El Brendel

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Two young men, one rich, one middle class, who are in love with the same woman, become fighter pilots in World War I. (imdb)
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A man killed by lightning in 1930 is resurrected in the year 1980, surprised to see that food comes in pills and cars now fly. He befriends two scientific scientists, but still wants "the good old days."
Molly and Bee, sweet young 'working girls,' live in a cheap room over a New York grocery store. Molly's idol, wealthy Jack Cromwell, lives in a Long Island mansion but is markedly less happy, since his fiancée Jane won't discourage her other admirers. Fleeing in his car, Jack ends up in an urban block party where he meets you-know-who. (imdb)
A comic group of Europeans coming to the USA have romantic and immigration troubles. (imdb)
A construction worker takes charge of the daughter of a fellow worker killed in an accident. He brings the girl to New York to try to find her uncle. When he finds him, he discovers that the uncle has spent his life savings on a restaurant that turns out to be a worthless dive. He's determined to help the girl and her uncle make the restaurant a success. (imdb)
Part of a series begun by _What Price Glory_ and _Cock-Eyed World_. This third installment features plenty of pre-Code salaciousness with McLaglen and Lowe reprising their roles as two randy marines, Captain Flagg and Sergeant Quirt, who spar over women (including the gorgeous Greta Nissen) in every port, from Nicaragua to Brooklyn. (cinema.ucla.edu)
Jerry Seevers returns from World War I service broken in health and his doctor tells him he has only six months to live. His fiancée jilts him and he sets out to drink himself to death. In one of his binges he wakes up to find himself married to what the assumes is a gold-digger after his money. He leaves her and goes to a ranch in Arizona and get rid of his new bride, who is really in love with him. He sets up divorce proceedings and then realizes he actually loves her. (imdb)
Though its title suggests a war picture of some sort, MGM's Gallant Sons actually concerns the efforts of a group of kids to solve a murder. Young Johnny Davis (Gene Reynolds) is beside himself when his gambler father (Ian Hunter) is arrested for murder. In truth, Davis' pop is shielding several other people, whose reputations might have been ruined during his trial. (allrovi.com)
Bandleader (Romero and manager (Ameche) discover skater (Henie) in Norway. They become rivals as she returns with them to America. (imdb)
A detective goes undercover as a producer to investigate an actor's murder, which occurred during the performance of a play. The actor's body disappeared shortly after the crime, and his ghost is rumored to be haunting the theater. (imdb)
Troubles begin for the Sterlings when they buy an expensive car. Friends press them for rides; Marilyn has an accident which Gilbert must get $5,000 from his boss to pay for. They finally sell the car to the janitor. (imdb)
Two Marines are sent to South Sea island where they fight over a local island girl. (imdb)
When motorcycle cop Dick Fay gives a ticket to Phyllis Crawford, her father's graft-fed influence leads to his demotion to foot patrolman. When Fay leads a raid on a gangster's place he discovers Phyllis there, helps her escape, then blackmails her father. (imdb)
Jefferson Russett runs a logging company; his brother, Steve, is the prodigal son. Jeff cuts off his allowance and puts him to work, but on his first day, he is tricked into signing a contract allowing arch-rivals Barton Logging to use Russett railways. Jeff hauls Steve up to the logging camp, but he steals a plane. It runs out of gas in Barton territory, where spitfire Jo is running the camp. (imdb)
Margie, singer on a showboat, decides to try her luck in New York inspite of being in love with the owners grandson. She is successful, but suddenly she hears that the showboat is in deep financial trouble, and she calls all the boats former stars to join in a big show to rescue it. (imdb)
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A sleepy hay-seed filled Arkansas town gets spotlight fever when a local sow bears an unprecedented 10 piglets. (allrovi.com)
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Several members of MGM's 'galaxy of stars' attend an evening of music and a fashion show. (imdb)
A tough street kid attempts to rob a post office and is caught. In order to avoid reform school, he takes a job as a messenger with the post office. He finds that he likes it, and when his brother is released from prison, attempts to help his brother go straight. However, the two of them get mixed up with a local gangster, who has plans to start robbing post office branches and using the messenger and his brother to do it. (imdb)
