Elmer Raguse
출생 : 1901-05-09, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
사망 : 1972-03-02
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RAGUSE, ELMER (Elmer Roy Raguse) Born May 9, 1901, Springfield, Massachusetts. A ham radio enthusiast at 16, Raguse was a chief telegraph
operator on ships for the Marconi Wireless Company before joining the phonograph record industry in 1924. He designed the first electrical recording system for Bell Telephone and installed it for Columbia Records and the Victor Talking Machine Company, which hired him as Assistant Supervisor of Recording; Raguse designed and built portable recording equipment used by Victor around the world. In 1928, Elmer supervised the recording of music and effects scores for the last of the L&H and Our Gang silents at Victor’s studios in Camden, New Jersey. He was sent to the Roach studios in Culver City to install sound recording equipment, and also insulate and redesign the stages. Raguse worked on 30 L&H films, sometimes without credit, and also recorded the sound for most of the foreign-language pictures. He remained as chief sound engineer until Henry Ginsberg fired him in a cost-cutting move in December 1931. Raguse worked at Fox and for radio producer C.P. MacGregor until Roach rehired him in January 1934; he remained there through 1957. He then worked for Desilu and finally returned to theatrical films with 20th Century-Fox. He retired to Florida in 1967. His work on Topper, Of Mice and Men, and other films earned him five Oscar nominations for sound recording and two for special effects. Elmer’s brother Roy and nephew Richard also worked at the Roach studio. Died of heart failure March 2, 1972, Palm Beach, Florida; age 70.
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제2차 세계 대전이 끝나가는 1944년 이탈리아 북부에 있는 한 연합군 포로 수용소에 폭격 임무중 격추되어 포로가 된 미공군의 조셉 라이언 대령이 오게 된다. 이 포로 수용소에는 영국군과 미군이 함께 수용되어 있는데 패전을 예상한 이탈리아군이 관리 책임을 맡고 있지만, 독일군의 강압적인 태도에 불만을 품고 연합군 포로들에게 우호적이다. 상급자인 라이언 대령은 자연스럽게 연합군 포로들의 지휘관이 되는데 마침 이탈리아에는 정변이 일어나 무솔리니가 실각하고 이탈리아 정부는 연합군과 협상을 하려한다. 포로 수용소의 연합군 포로들도 이 소식을 듣고 기뻐하지만 독일군은 이탈리아 북부를 재빨리 점령하고 포로수용소도 접수한다. 그리고 연합군 포로들을 독일 본토로 이동시키는 계획을 수립하고 포로들을 열차 편으로 수송하기 시작하는데, 이를 알게 된 연합군 포로들은 라이언 대령의 지휘로 수송열차를 탈취해서 중립국인 스위스로 탈출하려고 한다. 알프스 산중에서 수송열차를 탈취한 포로들은 곧 독일군의 대대적인 공격을 받게 되고 격전 끝에 가까스로 국경을 넘는데 성공하지만 지휘관인 라이언 대령은 독일군에게 사살된다.
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During the Cold War, John Goldfarb crashes his spy plane in the Middle East and is taken prisoner by the local government. His captor, King Fawz, soon discovers that Goldfarb used to be a college football star. So he issues him an ultimatum: coach his country's football team, or Fawz will surrender him to the Russians. Goldfarb teams up with undercover reporter Jenny Ericson, and together they plot to escape their dangerous situation.
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A trio of gorgeous American tourists hope to find love while vacationing in Spain. Secretary Maggie Williams falls hard for a married newsman named Paul Barton while fighting off the advances of one of his employees. Singer Fran Hobson sets her sights on a handsome European doctor. And coed Susie Higgins receives an unexpected proposal from smooth-talking womanizer Emilio Lacaya.
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When a cavorting Hollywood writer is killed by the angry husband of a woman he was having an affair with, he comes back as a spirit in the form of a beautiful woman and moves in with his/her best friend as a base operation for enacting sweet revenge.
