Charles Dorety

Charles Dorety

Born: May 18, 1898
Died: April 2, 1950
in San Francisco, California, USA

Movies for Charles Dorety...

Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops
Title: Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops
Character: Watermelon Peddler
Released: February 2, 1955
Type: Movie
Harry and Willie are scammed into buying the Thomas Edison studio lot by a man named Gorman. They decide to follow Gorman's trail to Hollywood where, unbeknownst to them, he has taken the identity of a foreign film director. The lads wind up as stunt doubles in film the which Gorman is now shooting, while the conman tries to have the bungling pair done away with before they realize who he really is.
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Sister Kenny
Title: Sister Kenny
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: October 10, 1946
Type: Movie
An Australian nurse discovers an effective new treatment for infantile paralysis, but experiences great difficulty in convincing doctors of the validity of her claims.
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Swingin' on a Rainbow
Title: Swingin' on a Rainbow
Character: Soda Man (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1945
Type: Movie
A young girl goes to New York to find a band leader who has stolen all the songs she wrote and is passing them off as his own.
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Earl Carroll Vanities
Title: Earl Carroll Vanities
Character: Waiter
Released: April 5, 1945
Type: Movie
Broadway producer Earl Carroll was a Ziegfeld-like entrepreneur who staged lavish revues featuring attractive young ladies. Carroll's annual "Vanities" provided story material for three Hollywood films: Murder at the Vanities (34), A Night at Earl Carroll's (40) and Earl Carroll Vanities (45). This last film was produced by Republic Pictures, a bread-and-butter studio specializing in Westerns and serials; Republic had made musicals before, but few of them were expensive enough to allow for lavish production numbers. Earl Carroll Vanities is likewise rather threadbare, though some of the individual musical highlights aren't bad. The plot, such as it is, concerns financially strapped nightclub owner Eve Arden, who finagles Earl Carroll into staging one of his revues at her club.
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Beneath Western Skies
Title: Beneath Western Skies
Character: Drunk
Released: March 3, 1944
Type: Movie
To combat the lawlessness in her town, school teacher Carrie Stokes writes to her former students in search of a lawman. Johnny Revere arrives and starts to clean up the town. But things go bad when he is hit on the head and loses his memory.
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Bachelor Daze
Title: Bachelor Daze
Character: Dinner guest
Released: February 17, 1944
Type: Movie
Slim and Ezra are roommates and are wondering why they are still single. Ezra tells Slim that the local battle axe played by Minerva Urecal has a crush on him but Slim lacks the nerve to ask her to marry him.
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Crazy House
Title: Crazy House
Character: Duck Hunter
Released: October 8, 1943
Type: Movie
Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names evacuates the studio and terrorizes the management and personnel. Undaunted, the comedians hire an assistant director and unknown talent, and set out to make their own movie.
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Dizzy Pilots
Title: Dizzy Pilots
Character: Private (uncredited)
Released: September 24, 1943
Type: Movie
The Three Stooges, as the Wrong Brothers, aid the war effort by inventing a new plane in this below-average two-reel comedy. Actually, they are attempting to avoid the draft but when their plane, the Buzzard, fails miserably, they march off to war. Richard Fiske, formerly a busy supporting player in Stooges comedies, appears courtesy of stock footage from the earlier Boobs in Arms (1940). Ironically, Fiske had himself been drafted and would be killed in action in France in August of 1944.
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Slightly Dangerous
Title: Slightly Dangerous
Character: Workman (uncredited)
Released: April 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.
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Jackass Mail
Title: Jackass Mail
Character: Train Fireman
Released: July 1, 1942
Type: Movie
An unknowing orphan idolizes the horse thief/mail robber who has shot his father.
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Boobs in Arms
Title: Boobs in Arms
Character: (uncredited)
Released: December 27, 1940
Type: Movie
The stooges are greeting card salesmen who are mistakenly inducted into the army after escaping from the jealous husband of one of their customers. In bootcamp their sergeant turns out to be the same man, whom they constantly vex and bewilder. When the boys are sent to the front lines and the sergeant is captured they must rescue him, which they do after doping themselves with laughing gas. At the end they get shot off into the sunset on a cannon shell.
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The Green Archer
Title: The Green Archer
Character: Thug
Released: October 25, 1940
Type: Movie
The struggle over the Bellamy estate ends with Michael Bellamy accused of murder and killed on the way to prison, while his brother Abel Bellamy takes control of the estate for his own nefarious plans.
