The Show Off (1926)
Genre : Comedy, Drama
Runtime : 1H 22M
Director : Malcolm St. Clair
Writer : Pierre Collings
Synopsis
A blowhard who poses as a railroad executive (but is really just a $30-a-week clerk) catches a young bride and then drives her family's finances to the brink of ruin.
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Jake and Kristy Briggs are newlyweds. Being young, they are perhaps a bit unprepared for the full reality of marriage and all that it (and their parents) expect from them. Do they want babies? Their parents certainly want them to. Is married life all that there is? Things certainly aren't helped by Jake's friend Davis, who always seems to turn up just in time to put a spanner in the works.
Gary, who has just married Samantha, the woman of his dreams, discovers that her six-year-old son may be the Antichrist.
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The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.
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