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63
7.2
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68
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3.6
/2447/
84
/795/

A Chump at Oxford (1940)
The boys get jobs as a butler and maid-- Stan in drag-- for a dinner party. When that ends in disaster, they resort to sweeping streets and accidentally capture a bank robber. The grateful bank president sends them to Oxford, at their request, and higher-education hijinks ensue.
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Criterion Channel
59
37
6.6
/1562/
60
/30/
63
/37/
3.2
/1377/
45
/62/

Haunted Spooks (1920)
After numerous failed attempts to commit suicide, our hero (Lloyd) runs into a lawyer who is looking for a stooge to stand in as a groom in order to secure an inheritance for his client (Davis). The inheritance is a house, which her scheming uncle "haunts" so that he can scare them off and claim the property.
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68
36
6.9
/1253/
65
/19/
65
/28/
3.4
/769/
71
/78/

From Hand to Mouth (1919)
As a penniless man worries about how he will manage to eat, he is joined by a young waif and her dog, who are in the same predicament. Meanwhile, across town a dishonest lawyer is working with a gang of criminals, trying to swindle an innocent young heiress out of her inheritance. As the heiress is on her way home from the lawyer's office, she notices the young man and the waif in the midst of their latest problem with the authorities, and she rescues them. Later on, the young man will have an unexpected opportunity to repay her for her kindness.
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Criterion Channel
63
26
6.4
/699/
62
/11/
60
/19/
3.2
/1634/

Take a Chance (1918)
It's a classic boy-meets-girl story, boy-loses-girl, boy gets mistaken for an escaped convict and ruthlessly chased by armies of cops across the countryside in a thrill-packed stunt-addled climax.
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Criterion Channel
58
19
6.1
/517/
57
/12/
58
/16/
2.9
/1130/

The Marathon (1919)
Boy trying to impress girl, gets chased by her father and the police right into an ongoing marathon.
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Criterion Channel
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12
6.1
/420/
75
/4/
58
/6/
3.2
/746/

By the Sad Sea Waves (1917)
Our vagabond hero dons a lifeguard's uniform and madcap antics ensue on the beach, and in the changing stalls!
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Criterion Channel
65
11
6.4
/329/
63
/3/
69
/5/
3.2
/735/

Bashful (1917)
In order to claim his inheritance, our hero must first produce a wife and family.
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6.6
/14/

Smith's Candy Shop (1927)
13th release in 'The Smith Family' series of 2-reel comedies. The Smiths at the candy shop.
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5.0
/11/

Knee Deep In Music (1933)
A canned fish tycoon wants a smash hit song to sell his fish. Ruth Etting is the perfect singer - but can they find a song worthy of her?
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50
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5.1
/187/
40
/1/
60
/1/

Hot News Margie (1931)
Margie is a reporter on a tabloid newspaper. Her assignment is to find out whether there is any truth to the rumor that college football star Babe Booth is secretly married. To get her story, she goes to the stadium where Booth is playing and gets involved in the game, with unexpected results.
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6.6
/18/

Smith's Picnic (1926)
The accident-prone Smith family (Raymond McKee, Ruth Hiatt, and Mary Ann Jackson) head to the beach in this Mack Sennett comedy directed by Alf Goulding. There they spoil a picnic held by "The Optimist's' Club," quickly turning the members into pessimists. This reconstructed version features racy scenes of starlet Mildred June in lingerie and having her bathing suit torn off by a fishing pole that were only included in prints shown in Germany.
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5.7
/63/

Smith's Pony (1927)
The Smith's visit San Francisco to attend a horse show only to have their precocious daughter cause some minor comical mishaps and their over-sized canine refusing to obey commands.
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5.5
/20/

Good Morning Sheriff (1930)
When the mayor fires the lazy sheriff, lucky Lloyd happens to be at the wrong place at the wrong time and ends up with a star badge on his chest. He takes the job to impress the mayor's comely daughter.
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5.4
/18/
70
/1/

One Good Turn (1936)
In this comedy a pair of aspiring music hall entertainers attempt to live their dream while saving their landlady's daughter from ruin.
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5.2
/28/