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When the Daltons Rode
Title: When the Daltons Rode
Character: Oklahoma Townsman
Released: August 23, 1940
Type: Movie
Young lawyer Tod Jackson arrives in pioneer Kansas to visit his prosperous rancher friends the Daltons, just as the latter are in danger of losing their land to a crooked development company. When Tod tries to help them, a faked murder charge turns the Daltons into outlaws, but more victims than villains in this fictionalized version. Will Tod stay loyal to his friends despite falling in love with Bob Dalton's former fiancée Julie?
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From Nurse to Worse
Title: From Nurse to Worse
Character: Dog Catcher (uncredited)
Released: August 23, 1940
Type: Movie
The stooge's friend Jerry convinces them to take out on insurance on Curly and then have him act insane to collect. Moe and Larry put Curly on a leash and take him to the insurance doctor and have him act like a dog. Unfortunately, the insurance doctor wants to perform a brain operation (Cerebrum decapitation). The boys try to escape by hiding in the dog catchers wagon, but are caught and taken to the hospital. They escape again, this time by rigging a sheet to a gurney and sailing down the street, where they run into Jerry and knock him into wet cement.
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We Who Are Young
Title: We Who Are Young
Character: Expectant Father (uncredited)
Released: July 19, 1940
Type: Movie
A man violates company policy by getting married.
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Nutty But Nice
Title: Nutty But Nice
Character: Pedestrian #3 (uncredited)
Released: June 14, 1940
Type: Movie
The stooges are singing comedic waiters, enlisted by two doctors to try and cheer up a depressed little girl, whose banker-father has gone missing with $300,000 worth of bonds.
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The Saint Takes Over
Title: The Saint Takes Over
Character: Ship Steward
Released: June 7, 1940
Type: Movie
The Saint Takes Over, released in 1940 by RKO Pictures, was the fifth motion picture featuring the adventures of Simon Templar, a.k.a. "The Saint" the Robin Hood-inspired crimefighter created by Leslie Charteris. This film focuses on the character of Inspector Henry Farnack. When Farnack is framed by a gang he is investigating, it is up to The Saint to clear his name.
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Money Squawks
Title: Money Squawks
Character: Truck Driver in Crash (uncredited)
Released: April 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Andy Clyde and Shemp Howard are station agents for the railroad. Their job is to defend against robberies but neither seems capable of doing anything but trouble. Through the course of the story, they shoot at some innocent hunters, are terrorized by a duck AND end up GIVING the money to the crooks by mistake. Can Andy and Shemp somehow redeem themselves?
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Nothing But Pleasure
Title: Nothing But Pleasure
Character: Roadside Workman
Released: January 19, 1940
Type: Movie
To save money, Buster and his wife decide to drive to Detroit to buy a new car, then drive it home.
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You Nazty Spy!
Title: You Nazty Spy!
Character: Storm Trooper (uncredited)
Released: January 19, 1940
Type: Movie
In this satire of the Nazis the Stooges are wallpaper hangers in the country of Moronica. When evil cabinet ministers overthrow the King, they decide to make Moe the new ruler as he'll be stupid enough to follow their orders. Moe becomes Dictator, Curly is a Field Marshal and Larry becomes Minister of Propaganda. After successfully preventing a female spy from committing mayhem, the boys are run out of office by a mob and eaten by lions.
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The Shadow
Title: The Shadow
Character: Henchman
Released: January 5, 1940
Type: Movie
The Shadow battles a villain known as The Black Tiger, who has the power to make himself invisible and is trying to take over the world with his death ray.
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Dick Tracy's G-Men
Title: Dick Tracy's G-Men
Character: Barge Thug
Released: September 2, 1939
Type: Movie
A mad doctor named Zanoff uses a drug to bring himself back from the dead after his execution in prison. Dick Tracy sets out to capture Zanoff before he can put his criminal gang back together again.
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Pest from the West
Title: Pest from the West
Character: Musician (uncredited)
Released: June 16, 1939
Type: Movie
A millionaire vacationing in Mexico falls for a local girl and sets out to win her.
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Mandrake the Magician
Title: Mandrake the Magician
Character: Mill River Inn Henchman
Released: May 6, 1939
Type: Movie
Mandrake and his team attempt to prevent "The Wasp" from stealing and using a new Radium invention.
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Lucky Night
Title: Lucky Night
Character: Fifty-Cent Passerby (uncredited)
Released: May 5, 1939
Type: Movie
Cora, an heiress who gives it all up for the excitement of looking for a job and living on her own, meets up with unemployed and flat broke Dick. The two of them embark on a wild night of gambling and winning, where everything they touch turns to gold. Pretty soon they're in love and, to the horror of Cora's father, married.
