Cinefest 2013
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- DirectorAlbert RayStarsGeorge K. ArthurKarl DaneMarjorie BeebeKarl's so lethargic and sleepy, he dozes off at his club, and nobody notices him for days. To give him some pep, George takes him and their wives camping in the Adirondacks, but Karl still finds places to snooze away while all have a bad time.
- DirectorAlexander HallStarsFrancis LedererJoan BennettCharles RugglesLederer is a Hessian soldier who defects to the Americans during the Revolutionary War.He falls in love with a Yankee girl, but a thuggish local militiaman jealously makes things hard for him while he's a prisoner of war.
- DirectorRoscoe 'Fatty' ArbuckleStarsRoscoe 'Fatty' ArbuckleEdgar KennedyLucille WardFatty's flirting with neighbor Kennedy's wife, and he isn't happy about it. Al's a crook, Minta's a maid and Fatty gets caught in a chase through the house while Edgar's shooting at him.
- DirectorMarcel PerezStarsMarcel PerezNilde BaracchiTom MurrayTweedledum is the victim of a nightmare. The plot deals with the adventures of a club man who has fallen in love with his neighbor's wife, which ends by Tweedledum waking up to find that it was only a dream.
- DirectorArvid E. GillstromStarsOliver HardyBilly WestEthel Marie BurtonWest modifies the story from Chaplin's "Dough and Dynamite", with the emphasis on throwing and covering everyone with bread dough.
- DirectorLouis MyllStarsHarry WatsonDan CrimminsDella ConnorMusty works in an automat where the customers steal food using slugs and reaching through the vending doors. Musty smashes them over the head with a mallet, and dumps the bodies down a chute to what appears to be a sausage processor.
- DirectorRichard SmithStarsNeely EdwardsBert RoachAlice HowellWhen Neely is hypnotized to think he's a monkey, he goes on a freewheeling chase where he climbs things he wouldn't ordinarily and throws lots of things.
- DirectorHenry MacRaeStarsRexValerieHugh AllanA soldier returns home from World War I with a beautiful black horse that he saved on the battlefield, and names Thunderhoof. He enters the horse in a local race, hoping to earn enough money to save the family ranch of the girl he loves. However, the crooks intent on taking the ranch manage to capture a notorious wild horse and enter it in the same race, believing that it can beat Thunderhoof and thereby ensure that they're able to take the ranch.
- DirectorMaurice TourneurStarsAlma HanlonJune ElvidgeIrving CummingsThe story of the training of a racehorse, the Whip, of the amnesiac nobleman who loves the horse, and of the villains who attempt to keep it from racing.
- DirectorRoscoe 'Fatty' ArbuckleStarsWalter CatlettAl St. JohnDorothy GrangerAs Al and Dorothy start their honeymoon, Al finds to his horror that Catlett is coming along, and takes the wheel of their car, putting Al in the rumble seat. He pushes Al around,until he can't stand it and resorts to violence.
- DirectorRoscoe 'Fatty' ArbuckleStarsRita FlynnVirginia BrooksJeanne FarrinThree girls apply for maid jobs at a resort but are taken for royalty when a telegram about their dog Queenie is intercepted.Film producers vie to put them under contract but selling a script idea finally saves them when the bill comes due.
- DirectorAlbert AustinVictor HeermanStarsMathilde BrundageClaude GillingwaterJackie CooganAn orphan escapes immigration officials at Ellis Island and goes to live with an old ship's master who can't find work and can't pay the rent.
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsWalter MillerMary PickfordL.M. WellsA very pretty girl is always surrounded by many male admirers, much to the dismay of one very shy fellow, who gets his chance to impress her when two burglars break in.
- DirectorJohn B. O'BrienStarsMary PickfordEdward MartindelMaggie WestonRich artist David King sends his infant daughter Molly to an orphanage, then years later regrets it and tries to find her. She's sent to slave at a boarding house,and the mistress of the orphanage passes her niece off as Molly.
