Amatörfilmen (1922)
Genre : Drama, Romance
Runtime : 1H 5M
Director : Gustaf Molander
Synopsis
The jeweler Edmond gets a competitor, Mr. Snyder, who specializes in imitations. Snyder challenges him and claims he can make a perfect imitation of a pearl Edmond chooses.
Some of the boys from South Park Elementary find themselves on a balloon ride to an imaginary land. Upon their arrival they're faced with an unimaginable threat.
A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.
A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.
Hildy, the journalist former wife of newspaper editor Walter Burns, visits his office to inform him that she's engaged and will be getting remarried the next day. Walter can't let that happen and frames the fiancé, Bruce Baldwin, for one thing after another, to keep him temporarily held in prison, while trying to steer Hildy into returning to her old job as his employee.
A widowed mother and her son change when a mysterious stranger enters their lives.
A rich businessman makes a bet he can survive on the streets of a rough Los Angeles neighborhood for 30 days completely penniless. During his stay he discovers another side of life and falls in love with a homeless woman.
After a childhood of abuse by his evangelistic father, misfit Oscar Hopkins becomes an Anglican minister and develops a divine obsession with gambling. Lucinda Leplastrier is a rich Australian heiress shopping in London for materials for her newly acquired glass factory back home. Deciding to travel to Australia as a missionary, Oscar meets Lucinda aboard ship, and a mutual obsession blossoms. They make a wager that will alter each of their destinies.
A young man bets $10,000 that for 24 hour he can tell nothing but the truth.
Spendthrift Willie Hale again returns penniless to the family home in London. His father is none too pleased, but Willie smooth-talks him into letting him stay. At the same time he turns the charm on Dorothy Hope, whose father is big in linoleum and who, before Willie's arrival, was about to become engaged to a Russian aristocrat.
A young woman is torn between a wealthy suitor who wants her body and the honest young man who wants what's best for her.
The film centres around three friends who love their bachelorhood so much that they place a bet among themselves that whoever decides to marry first will lose a huge amount in shares that were contributed by all three. All is well until one decides to take the plunge and make a commitment.
The jeweler Edmond gets a competitor, Mr. Snyder, who specializes in imitations. Snyder challenges him and claims he can make a perfect imitation of a pearl Edmond chooses.
Two Marine pilots vie for romance and glory.
Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue of Buddha and wind up living each other's life.
In this comedy, two men make an extravagant $50,000 dollar bet that one of them will be able to successfully court a lovely woman with out spending any money. To foil his scheme, the other bettor hires two henchman to stop him.
A feisty Irish woman turns a truck driver into a championship boxer.
A man who believes that love is more animal and chemical than spiritual, bets that by controlling the circumstances, he can get any man and woman to fall for with each other and get engaged within a month.
Bright young novelist Mabel Vere is engaged to Gerald Wantage, a prig who angrily objects when she advertises for a husband in order to elicit ideas for her new book. Mabel's roommate, Maud Bray, a physical culture expert, frightens away the less desirable suitors, while the writer responds to the more interesting letters, and soon becomes embroiled in a number of adventures.
A small-town blowhard runs for water commissioner while fighting to win custody of his niece and nephew.