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An Hour for Lunch
Title: An Hour for Lunch
Character: Elevator Rider (uncredited)
Released: March 17, 1939
Type: Movie
Benchley shows how to budget one's time during lunch hour to get things done efficiently. Unfortunately, things don't go as planned.
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Three Little Sew and Sews
Title: Three Little Sew and Sews
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Released: January 6, 1939
Type: Movie
The stooges are sailors working in a ships' tailor shop. When they can't get passes to go ashore, they steal officers uniforms and go to a party with Curly passing himself off as Admiral Taylor and Moe and Larry as his aides. Two spies, one of them a beautiful woman, trick the stooges into stealing a new submarine. The boys turn the table on the spies and capture them. When the real Admiral shows up, Curly's reenacts the capture and accidentally detonates a bomb, blowing them all to kingdom come.
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Sue My Lawyer
Title: Sue My Lawyer
Character: Bailiff
Released: September 15, 1938
Type: Movie
Comedy. Although he lacks a law degree Harry persistently pesters District Attorney O.T. Hill for a job
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The Sitter Downers
Title: The Sitter Downers
Character: Man on Street (uncredited)
Released: November 26, 1937
Type: Movie
The stooges are suitors who go on a sit down strike when their prospective father-in-law refuses to consent the marriages. The strike wins them fame and they receive numerous gifts including a lot and a prefabricated house. They win the strike and get married, but the wives decree no honeymoon until the house is built. The boys have some problems with the construction, especially since Curly burned up the plans. The eventually finish the house, a monstrosity that collapses when one post is accidentally moved.
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Blossoms On Broadway
Title: Blossoms On Broadway
Character: Taxicab Driver (uncredited)
Released: November 19, 1937
Type: Movie
A young singer hopes to become a success on Broadway.
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Playing the Ponies
Title: Playing the Ponies
Character: Stunned Pepperino Eater (uncredited)
Released: October 15, 1937
Type: Movie
The stooges are gypped into trading their restaurant for "Thunderbolt", a washed up race horse. When Curly feeds Thunderbolt some chili pepperinos, he runs like crazy towards the nearest water. The boys enter Thunderbolt in a big race. With jockey Larry feeding Thunderbolt the pepperinos, and Moe and Curly on a motorcycle leading him with a bucket of water, they win the race.
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Calling All Doctors
Title: Calling All Doctors
Character: Pallbearer
Released: July 22, 1937
Type: Movie
Charley is a hypochondriac who is driving his family, his friends and his doctor crazy.
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Anything for a Thrill
Title: Anything for a Thrill
Character: Henchman Charlie
Released: June 15, 1937
Type: Movie
Despite his older brother's objections, a young man vows to become a newsreel cameraman.
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Back to the Woods
Title: Back to the Woods
Character: Indian (uncredited)
Released: May 14, 1937
Type: Movie
Set in colonial times, the stooges are convicted criminals who are banished from England to the American colonies. When they arrive, they find that the colonists are starving because the local Indians won't let them on their hunting grounds. The stooges go hunting any, and after a wild chase, are captured by the Indians. They escape and another wild chase ensues.
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3 Dumb Clucks
Title: 3 Dumb Clucks
Character: Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Released: April 17, 1937
Type: Movie
The stooges escape from jail when they learn their father, who has just become rich, is planning to leave their mother and marry a young girl. Curly is mistaken for the stooges father (he plays both parts) and marries the girl instead. When they learn that she is working with gangsters who plan to kill their father for his money, they escape and take their father with them.
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Dizzy Doctors
Title: Dizzy Doctors
Character: Orderly in Corridor (uncredited)
Released: March 19, 1937
Type: Movie
The Stooges get jobs selling "Brighto", what they think is cleaning fluid. After ruining a cop's uniform and a new car, they discover Brighto is actually medicine. Taking their sales pitch to a hospital, they get into more trouble and must leave on the run when the head of the hospital turns out to be the owner of the car they ruined.
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False Alarms
Title: False Alarms
Character: Mechanic (uncredited)
Released: August 16, 1936
Type: Movie
Three inept firemen try to avoid being fired by their increasingly exasperated chief.
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High Tension
Title: High Tension
Character: Taxi Driver
Released: July 10, 1936
Type: Movie
Brawling cable layer Steve Reardon doesn't want to marry girlfriend Edith but he also doesn't want her to date other men.
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Movie Maniacs
Title: Movie Maniacs
Character: Studio Employee (uncredited)
Released: February 20, 1936
Type: Movie
The stooges arrive in Hollywood hoping to make it in the movie business. They sneak into a movie studio where they are mistaken for three new executives who were due to arrive. After taking over production of a movie, causing the director and cast to walk off, Moe takes over as director, with Larry and Curly as the leading man and lady. When the real executives send a telegram explaining why they haven't arrived, the stooges must leave on the run.
