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poster The Bargain Hunt
The Bargain Hunt
11mn - Comedy
The Smith Family goes for bargain hunt at a warehouse sale.
poster Stop Thief!
Stop Thief!
2mn - Crime, Comedy
A lad from a butcher shop is carrying a tray laden with a roast or a leg of lamb. A hobo grabs it and runs. The boy gives chase, joined by dogs, as neighbors watch the spectacle. The hobo jumps into a lar…
poster The Kleptomaniac
The Kleptomaniac
10mn - Crime
A well-dressed woman leaves her home and takes a carriage to a department store. While she is in the store, she steals several items, and is caught by store employees. Meanwhile, a poor woman with two sma…
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 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 Beauty's Worth
Beauty's Worth
(3.2/5)
76mn - Drama
Prudence Cole is an unsophisticated Quaker girl being raised by her two aunts. Prudence is flirted with by snobbish Henry Garrison, who actually disdains the girl for her lack of worldliness and savoir fa…
poster Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist
(3.3/5)
74mn - Drama
Oliver's mother, a penniless outcast, died giving birth to him. As a young boy Oliver is brought up in a workhouse, later apprenticed to an uncaring undertaker, and eventually is taken in by a gang of thi…
poster The Thieving Hand
The Thieving Hand
6mn - Comedy
A one-armed street peddler notices that a well-to-do man has dropped his ring. He returns it to him. The wealthy man is very grateful and, to show his appreciation, takes the peddler to a 'Limb Store', wh…
poster The Luck o' the Foolish
The Luck o' the Foolish
(3.2/5)
21mn - Comedy
Harry and Marcie are on a train headed for a new job. There's comedy in the berths and during Harry's morning shave, then a thief steals the money Harry needed for his new job, so he has to go back to bei…
poster All Dolled Up
All Dolled Up
(3.0/5)
50mn - Comedy, Drama
The department store clerk Mary prevents a robbery at the store where she works, involving a necklace belonging to a rich unmarried woman named Eva Bandy. Later, she manages via a misunderstanding to prev…
poster The Innocence of Ruth
The Innocence of Ruth
(3.1/5)
59mn - Drama
The young Ruth Travers, left an orphan after the death of her father financially ruined by Mortimer Reynolds, is welcomed at home by Jimmy Carter, a young millionaire who becomes her guardian. Ruth's wins…
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 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 Blondie on a Budget
Blondie on a Budget
(3.3/5)
72mn - Comedy
Dagwood wants to join the trout club and Blondie wants a fur coat. Jealousy reigns when Dag's old girlfriend Joan shows up, but nothing else matters when a drawing at the movie theatre provides money for …
poster The Treasures of Satan
The Treasures of Satan
3mn - Horror, Fantasy
The setting of this fantastic scene represents the hall of an old chateau in which a miser has locked up seven large bags containing his wealth. Satan, who has made his way into the chateau, puts the seve…
poster For a Book of Dollars
For a Book of Dollars
80mn - Comedy, Western
A bounty hunter name Amen is hired by a group of nuns to recover stolen money. The nuns are female desperadoes in disguise, who want the booty pillaged by an outlaw named Catapult and his gang.
poster Heckle
Heckle
(3/5)
98mn - Drama, Comedy
A supermarket cashier with dreams beyond checkout lines discovers her calling when a washed-up comedian challenges her to face her fears on stage, launching a journey of self-discovery where bombing on st…
poster Teddy at the Throttle
Teddy at the Throttle
26mn - Comedy
Gloria Dawn lives down the hall from her sweetheart, Bobbie Knight. The dishonest Henry Black is Gloria's guardian, and he is also in charge of Bobbie's inheritance. The scheming guardian and his sister h…
poster Three's a Crowd
Three's a Crowd
(3.1/5)
60mn - Comedy
Harry, The Odd Fellow, is a tenement worker who lives alone in a shack alongside a warehouse and longs for the companionship of a wife and children like other men. One day he spies a pretty girl in his te…
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…
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