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| The Bank Dick | Egbert Sousé | 1940-11-29 | Egbert Sousé becomes an unexpected hero when a bank robber falls over a bench he’s occupying. Now considered brave, Egbert is given a job as a bank g… |
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| It’s a Gift | Harold Bissonette | 1934-11-30 | After he inherits some money, Harold Bissonette (“pronounced bis-on-ay”) decides to give up the grocery business, move to California and run an orange… |
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| You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man | Larson E. Whipsnade | 1939-02-17 | Fields plays “Larsen E. Whipsnade”, the owner of a shady carnival that is constantly on the run from the law. Whipsnade is struggling to keep a step a… |
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| Never Give a Sucker an Even Break | The Great Man | 1941-10-10 | Never Give a Sucker an Even Break is a 1941 film about a man who wants to sell a film story to Esoteric Studios. On the way he gets insulted by little… |
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| Poppy | Eustace McGargle | 1936-06-17 | Carny con artist and snake-oil salesman Eustace McGargle tries to stay one step ahead of the sheriff but is completely devoted to his beloved daughter… |
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| The Big Broadcast of 1938 | T. Frothingill Bellows / S.B. Bellows | 1938-02-11 | The Bellows family causes comic confusion on an ocean liner, with time out for radio-style musical acts…. |
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| The Golf Specialist | J. Effingham Bellweather | 1930-08-22 | At a Florida hotel, absconding miscreant J. Effingham Bellweather goes slapstick golfing with the house detective’s flirtatious wife and an incompeten… |
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| The Fatal Glass of Beer | Mr. Snavely | 1933-03-03 | The prodigal son of a Yukon prospector comes home on a night that “ain’t fit for man nor beast.”… |
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| The Dentist | Dentist | 1932-12-09 | An unconventional dentist deals with patients in slapstick fashion…. |
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| Pool Sharks | | 1915-09-19 | Two romantic rivals play a game of pool for the hand of their lady love. W.C. Field’s debut film…. |
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| The Pharmacist | Mr. Dilweg | 1933-04-21 | A henpecked but stoic pharmacist tries to maintain his precarious balance while dealing with demanding customers and his dysfunctional family…. |
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| The Barber Shop | Cornelius O’Hare | 1933-07-28 | An inept barber maintains his good-humored optimism in his small town shop despite having a hen-pecking harridan for a wife and a total lack of sartor… |
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| Man on the Flying Trapeze | Ambrose Wolfinger | 1935-08-03 | Hard-working, henpecked Ambrose Ambrose Wolfinger takes off from work to go to a wrestling match with catastrophic consequences…. |
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| Tillie and Gus | Augustus Winterbottom | 1933-10-13 | Tillie and Augustus Winterbottom are thought to be missionaries when they arrive to find Phineas Pratt trying cheat the Sheridans out of her father’s … |
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| You’re Telling Me! | Sam Bisbee | 1934-03-18 | Sam Bisbee is an inventor whose works (e.g., a keyhole finder for drunks) have brought him only poverty. His daughter is in love with the son of the t… |
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| So’s Your Old Man | Samuel Bisbee | 1926-10-25 | Gregory La Cava directs this comedy of errors, starring W.C. Fields as a hen-pecked, inebriated inventor who triumphantly creates unbreakable windshie… |
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| It’s the Old Army Game | Elmer Prettywillie | 1926-07-10 | Druggist Elmer Prettywillie is sleeping. A woman rings the night bell only to buy a two-cent stamp. Then garbage collectors waken him. Next it’s firem… |
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| Running Wild | Elmer Finch | 1927-06-10 | Cowardly Elmer Finch is browbeaten by his wife, daughter, fat son and the family dog. After hypnosis he is domineering. He enters a contract with a fi… |
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| Tillie’s Punctured Romance | Ring Master | 1928-03-03 | The ring master is plotting to get the circus owner done away with in a lion cage so he can take over…. |
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| The Old-Fashioned Way | The Great McGonigle / Squire Cribbs in ‘The Drunkard’ | 1934-07-13 | The Great McGonigle and his troupe of third-rate vaudevillians manage to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors and the sheriff…. |
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| W.C. Fields: 6 Short Films | | 2000-01-01 | A Criterion compilation of “six gems that feature the comic genius at his peak: The Golf Specialist, Pool Sharks (silent), The Pharmacist, The Fatal G… |
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| How to Break 90 #3: Hip Action | Himself | 1933-06-23 | Bobby Jones is playing golf with his buddies, oblivious to the fact that they are being watched by a drunken juggler…. |
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| The Potters | Pa Potter | 1927-01-15 | Pa Potter invests four thousand dollars in worthless oil stock. Or is it worthless?… |
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| Fools for Luck | Richard Whitehead | 1928-06-11 | Wealthy Sam Hunter is approached by scheming Richard Whitehead about investing in oil. There appears to be no oil, and everyone is angry until oil is … |
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| Two Flaming Youths | Gabby Gilfoil | 1927-12-17 | Sheriff Ben Holden is in love with hotel owner Madge Malarkey when down-and-out carnival man Gabby Gilfoil shows up hoping to take her for some money…. |
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| International House | Professor Quail | 1933-05-27 | Foreign investors converge on a luxury hotel in China to bid on a new kind of radioscope. But, this is a hotel where Burns and Allen are the in-house … |
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| My Little Chickadee | Cuthbert J. Twillie | 1940-02-09 | While on her way by stagecoach to visit relatives out west, Flower Belle Lee is held up by a masked bandit who also takes the coach’s shipment of gold… |
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| Mississippi | Commodore Jackson | 1935-03-22 | A young pacifist after refusing on principle to defend her sweetheart’s honor and being banished in disgrace, joins a riverboat troupe as a singer, ac… |