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Gobs of Trouble
Title: Gobs of Trouble
Released: July 12, 1935
Type: Movie
Two sailors decide to settle down and get married, and live to regret it.
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Stage Frights
Title: Stage Frights
Released: June 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Two bumbling detectives help a stage actress who has been receiving threatening letters.
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Uncivil Warriors
Title: Uncivil Warriors
Character: Union Burglar (uncredited)
Released: April 26, 1935
Type: Movie
Set in the civil war, the stooges are spies for the north. They impersonate southern officers and infiltrate the enemy ranks to get valuable information. On the run when they are discovered, they hide in a cannon and are blown back to their northern headquarters.
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His Old Flame
Title: His Old Flame
Released: January 25, 1935
Type: Movie
Just as Charlie is running for mayor on a purity platform, an old flame threatens to show his torrid love letters to his wife if he does not withdraw from the campaign.
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Three Little Pigskins
Title: Three Little Pigskins
Character: Photographer (uncredited)
Released: December 8, 1934
Type: Movie
The stooges are mistaken by a gangster for the "Three Horsemen of Boulder Dam", famous football players. Hired to play for his team, they blow the big game and get it in the end. Lucille Ball has a nice part as a gun moll.
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Counsel on De Fence
Title: Counsel on De Fence
Released: October 24, 1934
Type: Movie
New lawyer Harry defends a woman charged with poisoning her husband.
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Going Bye-Bye!
Title: Going Bye-Bye!
Character: Man in Courtroom
Released: June 23, 1934
Type: Movie
In a packed courtroom, Butch Long vows revenge on 'squealers' Laurel and Hardy whose evidence has helped to send him to prison. Frightened, the boys plan to leave town and advertise for someone to share expenses with them. The woman who answers the ad is actually Butch's girlfriend. Meanwhile Butch escapes and hides in a trunk in his girlfriend's apartment where he gets locked inside. Not realizing who it is, Stan and Ollie finally manage to get the trunk open and then Butch exacts his revenge.
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Thundering Taxis
Title: Thundering Taxis
Character: Husband (uncredited)
Released: June 23, 1933
Type: Movie
Rival Taxi Companies compete for business and make a slapstick mess of everything.
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Asleep in the Feet
Title: Asleep in the Feet
Character: Dance Hall Patron (uncredited)
Released: January 21, 1933
Type: Movie
The girls moonlight as taxi dancers in order to earn some extra money.
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The Death Kiss
Title: The Death Kiss
Character: Bill
Released: December 5, 1932
Type: Movie
When a movie actor is shot and killed during production, the true feelings about the actor begin to surface. As the studio heads worry about negative publicity, one of the writers tags along as the killing is investigated and clues begin to surface.
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Scram!
Title: Scram!
Character: Defendant
Released: September 10, 1932
Type: Movie
Ordered out of town by angry Judge Beaumont, vagrants Stanley and Oliver meet a congenial drunk who invites them to stay at his luxurious mansion. The drunk can't find his key, but the boys find a way in, sending the surprised woman inside into a faint.
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The Promoter
Title: The Promoter
Character: Trainer
Released: May 13, 1932
Type: Movie
Benny Rubin promotes a wrestling show but ends up wrestling Constantine "Strangler" Romanoff himself.
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Guests Wanted
Title: Guests Wanted
Character: Second Miner
Released: January 11, 1932
Type: Movie
Benny Rubin is a New York City vaudeville performer who inherits a hotel in California, and takes all of his ham-actor friends there, as chefs, bellhops, maids and waiters, to help him run it. BUsiness is bad so Benny plants a story that his late uncle hid his fortune in the hotel. The place is soon filled with guests who tear down the hotel looking for the non-existent fortune.
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Moonlight and Cactus
Title: Moonlight and Cactus
Released: January 10, 1932
Type: Movie
The owner of a medicine show falls for a young beauty who is in love with someone else.
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The Tamale Vendor
Title: The Tamale Vendor
Released: November 26, 1931
Type: Movie
The Tamale Vendor is a 1931 Comedy short.
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Queenie of Hollywood
Title: Queenie of Hollywood
Character: Impersonator (uncredited)
Released: November 8, 1931
Type: Movie
Three girls apply for maid jobs at a resort but are taken for royalty when a telegram about their dog Queenie is intercepted. Film producers vie to put them under contract but selling a script idea finally saves them when the bill comes due.
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The Lure of Hollywood
Title: The Lure of Hollywood
Released: July 5, 1931
Type: Movie
Two aspiring actresses encounter mishaps during a shoot.