Hoodlum Tommy Shay is sentenced to die for the murder of Police Lieutenant Carson, although Tommy was in a poker game at the time with a man calling himself "Denver" Collins. Collins has disappeared, and perjured evidence leads to Tommy's conviction. Tommy's younger brother Danny and his gang of alley kids,"The Little Tough Guys"--- "Sailor", "Murphy", "Monk", "Trouble" and "Yap"---scheme to save Tommy from the electric chair. (imdb)
Jane is the daughter of an officer in the Naval Air Service who, while putting on musical shows for the troops, uncovers a group of spies. (imdb)
Based on a Zane Grey story, The Last Trail stars virile cowboy hero George O'Brien in a largely anti-heroic role. Escaping from a posse, the "good bad man" (O'Brien) boards an Eastbound train, where he strikes up a friendship with a genial gangster (J. Carroll Naish). Later on, the cowboy returns to the West as a member of the gangster's gang. He poses as the heir to a vast cattle ranch, never dreaming that he really is the heir. (allmovie.com)
Ollie and John are stuck with car trouble. Luckily they have Bunny the elephant. They try to sell him to a fair in financial trouble. (imdb)
A stranded actress turned manicurist affects the lives of people in a small American town. (imdb)
Ay Tank Ay Go (1936) - Short Film
Boy loves girl, but she's on the other side in a hillbilly feud. (imdb)
Phoney Cronies (1942) - Short Film
Three incompetents are hired to deliver a large crate (supposedly containing artifacts, but actually containing a live gangster) to a creepy old museum in the middle of the night, leading to various slapstick mishaps. (imdb)
Lowe plays Chatrand the Great, a magician with great hypnotic and magical powers. During his evening performance at an upscale theater, a murder occurs. A hand wearing a sinister spider ring raises a revolver, the lights go out, and a shot rings out! When the lights come on, the body of a patron is lying on the floor, dying. Who is the mysterious killer? What is the strange secret of Lowe's clairvoyant, amnesia-plagued assistant?
What, No Men? (1935) - Short Film
A bill collector and a policeman are captured by a group of mad scientists and taken to an all-female Indian tribe for study. (imdb)
Defective Detectives (1944) - Short Film
El and Harry are two office cleaners turned detectives who are assigned to chase a gangster, but they end up catching the husband and wife they are supposed to protect from him. (imdb)
Pistol Packin' Nitwits (1945) - Short Film
Harry and his pal protect a pretty saloonkeeper from a gang of thugs. (imdb)
Okay, José (1935) - Short Film
A Salesman tries to locate a notorious Mexican bandit, comedy musical (imdb)
Love at First Fright (1941) - Short Film
A family of hillbillies mistake a radio announcer for their long-lost relative. (imdb)
Two vagrants get hired as plumbers' assistants. On their first job, they proceed to destroy a house while searching for a lost ring.
The kidnapping of an heir to a ranch goes awry when the Man of the Forest, mistrusted by the heiress, takes matters into his own hands with the help of his pet cougar. (imdb)
Too Many Crooks is a lost 1927 American comedy silent film directed by Fred C. Newmeyer, written by E.J. Rath and Rex Taylor, and starring Mildred Davis, Lloyd Hughes, George Bancroft, El Brendel, William V. Mong, John St. Polis, and Otto Matieson. It was released on April 2, 1927, by Paramount Pictures.
Radio commentator Dan Clifford takes desperate chances to save the life of a young girl who has been kidnapped.
Ready, Willing But Unable (1941) - Short Film
Truck drivers Olley (El Brendel) and Tom (Tom Kennedy) run over a tailor's dummy and believe it is a man, and they need to dispose of the body. They mistake the grounds of a girl's seminary for a cemetery and are discovered while digging a grave. They run into the dormitory where the girl students are sleeping.
Sweet Spirits of Nighter (1941) - Short Film
Officers Brendel and Kennedy are dispatched to a house where scientists are conducting experiments to revive the dead.
The Blitz Kiss (1941) - Short Film
Gardeners El and Tom find themselves drafted in the army and struggle to make good.
Olaf Laughs Last (1942) - Short Film
El tries to save his girlfriend, disinterested in him, from a gang of kidnappers.
His Wedding Scare (1943) - Short Film
El Brendel gets married and his troubles begin. In the Pullman car on his honeymoon, he gets into the wrong berth and has wife trouble; at the hotel, he gets into the wrong room and has husband trouble; then his wife's ex-husband arrives on the scene.
Actor Joe E. Brown narrates this compilation of film clips and behind-the-scenes footage of some of the screen's most famous comics, ranging from Ben Turpin and Fatty Arbuckle to W. C. Fields and Andy Clyde.