy, Thriller
Burned-out stockbroker Nicholas Lawrence steals a million dollars and flees to Hawaii, only to find himself entangled with mysterious widow Cynthia Strong, who's being blackmailed by a sinister passenger …
poster The Delicious Little Devil
The Delicious Little Devil
(3.1/5)
77mn - Comedy, Drama
A poor hat-check girl loses her job and is forced to get a job as a dancer at a roadhouse. There she falls in love with the son of a rich businessman. The boy's father, believing her to be after the famil…
poster Their Purple Moment
Their Purple Moment
(3.4/5)
21mn - Comedy
The boys sneak out for a night on the town, unaware that Stan's wife has switched her grocery coupons for Stan's secret stash of mad money. The boys run up a huge tab treating a couple of girls to dinner …
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 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 Quicksand
Quicksand
(3.3/5)
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 Dangerous Charter
Dangerous Charter
76mn - Drama, Thriller
When struggling fishermen discover an abandoned luxury yacht with a corpse aboard, they think their salvage claim will solve their financial woes. But their dream windfall becomes a deadly nightmare as th…
poster The Act
The Act
94mn - Crime, Comedy
A cynical political comedy where blackmail, a complex hotel heist, and Washington corruption converge in a twisted caper full of disguises and double-crosses, as union bosses, the President, and a band of…
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 Dangerous Afternoon
Dangerous Afternoon
(3.1/5)
59mn - Drama
The manager of a halfway house for female ex-cons takes action when a blackmailer threatens to expose her secret.
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