Grab the Ghost (1920)
As tens of guests pile out of a wedding ceremony a jilted and bitter rival (Eddie Boland) vows revenge on the new bride. The wedding limo pulls off leaving the groom (Snub Pollard) behind, who then has to chase it down the street. He catches it up but is made to sit on the back of the car "as ballast". The car comes to a halt where the groom mistakes a policeman's gesturing of traffic as an offer of a handshake. Finally, the groom arrives at his house where his servant greets him, but unbeknownst to him, the servant's child (Ernest Morrison) has set up a scare in the shape of an "angora" bird in a cage under the dinner table before they get there.
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5.3
/22/
10
/1/
35
/1/

High Rollers (1921)
An auto accident hurls Snub into a skating rink, where he encounters Rowe and Marie. Among the various slip-and-falling going on, two frisky escaped monkeys from a show put on skates to join in and create pandemonium.
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5.2
/13/
40
/1/

Park Your Car (1920)
A once-act farce about two neighbours who purchase a car that they can use to go on drives with their wives.
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5.6
/13/
70
/1/

An Old Spanish Onion (1935)
Ruth Etting sings "Ay, Ay, Ay" in this 1935 film with Mario Álvarez, along with other songs.
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6.7
/46/
60
/1/

Everything Is Rhythm (1936)
Based on the spectacular rise of bandleader and vaudevillian Harry Roy, this is the comic tale of a Ruritanian princess who elopes with a dance-band leader.
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6.6
/17/

Musclebound Music (1926)
Bill and Oscar are musicians but they can't make enough to pay their room-and-board, and they are both in love with the landlady's daughter. However, she is in love with Horace, a wrestler, and Bill gets a world's championship match with him in hopes of securing the needed-boardinghouse bill, and the hand of the daughter of the house.
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6.8
/48/
50
/1/

Believe It or Not (Second Series) #10 (1932)
This omnibus of film clips include a Savanna golf course made from Civil War trenches, wooden Indians used ourside cigar stores, an American Indian artist from South Dakota who paints upside down, the smallest residence house, a Bronx River statue with mysterious Civil War origins, the Ocean Grove community in New Jersey that closes on Sundays and a futuristic automated parking garage. Vitaphone No. 1364.
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6.1
/48/
50
/1/

Believe It or Not (Second Series) #9 (1932)
In this short film, Robert L. Ripley introduces narrator Leo Donnelly who presents various "Believe It or Not" oddities from around the world as gathered by Ripley. Segments include a NYC clothier that caters to very large men and circus elephant grooming. Vitaphone No. 1363.
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6.3
/42/
50
/1/

Believe It or Not (Second Series) #8 (1932)
Robert Ripley presents a well-dressed cocktail party an assortment of drawings and film clips showing the world's youngest parents and the largest bible. Vitaphone No. 1362.
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6.4
/53/
50
/1/

Believe It or Not (Second Series) #7 (1932)
Robert Ripley gives a show aboard a luxury liner at sea, starting with drawings discussing the origin of the "fathom" and Christopher Columbus being banished from America.
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6.9
/13/

A Yank in Australia (1942)
Two rival newspaper editors in New York send journalists to the South Pacific to dig up new material.
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5.4
/7/

When Do We Eat? (1934)
When the members of a theatrical troupe find themselves in financial trouble, they decide to open a nudist restaurant.
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6.0
/38/

Poisoned Ivory (1934)
Edgar's wife, Florence, because of an incident with her brother, her husband, and parts from her brother's photogenic set, mistakenly thinks that she accidentally poisoned Edgar instead of giving him his real medicine.
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5.5
/81/

Such Is Life (1924)
A feisty homeless orphan girl struggles with winter cold and hunger.
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5.6
/25/

Prize Puppies (1930)
Needy Ham Hamilton is mistaken for a dog show judge and he takes advantage of the situation for material gain.
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6.1
/22/

Toot Sweet! (1929)
Ham is interested in a girl named Marie and wants to impress her. First he buys a car and then he takes her out to a swanky nightclub. During the course of this disastrous date Ham realizes that Marie isn't the nice girl he thought she was: she only went out with him to make her real boyfriend jealous. The boyfriend is a dancer at the club, and when she sees him kissing his dance partner she becomes enraged and smashes up the place, while poor Ham is stuck with the bill.
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5.4
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/5/

