El Brendel

El Brendel
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The Big Trail
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Just Imagine
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Sunnyside Up
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Delicious
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If I Had My Way
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)
Women of All Nations
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)
West of Broadway
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)
Gallant Sons
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)
Happy Landing
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The House of Fear
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)
6 Cylinder Love
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The Cock-Eyed World
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Disorderly Conduct
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God\
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)
Happy Days
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Hot Pepper
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Call a Messenger
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)
Code of the Streets
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)
The Holy Terror
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)
The Last Trail
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)
Machine Gun Mama
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The Meanest Gal in Town
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Ay Tank Ay Go
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Phoney Cronies
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The Spider
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?
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
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\
Harry and his pal protect a pretty saloonkeeper from a gang of thugs. (imdb)
Okay, José
Okay, José (1935) - Short Film
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I Spied for You
Seaman foils a ring of Nazi saboteurs.
Pick a Peck of Plumbers
Two vagrants get hired as plumbers' assistants. On their first job, they proceed to destroy a house while searching for a lost ring.
You Never Know Women
A love triangle in a circus troupe,
Man of the Forest
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Too Many Crooks
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.
Risky Business
Radio commentator Dan Clifford takes desperate chances to save the life of a young girl who has been kidnapped.
Ready, Willing But Unable
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
Officers Brendel and Kennedy are dispatched to a house where scientists are conducting experiments to revive the dead.
The Blitz Kiss
Gardeners El and Tom find themselves drafted in the army and struggle to make good.
Yumpin\
El uknowingly becomes the assistant to a jewel thief.
Olaf Laughs Last
El tries to save his girlfriend, disinterested in him, from a gang of kidnappers.
His Wedding Scare
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.
Screen Snapshots: Memories of Famous Hollywood Comedians
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.