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루이자(셜리 맥클레인 분)는 2억 달러의 재산을 가진 미망인이다. 그녀는 결혼하는 남자들마다 바로 죽어 버려 점점 부자가 되어 버린 신기한 운명의 여자. 자신이 저주받았다고 생각하고 자신의 전재산을 정부에 기부하려고 하는 루이자는 자신의 이야기를 정신과 의사인 스티븐슨(로버트 커밍스 분)에게 털어놓는다. 루이자의 이야기는 젊었을 때로 돌아간다. 당시 루이자는 돈 많은 바람둥이 레너드 크롤리(딘 마틴 분)와 가난하지만 점잖은 에드가 호퍼(딕 반 다이크 분) 중 한 남자를 택해야 하는 상황에 있었다. 그녀는 에드가를 택했고 에드가는 루이자에게 좋은 집과 풍족한 삶을 제공하기 위해 열심히 일해 부자가 된다. 하지만 그런 과정에서 그는 과로로 숨지게 되고 낙담한 루이자는 파리로 떠난다. 파리에서 고국을 떠나 살고 있는 미국인 화가 래리 플린트(폴 뉴먼 분)와 사랑을 하게된다. 래리는 소리를 이용해 그림을 그리는 기계를 만들어 엄청난 부자가 되는데 그 역시 유명세를 탄 후 곧 죽는다. 루이자는 다시 미국으로 돌아와 로드(로버트 미첨 분)와 결혼해서 자신의 불운을 깨 보려고 한다. 로드는 사업계의 거물로 이미 많은 돈을 가지고 있다. 루이자와 결혼한 로드는 좀더 편안한 생활을 위해 농부가 되기로 결심하지만 황소와 부딪쳐 목숨을 잃게 된다. 루이자는 절망에 빠져 어느 날 밤 허름한 술집에서 2류 배우인 제리(진 켈리 분)를 만난다. 그들은 결혼하고 루이자 덕에 부자가 된 제리는 스타가 되는데...
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A private investigator endures the rigors of an insane asylum in order to locate $1 million in stolen loot.
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Three years into their loving marriage, with two infant daughters at home in Los Angeles, Nicholas Arden and Ellen Wagstaff Arden are on a plane that goes down in the South Pacific. Although most passengers manage to survive the incident, Ellen presumably perishes when swept off her lifeboat, her body never recovered. Fast forward five years. Nicholas, wanting to move on with his life, has Ellen declared legally dead. Part of that moving on includes getting remarried, this time to a young woman named Bianca Steele, who, for their honeymoon, he plans to take to the same Monterrey resort where he and Ellen spent their honeymoon. On that very same day, Ellen is dropped off in Los Angeles by the Navy, who rescued her from the South Pacific island where she was stranded for the past five years. She asks the Navy not to publicize her rescue nor notify Nicholas as she wants to do so herself.
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A killer hides out in a small-town boarding house.
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Topper is once again tormented by a fun-loving spirit. This time, it's Gail Richards, who was accidentally murdered while vacationing at the home of her wealthy friend, Ann Carrington (Landis), the intended victim. With Topper's help, Gail sets out to find her killer with the expected zany results.
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Orphaned shoeshine boy Spanky is working on a Mississippi riverboat during the Civil War. There he befriends young runaway slave Buckwheat. After wronging a vicious gambler, Spanky and Buckwheat are forced to jump ship. Finding solace at a nearby house, the two are picked by Marshall Valiant for an important mission. This inspires Spanky to organize the local kids to form a small army of their own.
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Stan and Ollie play bumbling circus performers who inadvertently drive the circus into bankruptcy. The circus can't pay them their wages so they are given a gorilla and a flea circus as payment. Bedlam ensues.
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Stan and Ollie check into a seedy hotel and help a young girl escape the clutches of the landlord. They are forced to flee the hotel with no money and Ollie arranges for Stan to fight at a local boxing hall for $50. Stan's opponent turns out to be Musgy who uses a loaded glove. During the fight the glove is swapped and Stan triumphs only to find that Ollie has bet their fee that he would lose.
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A timid accountant for a California cattle ranch and a lookalike dashing bandit become rivals for the beautiful daughter of a wealthy rancher.
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Ollie's house is a mess after a wild party from the previous night. Ollie receives a telegram from his wife (who is on vacation in Chicago), which tells him that she is returning home in the afternoon. Fearing his wife's wrath he calls Stan over to help him clean up. Things go downhill and they make more mess not less.
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It's in three distinct segments. The first and probably best involves Charley, his girlfriend, and her father foolish her mother and the suitor she prefers into getting Charley into the house for dinner. In the later two segments, in which Charley must get married within minutes to get a job, and then tries to go on a picnic with his new family, are both also packed with laughs and timed with an almost musical brilliance.
