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.
Casts Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Joe Keaton, Erwin Connelly, Ward Crane, Doris Deane, Christine Francis, George Davis, Kewpie Morgan, Steve Murphy
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Father Makes Good
House of Angels
Le Voleur Volé
Lehmann's Honeymoon
Der Liebesbrief der Königin
The Speed Spook
Smith's Army Life
Auf dem Oktoberfest
Monsieur Verdoux
Women in Cages
Rich and Strange
Champagne
Puffy Buys Shoes
You Can't Take It with You
Mataharis
Caught in a Cabaret
The Old Guard
The Plasterers
Blue Sky 2
The Emerald Forest
SIMILAR MOVIES
Father Makes Good
IMDB 6 | May , 1950
In the third movie in Monogram's "Father" series, patriarch Henry Latham buys a cow in order to bypass the town's milk tax.House of Angels
IMDB 5.9 | Feb , 1992
In a small village in Västergötland, everything is turned upside-down when the local loner dies and his cottage is inherited by his unknown relative Fanny. She rides into town on a big black motorcycle with her androgynous boyfriend Zack, wearing black leather and spikes. When they decide to stay, Flogfält's plans to buy the cottage are upset.Le Voleur Volé
IMDB 0 | Apr , 2023
A foolish but devious thief spends his time stealing portraits of rich families and selling them to the highest bidder. But a woman investigator knows how to trap him and teach him a lesson. One day, the thief breaks into an aristocrat's house but is surprised by the investigator. She has just taken his picture and stolen his own portrait !Lehmann's Honeymoon
IMDB 0 | Nov , 1916
a silent movie by Robert WieneDer Liebesbrief der Königin
IMDB 0 | Mar , 1917
a silent movie by Robert WieneThe Speed Spook
IMDB 3 | Aug , 1924
An auto racer driving through a small town finds himself tangled up in a local political controversy, an election and a mystery that surrounds a supposedly "haunted" car that speeds through town with no driver and disappears before anyone can catch it.Smith's Army Life
IMDB 0 | Feb , 1928
19th release in 'The Smith Family' series of 2-reel comedies.Auf dem Oktoberfest
IMDB 0 | May , 1921
Karl Valentin and Liesl Karlstadt at the Oktoberfest.Monsieur Verdoux
IMDB 7.7 | Sep , 1947
The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for his wife and child, he marries wealthy widows and then murders them. His crime spree eventually works against him when two particular widows break his normal routine.Women in Cages
IMDB 5.2 | Oct , 1971
Carol Jeffries is a naive American woman staying in the Philippines. She is given ten years in prison after being set up by her drug-dealer boyfriend, Rudy. She endures the harsh conditions, sadistic head matron and attempts on her life, then convinces her cell-mates to try to escape with her through the jungle, in spite of the knowledge that ruthless trackers will be sent out after them.Rich and Strange
IMDB 5.5 | Dec , 1931
Believing that an unexpected inheritance will bring them happiness, a married couple instead finds their relationship strained to the breaking point.Champagne
IMDB 5.2 | Aug , 1928
Betty, the rebellious daughter of a millionaire, decides to marry the penniless Jean—against her father's will—and runs away to France and lives a life of luxury on the profits from her father's business. Pretending his business is crashing, her father finally puts a stop to her behavior, which forces Betty to support herself by getting a job in a night club.Puffy Buys Shoes
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1914
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.You Can't Take It with You
IMDB 7.5 | Sep , 1938
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.Mataharis
IMDB 4.6 | Sep , 2007
Private detectives Inés, Eva, and Carmen often invade others' privacy but are clueless about confronting their own secrets. While on the job, these three surveillance specialists will have to cross the thin line dividing public and private matters, bringing their own issues to light in order to solve more than just their professional cases.Caught in a Cabaret
IMDB 5.6 | Apr , 1914
Charlie is a clumsy waiter in a cheap cabaret, suffering the strict orders from his boss. He meets a pretty girl in the park and tries to impress her by pretending to be an ambassador. Unfortunately she has a jealous fiancé.The Old Guard
IMDB 6.3 | Sep , 1960
Three friends leave their village for a retirement home travelling the countrysideThe Plasterers
IMDB 5 | Dec , 1929
A bizarre comedy short in which knockabout comics Charles O'Donnell and Jack Blair show up to repair a woman's house, but spend more time wrecking things and doing pratfalls. There's even a pantomime horse that causes trouble!Blue Sky 2
IMDB 6 | Aug , 2010
A documentary film maker goes into the forest to film a tribe of primitive people living there. He finds out there are two when he gets there. He is captured by one of the tribes who are rumoured to be cannibals. His daughter leads a party of university students to go and rescue him.The Emerald Forest
IMDB 6.6 | Jun , 1985
For ten years, engineer Bill Markham has searched tirelessly for his son Tommy who disappeared from the edge of the Brazilian rainforest. Miraculously, he finds the boy living among the reclusive Amazon tribe who adopted him. And that's when Bill's adventure truly begins. For his son is now a grown tribesman who moves skillfully through this beautiful-but-dangerous terrain, fearful only of those who would exploit it. And as Bill attempts to "rescue" him from the savagery of the untamed jungle, Tommy challenges Bill's idea of true civilization and his notions about who needs rescuing.