- DirectorAlexis GranowskyStarsEmil JanningsSidney FoxJosette DayA 1933 British Production based on the novel by Pierre Louys' "The Adventures of King Pausole", a fantasy based on a theme of King Solomon and his many wives. Good King Pausole (Emil Jannings) selects a wife for every day in the year, but the one played by 'Sidney Fox' protests when he spends her day searching for his favorite daughter who has eloped with a visiting airman stranded in the kingdom. He comes from a modern and different world and this gives Queen for a Day some ideas about how to make her title a lasting one.
- DirectorAl BoasbergStarsWalter CatlettVivien OaklandZeffie TilburyWalter goes to his girlfriend's parents to ask their permission to marry her; but the family puts on an act and pretends to be totally loony.
- DirectorTom BuckinghamStarsElaine HammersteinT. Roy BarnesRobert EllisRich, spoiled Marian pressures Eric to marry her.Her brother is in love with her friend Mamie, but a scheming ex husband tries to blackmail her. Mamie is saved from suicide by Eric, who's in a compromising position when he brings her home.
- DirectorLeslie GoodwinsStarsHall Johnson ChoirMatthew 'Stymie' BeardClinton RosemondMembers of the Hall Johnson Choir play members of a church congregation in the deep South in 1936. THey hold an open-air tent-and-camp meeting in order to raise the funds needed to send the church pastor, played by Clinton Rosemond, to a church conference in Birmingham, Alabama.
- DirectorGeorge B. SeitzStarsKenneth HarlanViola DanaFrank HagneyJack De Quincy, an American graduate of Oxford, is still considered a wastrel playboy by his father, owner of a giant lumber company in the American northwest. To prove he is a man his father sends him there to take charge of a large lumber camp, filled with brawny he-men who spend their time drinking, gambling and brawling when not cutting timber. Once there, Jack establishes himself by winning a fight against "Dum-Dum" Pete, the toughest man in those parts. Along the way he sees to it that a needed operation is performed on the camp's mascot, a crippled young boy, and saves his sweetheart, Marie O'Nei, that daughter of a rival lumber company, from drowning in the river when the spring thaw causes an ice-break flood.
- DirectorGéza von BolváryStarsWalter JanssenOskar KarlweisWilli ForstToni Hofer and brothers Vicki and Nicki Mahler are working on a new operetta. Toni's reputation with women equals his fame as composer, so they keep their sister Hedi away from him. Wanting to know him, she calls at his house in the middle of the night not revealing her identity, helps him write the main waltz theme and disappears, leaving him incapable of remembering his greatest melody. Music by Robert Stolz.
- DirectorGilbert P. HamiltonStarsSammy BurnsDot FarleyDorothea ClarkeSammy can't get any attention from his girlfriend Dot because all she can think of is Charlie Chaplin. She sends Chaplin an enticing letter and Sammy a rejection, but the two get mixed up, so Sammy dresses up like Chaplin. unfortunately the decomposing film crashes at that point.
- DirectorHarry EdwardsStarsLloyd HamiltonBud DuncanNorma NicholsHam and Bud fall victims to Norma, but they run afoul of hubby, six foot two and big and broad. Hubby seeks revenge but Ham and Bud are fleet of foot. So a plan is concocted by which Ham is induced to put on the gloves in a finish bout with the Masked Marvel. Ham and Bud believe in preparedness, so they examine the stage beforehand and find a trap door under one of the corners, through which, it is arranged, Bud will slip Ham a glove loaded with a brick. Ham almost quits when the Marvel removes his mask and is disclosed to be the wrathful hubby. But he manages to live through the first round and is all set for the big plan when the Marvel forces him to exchange corners. Bud, unsuspecting, slips the loaded glove on the Marvel's hand. What happens to Ham is too sad to tell, but it makes a funny finish for this one-reel comedy.
