John Grey
Рождение : 1885-12-19, New York, USA
Смерть : 1964-12-11
Writer
Buster leaves his job after learning that he inherited a farm from an old relative.
Story
In this Columbia All-Star Comedy (production number 8439), Shemp Howard finds himself in a love nest with the wrong woman, while his bride-to-be is waiting, none too happy, at the church.
Story
This All-Star Comedy (production number 7437, and a remake of 1940's "The Heckler" with Charley Chase) has Shemp Howard, noise-maker and heckler deluxe, hired by two gamblers to rattle a ball team while the gamblers bet on the opponents. The gamblers are more than a little bit vexed when Shemp loses his voice.
Story
A painter suffering from amnesia convinces himself that he's a famous bandleader and finds romance with a pretty singer. Comedy with music.
Screenplay
A young girl goes to New York to find a band leader who has stolen all the songs she wrote and is passing them off as his own.
Screenplay
Rancher Rusty Williams is away at agricultural college and leaves his spread in the hands of his older cousin Shorty. Shorty wants to do more than run a ranch, however -- he wants to prospect for gold, but he has no money. He recruits a pair of partners in the guise of two runaway vagrants and a pair of backers in two stranded singers. But then Rusty shows up, and his four somewhat bumbling hired hands manage to compound Larry and Curly's deep ineptitude, and Rusty wants them all out of his hair.
Story
In this comic western, a Broadway star leaves his musical revue to go West and help out his troubled friend. While there, the performer finds himself forced into becoming the town sheriff. Mayhem ensues, but somehow, the crooner manages to round up a band of killers.
Writer
In Sing a Jingle, Allan Jones plays popular radio crooner Roy King, who goes to work in a war plant after being declared 4F. He falls in love with Muriel Crane (June Vincent), the boss' daughter, who is at first unaware of the fact that King is the heartthrob of millions (he's gotten the job under an assumed name).
Screenplay
Andy, the owner of a bicycle shop, gets involved with one of his customers.
Story
Andy, the owner of a bicycle shop, gets involved with one of his customers.
Screenplay
A hillbilly moonshiner enlists in the army. Monogram Pictures' comedy was inspired by the then-popular comic strip character.
Writer
The stooges are window washers who lose their jobs after Moe impersonates the dentist in whose office they were cleaning. On the run, they are hired by a millionaire to pose as children. It seems the man's wife wants to adopt some refugees to impress her society friends. Moe is Johnny, Curly is Frankie and Larry is Mabel. Everything goes fairly well as the lady shows off the stooges to her friends, but they finally irritate her husband so much that he goes after them with an ax.
Story
An obnoxious heckler at a baseball game infuriates everybody.
Screenplay
A girl keeps meeting Charley the wrong moments, including losing her dress in his car, and later he finds himself in her apartment. Her jealous boxer-husband is obsessed with killing Charley after seeing them together again and again.
Story
A girl keeps meeting Charley the wrong moments, including losing her dress in his car, and later he finds himself in her apartment. Her jealous boxer-husband is obsessed with killing Charley after seeing them together again and again.
Story
Bandleader Tim Hartley's father objects strongly to his son's occupation choice and packs him off to Hawaii to manage the family hotel holdings. This proves to be a wrong move as Hawaiia has more bands than it does pineapples.
Screenplay
Pete Pepper (Joe Penner) is a shy, timid circus performer who is scared to death of horses, but rides like a whirlwind when he has been hypnotized by "Ollie" Finch (Richard Lane). Pete is entered as a competitor in a wild-west cross-country obstacle race...and has to ride without being hypnotized.
Screenplay
Hildegarde Withers and Inspector Piper try to solve a murder while attending a popular Broadway show.
Writer
An heiress and a dog-catcher go searching for a priceless stamp.
Writer
While crossing on the train ferry to New Orleans, roving reporter Addison Francis Murphy borrows money from singing hillbilly "Carolina," then loses it all in a crap game. Outside on deck, Murphy sees two men shaking hands, and after he looks away, hears a splash of water and discovers both men have disappeared...
Writer
Three inept firemen try to avoid being fired by their increasingly exasperated chief.
Writer
An Iowa farmer's wife makes him move to Hollywood so their daughter can become a star.
Writer
An actress goes up to a dude ranch for relaxation, when she falls in love with a ranch owner recently acquitted of his wife's murder.
Screenplay
The day starts out fine for Leon, but as it goes on, things start to deteriorate.
Story
This short features two women who run around in their nighties. Paul McCullough spends most of the picture in a dress, and Bobby Clark does an extended riff on the word "Alright!" which Lou Costello later stole verbatim. There is a political frameup, a nearsighted hotel house detective, and the ever-popular upstairs motorcycle chase.
Story
After a mix-up with his application photograph, an aspiring actor is invited to a screen test and goes off to Hollywood.
Writer
That's My Meat is a 1931 Comedy short.
Story
Гарольд Хорн — амбициозный продавец обуви из Гонолулу. Однажды он случайно встречается с дочерью своего босса, не зная кто она, и выдаёт себя за миллионера-бизнесмена.
