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I'm from the City (1938)
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Ben Holmes actor: Joe Penner / Richard Lane …
other title: I'm From the City
Pete Pepper 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. Pete is entered as a competitor in a wild-west cross-country obstacle race...and has to ride without being hypnotized.
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Mr. Noisy (1946)
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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.
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Rockin' in the Rockies (1945)
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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.
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Terror Island (1920)
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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.
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Feet First (1930)
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克莱德·布鲁克曼 actor: Harold Lloyd / Barbara Kent …
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.
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Speedy (1928)
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特德·怀尔德 actor: 哈罗德·劳埃德 / Ann Christy …
other title: 飞毛腿 / 极速快感(台) …
Speedy loses his job as a soda jerk, then spends the day with his girl at Coney Island. He then becomes a cab driver and delivers Babe Ruth to Yankee Stadium, where he stays to see the game. When the railroad tries to run the last horse-drawn trolley (operated by his girl's grandfather) out of business, Speedy organizes the neighborhood old-timers to thwart their scheme.
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The Freshman (1925)
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弗雷德·C·纽迈尔 / 山姆·泰勒 actor: 哈罗德·劳埃德 / 乔拜娜·劳斯顿 …
other title: 新生 / 大学新生 …
Harold Lamb is so excited about going to college that he has been working to earn spending money, practicing college yells, and learning a special way of introducing himself that he saw in a movie. When he arrives at Tate University, he soon becomes the target of practical jokes and ridicule. With the help of his one real friend Peggy, he resolves to make every possible effort to become popular.