New ocean liner S.S. Gigantic is about to race its rival, the Colossal. Read More »
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Tillie and Gus (1933) Francis Martin, W.C. Fields, Alison Skipworth, Baby LeRoy
Tillie and Augustus Winterbottom are thought to be missionaries when they arrive to find Phineas Pratt Read More »
The Bank Dick (1940) Edward F. Cline, W.C. Fields, Cora Witherspoon, Una Merkel
Egbert Sousé leads an ordinary life but is about to have an extraordinary day. Read More »
Sally of the Sawdust (1925) D.W. Griffith, Carol Dempster, W.C. Fields, Alfred Lunt
Judge Foster throws his daughter out because she married a circus man. Read More »
Running Wild (1927) Gregory La Cava, W.C. Fields, Marie Shotwell, Mary Brian
Cowardly Elmer Finch is browbeaten by his wife, daughter, fat son and the family dog. After hypnosis he is domineering. Read More »
International House (1933) A. Edward Sutherland, W.C. Fields, Peggy Hopkins Joyce, Rudy Vallee
Professor Wong has invented a television and invites everyone to see it at China’s International House Hotel. Read More »
So’s Your Old Man (1926) Gregory La Cava, W.C. Fields, Alice Joyce, Charles ‘Buddy’ Rogers, Comedy
Poor glazier Sam Bisbee has invented break-proof glass. He intends to show it off to a convention of automobile men. Due to a mixup his car is switched with another and his demonstration toss of a brick simply breaks the car’s windshield. On the way home he thinks a woman is trying to commit suicide and so prevents her. The woman is really Princess Lescaboura, who arrives in Bisbee’s home town looking for him.
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You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man (1939) George Marshall, W.C. Fields, Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy, Comedy
Larson E. Whipsnade runs a seedy circus which is perpetually in debt. His performers give him nothing but trouble, especially Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy. Meanwhile, Whipsnade’s son and daughter, Phineas and Vicky, attend a posh college. Vicky turns down her caddish but rich suitor Roger Bel-Goodie, but changes her mind when she learns of her father’s financial troubles. Will Vicky marry for money or succumb to the ventriloqual charm of Edgar Bergen? Will Whipsnade’s Circus Giganticus make it over the state line one jump ahead of the sheriff?
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Million Dollar Legs (1932) Edward F. Cline, Jack Oakie, W.C. Fields, Andy Clyde, Comedy, Sport
A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a means of raising money. Either a masterpiece of absurdity or a triumph of satire, depending on your mood, but it’s quite possibly the funniest movie ever made, and becomes even funnier with subsequent viewings.
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