Clarence Budington Kelland
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Deeds (Adam Sandler) es un ingenuo provinciano que vive en un pueblo de New Hampshire. Como propietario de "Deeds’ Pizza", la única pizzeria del pueblo, se ha hecho muy popular por su particular manera de entretener a los clientes recitándoles sus insólitos poemas. La vida transcurre plácidamente hasta que recibe la noticia de que un pariente lejano le ha dejado una herencia de cuarenta billones de dólares, una cadena de medios de comunicación, un equipo de fútbol, un equipo de baloncesto y un helicóptero privado.
Short Story
Hilmi Tok is a billionaire businessman. He dies one day while driving his own car. His real estate assets goes his son Bayram.
Novel
The lawless west had never met a gun-throwing gent like...
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Scattergood Baines, Coldriver's most popular citizen, neighborly counselor and sly old fox, entices a Broadway producer to Coldriver to see the gay musical extravaganza Baines is staging for the benefit of the U.S.O. He is also promoting the singing career of his latest local protégé, Betty Palmer. There are a few problems but the Sage of Coldriver manages to keep pulling the right strings.
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Cuando el joven y serio Tommy Van Steel (Richar Carlson) decide por una vez irse de fiesta para celebrar su cumpleaños, el alcohol le juega una mala pasada y acaba la noche de local en local hasta que se ve envuelto en un asesinato. Infiltrado en una banda de malhechores, intentará desarticularla con la ayuda de una bella joven (Jane Randolph).
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Rural sage Scattergood Baines (Guy Kibbee) shows big-city newsman how to solve a mystery.
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When Martin Knox, a friend of Scattergood's who owns a horse-breeding farm, is killed in a harness race Scattergood tells Martin's son Dan that he will send him to college if he forgets about taking over his father's business, which was heavily mortgaged and has been put up for auction after Knox's death. The boy reluctantly agrees, but when he discovers that his favorite horse Starlight is sick, he decides to bring the animal back to health and then enter him in the Governor's Race, whose $5000 prize would enable Dan to pay off his father's mortgage and keep the business in the family.
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En 1868, el explorador del Ejército Johnny Ware es obligado a ayudar a los indios contra sus opresores blancos, pero escapa y se encuentra en la pedanía de Desert Center. Allí se cruza con Christine Larson, que está a punto de casarse con uno de los malvados agentes indios... pero no si Johnny puede evitarlo.
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Scattergood finds out that his neighbor, Elly Drew, is going to sell her home to support her son David, an aspiring playwright, who is in New York City trying to get his play produced. Scattergood decides to loan Elly the money but things are not as David has been telling his Mother...
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Small-town store owner Scattergood Baines helps a runaway boy find his father, who has escaped after being unjustly imprisoned, and a young chemist who is trying to invent a color television but is being opposed by his girlfriend's father, who wants the girl to marry a pharmacist like himself instead of some crazy inventor.
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Young Scattergood Baines arrives in the small New England town of Coldriver. Through some shrewd business maneuvering, he manages to open up a hardware store. Twenty years later he has become a prosperous and respected member of the community, a member of the local school board and the owner of a railroad that transports timber to the local sawmill. Problems begin to arise, however, when a young schoolteacher he has hired turns out to be not quite what he expected, and the mill owners pressure Scattergood to sell them his railroad, with the idea of raising the transportation fees paid to them by the local loggers.
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Phoebe (Jean Arthur) transforma ella sola un triste almacén en lo que ahora se conoce como Tucson, en Arizona, el orgullo del Oeste americano. Allí construye su rancho, que pronto será el más grande del territorio. Recién llegado de la ciudad, Peter Muncie (William Holden) comienza a trabajar en la propiedad de Phoebe entablándose entre ellos una relación que culmina con planes de boda. Pero el éxito del negocio de Phoebe no tarda en generar envidias y se cruza en su camino Jefferson Carteret (Warren William), un vecino que planea estafar a Phoebe y asesinar a Peter el día de su boda.
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A dull statistician changes his life after winning a pile of money after successfully determining the number of beans in a barrel. He decides to do something novel with the prize and ends up buying a barrel factory. He encounters trouble when the nearby pickle factory is threatened by a shyster attempting to close it.
