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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 138 films · Page 5.
Splatstick, buddy film, comedy film, musical film
In the early 18th century, the notorious bandit Fra Diavolo regales his compatriots at their encampment in Northern Italy with an account of his recent encounter with the aristocratic couple Lord Rocburg and Lady Pamela. Assuming the guise…
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Splatstick, comedy film, silent film
left|thumb|Harold and Mary thumb|thumbtime=9|The Kid Brother (1927) The Hickorys are a respected family in Hickoryville. Sheriff Jim and his big, strong sons Leo and Olin have little respect for the youngest son, Harold, who does not have …
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Splatstick, buddy film, comedy film
Private detectives Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy embark on a journey from their native Peoria, Illinois to Mexico City with the intent of apprehending the notorious criminal Hattie Blake, widely recognized as "Larceny Nell". Meanwhile, Amer…
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Buster is married with two children (both of whom wear child-sized versions of the same pork pie hat). He has built a large boat he has christened Damfino inside his home. When he finishes and decides to take the boat out to sea, he realiz…
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Satire, Splatstick, comedy film
A naive monk, Brother Ambrose, is sent by the abbot on a mission to raise $5000 in order to save their monastery from closing. He goes to Hollywood, where he encounters a number of eccentric characters. He is at first robbed and later befr…
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Splatstick, comedy film
left|thumb|thumbtime=67|Feet First (1930) Harold Horne, an ambitious shoe salesman in Honolulu, meets his boss's secretary Barbara, thinking that she is the boss's daughter, and tells her that he is a millionaire leather tycoon. Horne spen…
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thumb|thumbtime=5|The Scarecrow Buster plays a farmhand who competes with his housemate (Roberts) to win the love of the farmer's daughter (Sybil Seely). Running from a dog that he believes is rabid, he races around brick walls, jumps thro…
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Splatstick, comedy film
Two British Action Man travelling salesmen are sent to the South American country of Parazuellia to sell their goods. During the train journey, Eric accidentally opens a door leading to the death of the returning British educated Torres wh…
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thumb|thumbtime=25|Liberty (1929) Stan and Ollie, fugitives from prison, find themselves pursued by a police officer armed with a shotgun. Their escape leads them to encounter two accomplices in a car, where they hurriedly swap their priso…
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The store manager and the floorwalker are conspiring to rob the store's safe. Charlie enters the department store and annoys the staff with his antics, primarily taking a shave on the shaving product table. He has a fight with the floor ma…
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Komödie, Parodie, Satire, Satire On War, Splatstick, comedy film
A group of business executives play paintball war games over a weekend retreat, which turns into a battle of the sexes when the company's women are excluded from participation.
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Komödie, Splatstick
When she is a little girl Fiona's (Fiona Gordon) aunt Martha moves from a little village in Canada to Paris. Years later, Fiona receives a letter from her aunt Martha which asks her to come to Paris to help her since she is about to be for…
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Komödie, Splatstick, comedy film
Splatstick
thumb|thumbtime=5|Neighbors (public domain, full short)|left "The Boy" and "the Girl" are young lovers who live in tenements, the rear of which face each other, with backyards separated by a wooden fence. Their families constantly feud ove…
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Splatstick, buddy film, comedy film
Dancing instructors Laurel and Hardy inadvertently entangle themselves in a fraudulent insurance scheme devised by two impostor gangsters posing as insurance agents. Concurrently, the narrative unfolds around Grant Lawrence, a young invent…
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Komödie, Silly Movie, Splatstick
Splatstick, romantic comedy
Harold Hall, a young man with little or no acting ability, desperately wants to be in the movies. thumb|365x365px|Harold Lloyd in "Movie Crazy" ad from The Film Daily, 1932 After a mix-up with his application photograph, he gets an offer t…
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Buster plays a down-on-his-luck young man who decides to commit suicide after losing his job and his girl. After several inept attempts to end his life—and bolstered by whiskey disguised as poison—he joins an expedition to capture an armad…
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Charlie and Ben get wildly intoxicated at a hotel and drop a pie on a Dandy and a giant, which results in the both of them being throttled and tossed out of the building. They escape up to their rooms where in the hallway, they encounter a…
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Stan and Oliver, members of a municipal band, find themselves perpetually at odds with their conductor's direction, leading to their dismissal from both the band and their lodgings. In an attempt to earn a living, they resort to street per…
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The film begins with Mr. Flip, played by Ben Turpin, in a general store, in which he flirts with the woman behind the counter, for which he is carried out of the building on a hand truck. He travels to a manicurist where he eventually gets…
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Komödie, Silly Movie, Splatstick
The action starts in a park, where a man is trying to romance a matronly woman, wearing a fur stole. The man leaves to go to a concession stall, Cornucopias, and Charlie comes along in his infamous tramp costume and tries to give her a ros…
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Priscilla is married to an artist named Leon. However Leon has not been showing much interest in his wife, so she hatches a plot to win back his affections. Ollie plays the butler.
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We are told Charlie is a dental assistant working at Dr. Pain's dental office. He arrives at work where the patients are already waiting.
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