
Silent comedic short by Mikio Naruse


Silent comedic short by Mikio Naruse
1930-01-21
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0.019th release in 'The Smith Family' series of 2-reel comedies.
5.5Compilation of comedy sketches from the comedy kings Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Danny Kaye & Bing Crosby.
10.0Anna works at a bookstore. Lucas is suddenly very interested in books. A romantic comedy in which Chaplin meets the Nouvelle Vague.
5.0A series of family entanglements develop around the changing will of Roger Bernhuses de Sars (Karl Mantzius), who wants his heritage to go to his illegitimate daughter Blenda (Greta Almroth). But love and fate also plays their cards. One of the most surprising films of Sjöström, close to Stroheim and some of the silent comedies of Lubitsch. Belonging to the golden age of Swedish film, this comedy offers one of the earliest explorations of the relationship between masters and servants on the screen, later developed by French masters like Renoir and Guitry. After acting in the diptych of Thomas Graal, Sjöström shows that he also dominates the “light genre” as director.
A quarrelling couple are forced to quarantine together after the household maid becomes ill of an infectious disease.
8.0A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meager skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.
An 1895 British short black and white silent comedy film featuring two drunken men and a boy squabbling in a small bar.
5.0A photo studio operator seems only interested in flirting with women. Hilarity ensues.
6.3Re-imagined version of the now lost first Finnish film. Two siblings inherit all the essentials for a good life: moonshine equipment and a pig. As they embark on their journey, business is good until a card shark arrives.
0.0A naive young man joins the Army in order to become a pilot.
2.8Mr. and Mrs. Hilton throw a New Year's Eve party. They agree not to drink the punch themselves, but as guests begin to arrive their resolve weakens, and soon they are both cavorting drunkenly. Next morning Mr. Hilton, feeling very sick, is conscience-stricken over his drunkenness and his behavior with another woman. He fears to face his wife until he discovers that she feels just as guilty herself.
5.0At a dinner party, a hostess serves her guests a dish made using meat from a bull. While most of them enjoy the meal, one man has a strange reaction: Taking a set of horns off the wall, he attaches them to his head and sets off on a rampage. After destroying the house and terrifying his hostess, her guests, maid, and neighbours, he takes to the streets. The police sends a telegraph to Spain asking for help, and in response a parade of matadors arrive in Paris, ready to slay the crazy beast-man. However, soon after the man-bull fight begins, the errant guest comes to his senses and is taken into custody by waiting policemen.
5.0At Thanksgiving, a tramp arrives in a homeless-hostile town.
7.1One of the "Out of the Inkwell" series of silent short films featuring a combination of live action and hand-drawn animation.
7.6Two young brothers become the leaders of a gang of kids in their neighborhood.
0.0An American on his honeymoon in Paris, organises the kidnapping of his interfering mother-in-law.
3.2A lost animated short centered on Oswald the Lucky Rabbit's disadventures in the Moroccan desert. Some drawings survived and were put together in an animated clip.
6.4A masked criminal who dresses like a giant bat terrorizes the guests at an old house rented by a mystery writer.
5.6A general store clerk and aspiring detective investigates a mysterious disappearance that took place quite close to an empty insane asylum.