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| Million Dollar Legs | The President | 1932-07-08 | A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a means of raising money…. |
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| Sally of the Sawdust | Professor Eustance McGargle | 1925-08-01 | Judge Foster throws his daughter out because she married a circus man. She leaves her baby girl with Prof. McGargle before she dies. Years later Sally… |
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| W.C. Fields: Straight Up | | 1986-01-02 | Documentary directed by Joseph Adamson…. |
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| That Royle Girl | Professor Royle | 1925-12-07 | Joan Royle, beautiful but naive model who came from the slums, falls for Fred Ketlar, the leader of a dance band. When Fred’s estranged wife Adele is … |
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| Her Majesty, Love | Bela Toerrek | 1931-12-15 | The wealthy von Wellingens are shocked when the father of their son Fred’s fiancée Lia juggles desserts at a formal dinner. They encourage Fred to br… |
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| Six of a Kind | Sheriff John Hoxley | 1934-02-09 | The Whinneys share expenses for their trip to Hollywood with George and Gracie and their great Dane. A clerk in Whinney’s bank has put fifty thousand … |
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| Song of the Open Road | W.C. Fields | 1944-06-21 | A beautiful child star tires of life in the spotlight and so disguises herself and sneaks off to join a Civilian Conservation Corps camp to work with … |
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| The Circus: Premiere | Himself | 1928-01-13 | Footage from the premiere of Charlie Chaplin’s 1928 film ‘The Circus’…. |
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| Down Memory Lane | archive footage | 1949-08-01 | This film is a compilation, with narration by Steve Allen, of comedies from the old Mack Sennett silent studio. Sennett, himself, appears in a cameo a… |
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| Sensations of 1945 | W.C. Fields | 1944-06-30 | As dancer Ginny Walker performs on stage, a veiled woman in the audience stands up, accuses Ginny of stealing her husband and then fires a gun at her…. |
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| The Big Parade of Comedy | Wilkins Micawber in ‘David Copperfield’ (archive footage) | 1964-09-02 | Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM’s history…. |
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| The Hollywood Clowns | Archive Footage | 1979-03-23 | Glenn Ford narrates this hilarious look back at the greatest comedians in movie history…. |
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| Alice in Wonderland | Humpty-Dumpty | 1933-12-18 | In Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderland populated by even more fantastic characters…. |
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| If I Had a Million | Rollo La Rue | 1932-12-02 | An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory…. |
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| Janice Meredith | A British Sergeant | 1924-12-08 | It is 1774, the eve of the American War of Independence. Janice comes from a Tory household. She cavorts with American and British alike, is pursued b… |
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| Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch | Mr. Stubbins | 1934-10-28 | The Wiggs family plan to celebrate Thanksgiving in their rundown shack with leftover stew, without Mr. Wiggs who wandered off long ago an has never be… |
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| Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers! | Self (archive footage) | 1982-01-01 | A collection of bloopers and outtakes from an enormous selection of Hollywood classic productions spanning from the 1930s through the 1980s…. |
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| Follow the Boys | W. C. Fields | 1944-05-05 | During World War II, all the studios put out “all-star” vehicles which featured virtually every star on the lot–often playing themselves–in musical … |
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| David Copperfield | Wilkins Micawber | 1935-01-18 | Charles Dickens’ classic tale of an orphaned boy’s fight for happiness and the colorful characters who help and hinder him…. |
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| The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender | Self (archive footage) | 1997-11-01 | A film scrapbook, images, phrases from our past, hiding their meanings behind veils. Let’s lift those veils, one by one, to find how images, at one ti… |
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| Tales of Manhattan | Professor Pufflewhistle | 1942-08-05 | Ten screenwriters collaborated on this series of tales concerning the effect a tailcoat cursed by its tailor has on those who wear it. The video relea… |
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| Cavalcade of the Academy Awards | (archive footage) | 1940-07-31 | This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance speeche… |
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| Show-Business at War | Self | 1943-05-21 | A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort…. |
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| Hollywood: The Selznick Years | ‘David Copperfield’ (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1961-12-31 | Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in t… |
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| That’s Entertainment, Part II | (archive footage) | 1976-05-16 | Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical num… |
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| The Movie Orgy | Self (archive footage) | 1968-01-01 | Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and gov… |
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| Going Hollywood: The ’30s | (archive footage) | 1984-01-01 | Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually get… |
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| Hollywood My Home Town | Self (archive footage) | 1965-12-31 | Ken Murray narrates his 16mm home movies shot over 35 years in Hollywood…. |
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| Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage | Himself (archive footage) | 1983-02-25 | Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival fo… |
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| Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? | (archive footage) | 1975-08-06 | Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression…. |
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