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Crashing Hollywood
Title: Crashing Hollywood
Released: April 5, 1931
Type: Movie
Crashing Hollywood is a 1931 Comedy short.
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Laughing Gravy
Title: Laughing Gravy
Character: Drunk (uncredited)
Released: April 4, 1931
Type: Movie
Stan and Ollie try to hide their pet dog Laughing Gravy from their exasperated, mean tempered landlord, who has a "No Pets" policy.
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The Pip from Pittsburg
Title: The Pip from Pittsburg
Character: Dancer
Released: March 21, 1931
Type: Movie
Charley agrees to go on a blind date to help out his roommate. But because his last such date turned out badly, he goes all out trying to make himself look bad. He refuses to shave, wears his friend's old suit and even eats garlic. Unfortunately for him, however, his date turns out to be the lovely Thelma Todd.
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Came the Dawn
Title: Came the Dawn
Character: The Gimplewort Son
Released: March 3, 1928
Type: Movie
Papa, Mama, Daughter and Son Gimplewort move into their new house. Two movers are talking to each other about the murder of a saxophone player that took place in the house. They say his ghost still roams the house. Night comes and every noise and creak in the house scares the papa, mama and son (the daughter is out on a date). The Mover gives the daughter a parrot saying "It's a religious parrot – I bought it from a sailor". At any rate, the parrot gets into the act by yelling scaring Papa and Son who have come down looking for the source of the noise. Later Daughter and Remover return from a costume party and sneak into the house. The young man is dressed in a skeleton outfit and the fun continues. There has been film reconstruction in a number of places, particularly the last third of the film. In many cases there is a photograph depicting the scene being described.
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All for Uncle
Title: All for Uncle
Character: Ike
Released: October 19, 1927
Type: Movie
Second Episode in the "Mike and Ike" two-reel comedy series and Ike is about to get married, wanting Mike to be his best man.
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Jane's Sleuth
Title: Jane's Sleuth
Character: Oscar
Released: June 22, 1927
Type: Movie
Jane's Sleuth is a 1927 silent film. Eleventh episode in the What Happened to Jane 2-reel comedy series
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Are Golfers Cuckoo?
Title: Are Golfers Cuckoo?
Character: Cholly
Released: February 2, 1926
Type: Movie
Charles Dorety and Gene Layman play two poor idiots who decide to become caddies to make some extra money. Despite having no money, they soon seem to forget and end up accepting a challenge by some golfers, as they can't afford this bet and they are supposed to be caddying for money, not acting like members of the country club.
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Table Steaks
Title: Table Steaks
Character: Charlie
Released: February 22, 1922
Type: Movie
A silent film featuring Brownie the Dog.
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Hold Your Breath
Title: Hold Your Breath
Released: August 31, 1921
Type: Movie
Charles and Bert who have defied the Volstead act are seen clambering about the roof of a building, high above a busy street. After a few hair-raising stunts that will give nervous ones in your audience a jolt. Bert demands money that Charles owes him. They end a fast chase on the roof of a building overlooking a lion's den. Here Bert slips down the roof in among the beasts and Bert lowers a flag to half mast, supposing of course this is the end of his pal. But to his astonishment Charles not only comes out alive but is seen reclining comfortably on one of the biggest lions.
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The High Sign
Title: The High Sign
Character: Gang Member
Released: April 18, 1921
Type: Movie
Buster is thrown off a train near an amusement park. There he gets a job in a shooting gallery run by the Blinking Buzzards mob. Ordered to kill a businessman, he winds up protecting the man and his daughter by outfitting their home with trick devices.
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Don't Park Here
Title: Don't Park Here
Character: An Auto Thief
Released: May 19, 1920
Type: Movie
Not one but two of Charlie Chaplin impersonators, Harry Mann and Monty Banks, a film directed by Charley Chase still under the name of Charles Parrott. They go driving around town experiencing various car theft problems.
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A Twilight Baby
Title: A Twilight Baby
Released: January 24, 1920
Type: Movie
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Looney Lions and Monkey Business
Title: Looney Lions and Monkey Business
Character: Light-Fingered Luke
Released: April 23, 1919
Type: Movie
The adventures of an escaped convict.
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His Musical Sneeze
Title: His Musical Sneeze
Character: Baron Charles Peabody
Released: February 22, 1919
Type: Movie
A young man goes into the woods to hunt rabbits, and winds up getting mixed up with a dog, a lion and a beautiful woman.
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A Family Affair
Title: A Family Affair
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A 1921 Comedy short directed by Alfred J. Goulding, featuring Keystone Studios canine superstar Keystone Teddy the Wonder Dog.