The Plank (1967)
You'll splinter your sides laughing at this classic of all comedies
Gênero : Comédia
Runtime : 55M
Director : Eric Sykes
Sinopse
A slapstick comedy about two workmen delivering planks to a building site. This is done with music and a sort of "wordless dialogue" which consists of a few mumbled sounds to convey the appropriate emotion.
Mousy, the laundry guy, is attacked several times by an angry theatre troupe member. Although he survives, his friend doesn't. So, he overcomes his cowardice and decides to avenge his friend's death.
The girlfriends of softball players decide to form their own team as a way of avenging their neglect.
This is the very first silent slapstick comedy short about adventures of Worldly, Coward, and Fool. What's more fun: fishing with worms, or dynamite? Three friends decided to have a blast! Unfortunately their dog Barbos just loves playing fetch. And this time that stick was used for blast fishing. Barbos saw people throwing a smoking stick in a water, and fetched it right back to his owners. The "unusual cross" part begins when owners try to outrun the dog with dynamite.
Narra a performance do ciclista espanhol Pepe Benengeli durante a ‘Vuelta a España’, terceiro circuito de ciclismo mais importante do mundo. Por estar em sua terra natal, Pepe se sente na obrigação de vencer; ainda mais porque, nesse mesmo dia, seu irmão mais velho está se casando com sua ex-namorada.
Doc and Wishey run into some Nazi-agents, who want to smuggle bombs into the USA from a Mexican border hotel.
On a dark night, under a full moon, a childless couple find a crying baby on their doorstep and decide to adopt him. As the years pass, they come to discover that their young son is not like other children.
Three brothers living with their father fib and play pranks to win parental approval for themselves and their romances.
O Vagabundo e seu patrão têm dificuldade para chegar a uma casa onde devem colocar papel de parede. O dono da casa está irritado por não ter tomado o café da manhã, e sua esposa está dando uma bronca na empregada, quando os dois chegam. De repente, o gás da cozinha estoura e o Vagabundo se oferece para fazer o conserto. O amante da esposa chega e fazem de conta que ele é o supervisor da obra, mas o marido não acredita e começa a dar tiros com sua arma. A cozinha explode e a casa fica destruída.
A gypsy seductress is sent to sway a goofy officer to allow a smuggling run.
Carlitos é um cliente que anda por uma grande loja e que usa algumas mercadorias, causando algumas confusões. Enquanto isso, o supervisor da loja, que havia roubado o dinheiro do caixa e se dispunha a fugir, encontra Carlitos, que é idêntico a ele, a ponto de o supervisor acreditar estar se olhando no espelho. O supervisor lhe oferece trocar de papéis, e Carlitos aceita. Então aparece o gerente - que era cúmplice do supervisor - e que confunde Carlitos com o empregado. Acontecem então os conhecidos alvoroços, com a intervenção dos detetives.
Um homem, em combinação como chefe dos bombeiros, planeja colocar fogo na casa em que mora a fim de receber o dinheiro do seguro. Quando começa o incêndio, Carlitos corre para salvar Edna, que, sem saber de nada, dormia no quarto.
David trabalha como assistente de Golias em um estúdio de cinema. Além de criar confusão com os outros que lá trabalham, ele também ajuda uma moça que trabalha no estúdio disfarçada de homem, mas que sonha em ser atriz.
Ollie is running for mayor when an old flame tries to blackmail him with a old photo.
Stan and Ollie travel to the mountains for Ollie's health, and park their caravan near a well into which a gang of moonshiners have earlier dumped their moonshine; and the boys proceed to quench their thirst thinking that it is iron-rich mountain water. The real trouble doesn't begin, though, until a married motoring couple stop by to borrow some gasoline, and the already-cranky husband leaves his thirsty wife with the boys while he goes off to refill his car's empty gas-tank. A sequel was made to this film: TIT FOR TAT, q.v.
A bumbling yachtsman sails to the South of Spain with a fiery seductress, only to become the pawn in her dangerous game of love.
A low budget industrial film shot for the Eastman Kodak company. The mildly funny film that shows all the troubles of a man named Lester Snapwell (Keaton), who, in the late 1860's, tries to photograph his sweetheart, Clementine, and her mother. However, he has too much trouble with the bulky camera. Then he is accidentally killed and father time transports him forward in time. In each successive period he struggles with the photographic technology of the day. Then he arrives in the 1960's where the new Kodak Instamatic" camera puts all his troubles to rest.
The year is 1949 and we are back at Matilda and Nils-Eriks farm. There son Lennart and his wife Rakel are planing to take over the farm after his parents.
A businessman charters a flight to Tibet to pick up a monk. On the way back, the plane is hijacked, and the monk ends up in a war zone where he has to convince the bandits to change their evil ways.
On a trip to New York, a small-town blowhard gets caught between a wealthy widow and a gold digger.