An ironic comedy to the sports world about the corrupt gears of football. As goalkeeper, figure a dwarf...
2 grave robbers find a town put under a curse by a witch, which causes the residents to have weak immune systems.
A desperate man and two romantic rivals encounter one another at a Christmas party.
19th release in 'The Smith Family' series of 2-reel comedies.
The Housing Shortage
Out of the three-part burlesque, the only surviving one is the one called Pufi would buy a pair of shoes, with Hungarian inserts. The film is shot on a real-life location, in a Budapest shoe shop, and it portrays the mutual efforts of a puny sales assistant and Pufi, the bladder-of-lard customer, to find him a suitable pair of shoes. The content of the other two parts is not known.
Karl Valentin and Liesl Karlstadt at the Oktoberfest.
Prinz Sami
While making a movie in the Alps, the female star falls in love with a nobleman.
A lonely mime takes desperate measures in order to find the audience he deserves.
Fairground boxing booth where visitors try to knock out the champion and win five pounds, the first contestants is knocked out but the very eager (and possibly drunk) third man knocks out the champion and overcome with "boxing fever" rushes out punching at everybody and everything he meets. (britishpathe.com)
Glimpses of Chaucer penning his famous work are sprinkled through this re-enactment of several of his stories.
The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, by the Church and bourgeois society in general.
A tramp cares for a boy after he's abandoned as a newborn by his mother. Later the mother has a change of heart and aches to be reunited with her son.
When a group of trespassing seniors swim in a pool containing alien cocoons, they find themselves energized with youthful vigor.
Three reporters and an office girl are trying to stop a bacteriological strike by some powerful western business leaders against the USSR.
A silent 3-reel comedy short that uses the 1933 film King Kong as a backdrop to the story. It was produced by Shochiku Studios (who released the original 1933 film in Japan on behalf of RKO). It is now considered to be a lost film.
A runaway train speeds down the track.
A husband-and-wife team play detective, but not in the traditional sense. Instead, the happy duo helps others solve their existential issues, the kind that keep you up at night, wondering what it all means.
A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.