Ring Up the Curtain (1919)
Stage hand Harold falls in love with the leading lady of a visiting theatrical troupe.
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5.2
/19/
50
/1/

Heap Big Chief (1919)
Harold and Snub, camping in the wilds, prove too much for the Indians that take them captive.
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5.7
/64/
46
/4/

Step Lively (1917)
Snub Pollard plays a drunken man-about-town who believes Harold has robbed him. Meanwhile, Bebe has her hands full with a lounge lizard who won't take no for an answer.
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58
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5.7
/200/
70
/4/
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/4/

All Aboard (1917)
In order to get his daughter away from her suitors, her father decides to spirit her away to Bermuda. Our hero, however, stows away on the ship. When discovered, he is credited with catching a crook, thus winning a reward and the girl.
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57
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5.7
/239/
60
/3/
55
/6/

Don't Shove (1919)
Harold and his rival fight over Bebe on her birthday, first at her home and then at a nearby skating rink.
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Criterion Channel
67
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6.4
/260/
90
/3/
50
/2/
3.3
/440/

Look Pleasant, Please (1918)
A photo studio operator seems only interested in flirting with women. Hilarity ensues.
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7.5
/93/
65
/4/
90
/2/

Hey, Pop! (1932)
Roscoe Arbuckle loses his job to protect a young boy from the orphanage.
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5.5
/30/
60
/1/

The Rodeo (1929)
The film begins with a family at home having a meal. The biggest laugh involved some candles being substituted for asparagus and the hilarity that resulted when the people and dog at them. Later, the decide to go to the rodeo but 1001 problems occur on the way there in the car.
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5.7
/60/
55
/2/
55
/4/

Follow the Crowd (1918)
A clueless man finds a bomb on the street and keeps throwing it to the crowd around him. The sketch then moves with the clueless nerd getting involved in all sorts of troubles until he accidentally gets into a hideout from a terrorist group that will complicate things for him more than he ever hoped.
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5.9
/83/
100
/1/

The Pride of Pikeville (1927)
Unlikely Lothario, the less-than-dashing crossed-eyed Ben Turpin, finds himself pursued by many beautiful ladies.
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7.6
/17/

The Swim Princess (1928)
The Swim Princess is a silent comedy short.
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5.6
/6/

Smith's Cook (1927)
The Smiths' cook, exasperated by giving up her day off in order to cook for an unappreciative guest, decides to leave her employment in order to get married. But when Mr Smith and his family set out to drive her across town to her bridegroom, everything goes wrong.
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6.6
/16/

Big Game (1921)
While attempting to hunt a formidable Peruvian Duck, Snub Pollard and Ernest Morrison inadvertently come to the aid of a kidnapped tourist.
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6.7
/20/

Sweetie (1923)
A Baby Peggy two-reeler
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50
/1/

Pipe the Whiskers (1918)
Our hero is a janitor in a old age rest home who actually runs the place.
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65
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6.2
/209/
66
/3/
69
/7/
3.3
/208/

Hey There (1918)
In this early short Harold Lloyd sneaks into a movie studio in order to locate an attractive young lady he's just met at a snack bar. He's retrieved a letter she dropped and wants to return it to her, but it's pretty clear that his interest extends beyond mere politeness. (She's the adorable young Bebe Daniels, so this is easy to understand.) The movie studio setting provides Harold with lots of opportunities to do what comedians do in comedies like this one: flirt with actresses, anger the studio brass, and dash through sets disrupting everything.
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4.5
/48/
50
/1/

The Naggers' Day of Rest (1931)
It's Sunday, and as usual a wife is nagging her husband, this time about the whereabouts of the Sunday newspaper which she's sure he's hiding from her. The husband is just as irritated by her nagging since this time it is interfering with him trying to take a shave and brush his teeth. Their argument extends to what belongs to whom and what each person contributes to the household. They end up doing things and making remarks just to irritate the other. Their argument reaches a whole different level when a pretty neighbor gets peripherally involved.
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4.2
/100/
80
/1/

Hot Sands (1931)
In this short film, a newlywed couple drive into Death Valley and wind up gambling for their life.


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