- DirectorErnst LubitschStarsPauline FrederickMay McAvoyMarie PrevostA frivolous middle-aged socialite is suddenly put upon to have her daughter live with her. Her conniving paramour dumps her for her daughter, leaving her young boyfriend crushed.
- DirectorAlfred E. GreenStarsColleen MooreRalph GravesJ. Farrell MacDonaldShane O'Mealia leaves Ireland promising to send for his sweetheart Moyna. In the meantime, the son of the old lady she lives with takes them back to America without telling Shane, who then must explain to them about a girl he's been seeing in New York.
- DirectorMichael SchlesingerStarsNick Santa MariaWill RyanAndrew ParksThose merry madcaps of mayhem, Biffle & Shooster, in the movie that sets comedy back 75 years--to when it was, y'know, actually funny. The less-than-legendary vaudeville team made 20 comedy shorts between 1933 and 1938; this was their final one. The boys get jobs in an art gallery on the very day that a priceless painting is delivered. You can pretty much imagine how this will play out. Shot in glorious B&W and 1.33:1, IT'S A FRAME-UP! is an authentic-as-possible recreation of the glory days of Hollywood comedy teams, replete with snappy dialogue, grievous puns, plenty of slapstick and even impressions--plus a plot twist or two. Yes, boys and girls, they CAN make 'em like they used to...and we're just the idiots to do it!
- DirectorGeorge AbbottStarsCharles MackGeorge MoranEvelyn BrentGeorge's partner in vaudeville quits their act, claiming that Betty has broken his heart. George then teams up with Charlie, a stranded trouper, and Irving becomes their manager. Later, in New York, the "Two Black Crows" star in their own revue and save money to build their own theater on Broadway. Betty comes to the theater with her lover, who poses as a cousin and induces George to hire her. He showers her with jewels and money. She tries to persuade George to invest in oil stock her lover is selling, and though their act is a success, Charlie fires Betty. When Charlie and Betty's lover quarrel, Charlie is injured.
- DirectorRobert F. McGowanStarsJoe CobbJackie CondonAllen 'Farina' HoskinsFarina's mother is very ill and the mortgage is due. He tries to take over her laundry business, but the kids just wreck the clothes. Joe takes pity and devises a scheme to make money: the gang builds their own oil well.
- DirectorFred C. NewmeyerStarsRichard DixEsther RalstonHarry BeresfordElmer Stone, quarterback of the 1899 Colton College football team vows to remain a student until Colton beats its biggest rival, State University. Twenty-seven years later, Elmer is still in school and is a classmate of his son, Jack. Other than driving a milk wagon in his spare time, Jack is also the quarterback of the football team. A matter of his eligibility comes up but he is cleared and goes out to do-or-die for Colton against State University. Maybe they will win The Big Game, and Jack's father can get a life...and a job.
- DirectorDel LordStarsEugene PalletteWalter CatlettDorothy GrangerA pair of sailors are on shore leave - skirt chasing and raising hell. They're targeted and pursued by a gang looking for a sailor with a winning lottery ticket. Mayhem ensues.
- DirectorJustin HermanStarsEdwin Cooper
- DirectorJustin HermanStarsWard WilsonAn overview of how approaching hurricanes are analyzed by the weather bureau, by sending Navy and Air Force flyers into the heart of the impending storm (in the years before satellites.)
- DirectorWilliam BeaudineStarsJohn BealWanda McKayWarren HymerA honeymoon couple in New York for one night of wedded bliss before he's to join the army, become involved with gangsters after they find a cadaver under their bed.
- DirectorRoscoe 'Fatty' ArbuckleStarsRoscoe 'Fatty' ArbuckleBuster KeatonAl St. JohnChaos reigns at an upscale restaurant as a cook and a waiter juggle their responsibilities.
- DirectorRudolph MatéStarsGlenn FordGeraldine BrooksCedric HardwickeAn ex-soldier and his new girlfriend comb France for a valuable relic...which others are willing to kill for.