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Mr. Noisy (1946) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Mr. Noisy
director: Edward Bernds actor: Shemp Howard / Vernon Dent
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.
Rockin' in the Rockies (1945) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Rockin' in the Rockies
director: Vernon Keays actor: Moe Howard / Larry Fine
other title: 幸运拍档
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.
Terror Island (1920) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Terror Island
director: James Cruze actor: Harry Houdini / Jack Brammall
other title: L'Île de la terreur
Inventor Harry Harper travels to the South Seas, where there is buried treasure belonging to a girl, Beverly West. Naturally, others are after the loot, and Beverly's father 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.
Feet First (1930) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Feet First
other title: Der Traumtänzer / À la hauteur
An ambitious shoe salesman, Harold, unknowingly meets the boss' daughter and tells her he is a leather tycoon. The rest of the film he spends hiding his true circumstances, in the store and later on a ship. Trying to deliver a letter, he later finds himself dangling high above the street on a building's scaffolding.