Ellis Parker Butler

Nacimiento : 1869-12-05, Muscatine, Iowa, USA

Muerte : 1937-09-13

Películas

Pigs Is Pigs
Original Story
Flannery, a railway agent does everything by the book. He gets into a scrape with a customer, McMorehouse, who wants to pay 44 cents freight for two guinea pigs which he considers pets. Flannery, however, considers them pigs (freight 48 cents), a decision he begins to regret when the animals begin to reproduce.
The Great American Pie Company
Original Story
In this comedic short, two pie vendors discuss merging their businesses, but one of them may have an ulterior motive.
El hombre de la navaja
Novel
Un anciano solitario, Peter Lane, ex-capitán de un barco fluvial, vive solo en una barcaza. Una noche, durante una fuerte tormenta, una mujer enferma y su hijo, Buddy, buscan refugio en su barcaza. Cuando ella muere, Peter se queda con el niño. Para entretener al niño, Peter talla animales de madera, ganándose el corazón del pequeño.