Novel
Un tímido contable (Leslie Howard) trata de salvar de la bancarrota a un estudio de Hollywood con la ayuda de una sexy mujer (Joan Blondell) y un cínico productor de buen corazón (Humphrey Bogart).
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A country bumpkin becomes a singing sensation on the radio.
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A Florida-bound train is filled with romance and intrigue in this comedy. Among the passengers is a millionaire bon vivant carrying $1 million in diamonds.
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Un ingenuo joven de provincias (Gary Cooper) va a Nueva York para hacerse cargo de una herencia de veinte millones de dólares. Allí se enamora de una chica encantadora (Jean Arthur), sin saber que es la periodista que lo ridiculiza en sus artículos.
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Meek Eddie Pink becomes manager of an amusement park beset by mobsters.
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Harold Lloyd da vida a Ezekiel, el hijo de un misionero que ha vivido toda su vida en China, rodeado de buenos cuidados, e imbuido de la práctica religiosa y la sabiduría oriental. Pero cuando marcha a Estados Unidos, en busca de una buena chica con la que casarse, se encuentra una ciudad donde reinan la corrupción y las intrigas. Cuando llega, están a punto de celebrarse las elecciones a la alcaldía, perfectamente amañadas para que gane el de siempre. Pero, cuando el candidato, un hombre de paja, muere, creen que el ingenuo Ezekiel es el sustituto perfecto.
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La princesa Catterina se pone enferma de paperas justo antes de viajar a los Estados Unidos. Al ser un viaje fundamental para la supervivencia económica de su Reino, contrata a una actriz de enorme parecido físico con ella para que suplante su personalidad. Aunque nadie nota la farsa, todo se complica cuando el editor de un periódico quiere acompañar a la princesa en su gira americana...
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El intelectual e ingenuo profesor Post hereda una enorme cantidad de dinero y decide que es hora de salir y disfrutar de la vida. Se enamora de una bailarina de una mediocre función de teatro y decide comprar el espectáculo con su herencia para llevarlo a Broadway. (FILMAFFINITY)
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When Yvonne de Chausson comes home from a trip to France, she is told that her grandfather, lumber magnate Andre de Mersay, has been stricken with an undisclosed illness. He is sequestered in a room and his secretary refuses to allow Yvonne to see him. Her attempts to get to him are constantly thwarted and the plot thickens with the appearance of John Thorne, who purchases part of the family's land holdings without Yvonne's consent.
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Returning from France after the war, John Tabor informs Palma May of her brother's death and offers the penniless girl his help, but she refuses it, preferring to work as a cabaret dancer. Later, John and Palma meet again, marry, and go west to manage a lumber camp, as instructed by John's wealthy father, Jarvis Tabor. Displeased by John's choice of wife, the elder Tabor tests the couple with difficult living conditions, which eventually discourage Palma, and she accepts the party invitation of Keith Merwyn, manager of the cabaret where she starred. Meanwhile, Merwyn effects a disturbance among the lumbermen, endangering John.
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Gilead is a lumber town that is dominated by two branches of the Kidder family: the puritanical, ultra-conservative side led by Enoch and his son John, and the hedonistic branch led by Enoch's brother Aaron. Aaron plans to sway John to come over to his side by using a young girl who has lost her memory to lure him over, but when he kidnaps her John sets out to free her. Complications ensue.
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Gilead, Northern lumber town, has a line through its centre. On one side lives Enoch Kidder, his son John, and the rest of his puritanicql family. On the other are Aaron Kidder, vengeful brother, and his followers in pleasure and lust. An old feud culminates when Aaron tries to lure John, a clean-cut youth, over into the bad side of town, to revenge himself on Enoch (Moving Picture Weekly).
Novel
A society girl goes to live in the woods with her evil uncle and his wicked housekeeper.
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A young man of social standing chooses instead to live as a hobo. He gets work in a lumber camp, and there uncovers intrigue by German agents.
Writer
James Ashe sends his son James Jr. off to manage a family-owned logging mill. While attending to his duties, James Jr. falls in love with a beautiful girl.