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Down and out Stan and Ollie beg for food from a friendly old lady who provides them with sandwiches. While eating, they overhear the lady's landlord tell her he's going to throw her out because she can't pay her mortgage. They don't realize that the old lady is really rehearsing for a play. Stan and Ollie decide to help the old lady by selling their car. During the auction a drunk puts a wallet in Stan's pocket. Ollie accuses Stan of robbing the old lady, but when the truth is revealed Stan takes revenge on Ollie.
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The Hardys wish to have a quiet evening in their apartment, but are interrupted when the Laurels pay a visit. Stan and Ollie go out for ice cream, and manage to prevent a shrewish woman from committing suicide on the way back home. The woman is ungrateful and makes threats against the them unless they look after her. They spend a chaotic evening trying to keep her hidden from their wives.
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It's Prohibition, and the boys wind up behind bars after Stan sells some of their home-brew beer to a policeman.
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Long lost German language version of the Laurel & Hardy film "The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case" When Stan's rich uncle Ebenezer dies and leaves behind a large estate, they think their days of living off the fish they catch are numbered. But they soon learn that Ebenezer has been murdered. All relatives, including Stan, are under suspicion.
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Charley agrees to go on a blind date to help out his roommate. But because his last such date turned out badly, he goes all out trying to make himself look bad. He refuses to shave, wears his friend's old suit and even eats garlic. Unfortunately for him, however, his date turns out to be the lovely Thelma Todd.
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Ollie is running for mayor when an old flame tries to blackmail him with a old photo.
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Charley is invited to a high class party, where he feels ill at ease and has no idea how to act, yet he wants to impress his young lady.
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Two homeless vagabonds hide out in a vacant mansion and pose as the residents when prospective lessees arrive and try to rent it.
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Spanish version of The Laurel and Hardy Murder Case and Berth Marks.
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The boys think their days of fishing to feed themselves have come to an end, when Stan's rich uncle Ebenezer dies leaving a large estate. But they soon learn that Ebenezer was murdered and all the relatives, including Stan, are suspects.
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Ollie can't find his hat, much to the amusement of his wife and maid. Then Ollie and Stan attempt to install a rooftop radio antenna.
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The gang decides to go camping with a little bear hunting on the side. A pair of poachers decides to try and scare them off with a gorilla suit but the gang decides to try and capture the gorilla instead.
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Stan lies to his wife about going to a nightclub with Ollie but Mrs. Laurel overhears the plot and outsmarts them both.
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Stanley and Oliver are trying to spend a relaxing night at home playing checkers, but the antics of their mischievous sons keep interrupting their recreation.
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Stan fakes receiving a telegram so he can go to a club with Ollie and a bottle of his unsuspecting wife's liquor, but she overhears his plans.
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The Rascals have a boxing arena that could pack them in if they could find fighters who would actually mix it up. Harry and Farina notice a rivalry between two very large young kids, Joe and Chubby, that would fill the bill if only the two heavyweights would put aside their gentle natures. Farina gets an idea: tell each of the lads that the other will take a dive in the second round. So the fight begins and the stands are filled; but will the combatants actually throw a punch? Ernie has one more trick up his sleeve to get the fists flying and the crowd on its feet. Sweet science indeed.
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While the other kids and animals find things to do on the farm, Farina becomes single-minded in his quest to do nothing at all.
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Sailors Stan and Ollie offer to buy sodas for two women they meet in a park, even though they are short on cash. Luckily Stan wins the jackpot on a slot machine and the boys have enough money to rent a boat to cruise on a lake. They soon tangle with other boaters and everyone ends up in the water.
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The gang is playing around the railroad station, and Joe and Chubby's father, an engineer, lectures against the kids playing in such a dangerous area. True to his word, after Joe and Chubby's father leaves, a crazy man starts a train with most of the kids on it, save for Farina who is nearly run over several times.
Once Farina manages to climb aboard himself, the kids attempt to stop the runaway locomotive, but have no luck until the engine crashes into a grocery truck. As it turns out, however, the entire incident is revealed to be a dream Farina had as Joe and Chubby's father lectured the kids about rail-yard safety.
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The gang are all orphans, hoping to be adopted by nice families where "spinach is not on the menu". Wheezer, the youngest child, gets adopted by a wealthy couple, while his older sister Mary Ann does not. The gang all comes to visit Wheezer in his new home, setting off an alarm that causes the police and the fire department to come over. At that time, Wheezer's new mother and father decide to adopt Mary Ann as well. The couple's friends all each adopt a child as well; even Farina is adopted by the maid at Wheezer's new home.