Screenplay
A businessman who has devoted his whole life to obtaining money and power finds that he can't buy the one thing he craves: love.
Screenplay
A Southern belle's flirtation with a working man leads to tragedy.
Adaptation
A Southern belle's flirtation with a working man leads to tragedy.
Writer
A likeable pickpocket happens to stumble onto a white slavery ring while plying his trade in Chinatown.
Story
Были времена, когда трамваи по Нью-Йорку двигались на конной тяге. Однако транспорт этот быстро устарел и, более того, пришёл монополист – Компания внутригородских железных дорог. И лишь Папаша Диллон не сдаётся, продолжая обслуживать один из маршрутов на своём анахронизме. Компания пытается выкупить его бизнес, но цена предложенная стариком им кажется неприемлимой. Тогда акулы капитализма задумали устроить "рейдерский захват". Диллон, конечно, стар, но жених его внучки, непутёвый парень, помешанный на бейсболе, которого все зовут Спиди, решает воспрепятствовать коварным планам врага, призвав на помощь всё ещё боевых ветеранов Гражданской войны…
Scenario Writer
The Laguna Dam is to be built in Arizona to supply water to desert-land unfit for cultivation or stock-raising. Rival companies bid for the building contract, which leads to violence and danger for Bob Owen and his dog Satan.
Scenario Writer
Гарольд Ллойд в роли обыкновенного парня, живущего в небольшом городке вместе с отцом и двумя старшими братьями. Отцу Гарольда, местному шерифу, в знак уважения, городская община поручила сохранить крупную сумму денег, собранную на строительство дамбы. Случилось так, что деньги из сейфа таинственным образом исчезают. В воровстве обвиняют отца, но Гарольд полон решимости во что бы то ни стало спасти честь семьи и разыскать пропавшие деньги, за одно стремясь доказать, что отношение к нему, как к незрелой личности, является несправедливым.
Story
Гарольд Ллойд в роли обыкновенного парня, живущего в небольшом городке вместе с отцом и двумя старшими братьями. Отцу Гарольда, местному шерифу, в знак уважения, городская община поручила сохранить крупную сумму денег, собранную на строительство дамбы. Случилось так, что деньги из сейфа таинственным образом исчезают. В воровстве обвиняют отца, но Гарольд полон решимости во что бы то ни стало спасти честь семьи и разыскать пропавшие деньги, за одно стремясь доказать, что отношение к нему, как к незрелой личности, является несправедливым.
Writer
Молодой миллионер-бездельник Гарольд Мэннерс, живёт беспечно и совсем не знает жизни без денег. Но всё меняется, когда он, случайно оказавшись в бедной части города, влюбляется в красавицу-простушку.
Story
Гарольд Лэмб мечтает поступить в колледж. Он не догадывается, что там всё далеко не так, как в фильме "Герой колледжа", а потому с первого же дня Гарольд со своими "старомодными манерами" становится объектом насмешек. Чтобы добиться популярности, нужно не только устраивать вечеринки на последние деньги, но и играть в футбольной команде колледжа, а американский футбол - игра не для слабаков! Гарольда берут в команду, но, как оказывается, в качестве "мальчика для битья". Зато какого боевого игрока из него воспитали!
Story
Lloyd's look at married life and the issues of the in-law. Adventures include a ride on a crowded trolley with a live turkey; A wild spin in a new auto with the in-laws in tow. Finally, a sequence in which Hubby accidentally chloroforms his mother-in-law and becomes convinced that he's killed her!
Writer
Veteran western performers Harry Carey and Marguerite Clayton appeared in three films together from 1923-1924: Desert Driven, Tiger Thompson and, perhaps their best, Canyon of the Fools.
Writer
A young man from the country travels to the city to find his fortune. Although he has a letter of introduction from his wealthy uncle, the best job he can find is that of a street cleaner. He catches the eye of his landlady, who somehow manages to get the man to propose to her, but he then falls in love with a pretty young socialite, and when his rich uncle dies finds himself being sued by a gold-digging vamp who wants to her her hands on his inheritance.
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Newlyweds Tom and Nan Beech have trouble settling into their tiny new apartment, and once they have, they get into an argument that sends Nan storming out. Almost as soon as she is gone, Tom gets word that his uncle will give him 50 thousand dollars if he can prove he is a happily married, successful businessman.
Writer
A murderous gang of mysterious creepy killers mark a young heiress for death. They are led by a ghostly voice known only as the "The Mystery Mind."
Story
Inventor Harry Harper (Harry Houdini) travels to the South Seas, where there is buried treasure belonging to a girl, Beverly West (Lila Lee). Naturally, others are after the loot, and Beverly's father (Fred Turner) is being held captive by cannibals until she returns to them with a pearl that belongs to one of their idols. The climax consists of Harper saving Beverly from a safe which has been lowered into the sea.
Story
Instilled with the spirit of patriotism after her teacher reads to her the story of Joan of Arc, Marie Yarbell goes home, persuades her father to enlist and then organizes a "military company" comprised of her playmates.