Charles R. Bowers

Charles R. Bowers

Charles R. Bowers was a cartoonist and slapstick comedian during the silent film and early "talkie" era. He was forgotten for decades and his name was notably absent from most histories of the Silent Era, although his work was enthusiastically reviewed by André Breton and a number of his contemporaries. As his surviving films were rediscovery he has been one of the greats of the silent film era; along with Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and Harold Lloyd

  • Title: Charles R. Bowers
  • Popularity: 0.871
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1889-06-07
  • Place of Birth: Creco, Iowa, USA
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  • Also Known As: Bricolo, Charley Bowers, Charles Raymond Bowers, Charles Bowers
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Charles R. Bowers Movies

  • 1928
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    Say Ah-h!

    Say Ah-h!

    7 1928 HD

    Charley has to find an ostrich egg in a hurry for a disgruntled visitor, but he doesn't count on the introduction of some surreal plot twists and...

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  • 1928
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    There It Is

    There It Is

    6.722 1928 HD

    When a mysterious figure appears to cause a series of disruptions at the Frisbie Home in New York, word goes out to Scotland Yard that the Fuzz-Faced...

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  • 1926
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    Egged On

    Egged On

    6.2 1926 HD

    Charley invents a machine that turns ordinary, breakable eggs into rubbery, unbreakable ones for transport. He builds a Rube Goldberg contraption of...

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  • 1927
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    A Wild Roomer

    A Wild Roomer

    6.5 1927 HD

    Charles Bowers is once again an eccentric inventor. This time, he has only a matter of hours to debut his extraordinary new invention in order to...

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  • 1926
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    Fatal Footsteps

    Fatal Footsteps

    5.2 1926 HD

    Charley is obsessed with learning the Charleston, so he can enter and win a local contest, which promises a large prize and the hand in marriage of a...

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  • 1926
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    Now You Tell One

    Now You Tell One

    6.3 1926 HD

    The Liars Club is holding their contest to see who can tell the most unbelievable story, with a gold medallion waiting to be awarded to the winner....

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  • 1927
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    Many a Slip

    Many a Slip

    5.8 1927 HD

    Charley attempts to invent a non-slippery banana peel.

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  • 1927
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    Nothing Doing

    Nothing Doing

    6.5 1927 HD

    Charley asks for his girlfriend's hand in marriage, but her father, the police chief, angrily refuses to allow her to marry anyone who is not himself...

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  • 1930
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    It's a Bird

    It's a Bird

    7.1 1930 HD

    Charlie, working on a junkjard, always trying to help people in the most impossible ways with junk from his work place, hears from a German...

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  • 1939
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    Pete-Roleum and His Cousins

    Pete-Roleum and His Cousins

    6.5 1939 HD

    Pete Roleum, an oil droplet, narrates a presentation about the history and uses of oil: He starts by introducing some of his relations, with...

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  • 1926
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    He Done His Best

    He Done His Best

    5.2 1926 HD

    When Charley asks a young woman whom he is in love with to marry him, she tells him that he needs to get her father's consent. But when Charley then...

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  • 1970
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    Charley Bowers un Génie à Redécouvrir

    Charley Bowers un Génie à Redécouvrir

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1928
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    Whoozit

    Whoozit

    1 1928 HD

    Whoozit, produced in 1928 by Bowers Comedy Corp, was considered totally missing. This unique 16 mm print was discovered in 2008 in the collections of...

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  • 1928
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    Hop Off

    Hop Off

    1 1928 HD

    Only a few minutes remain of this partially lost film. A scientist discovers a potion that restores things to their original form: pets,...

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  • 1926
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    Egged On

    Egged On

    6.2 1926 HD

    Charley invents a machine that turns ordinary, breakable eggs into rubbery, unbreakable ones for transport. He builds a Rube Goldberg contraption of...

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  • 1928
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    There It Is

    There It Is

    6.722 1928 HD

    When a mysterious figure appears to cause a series of disruptions at the Frisbie Home in New York, word goes out to Scotland Yard that the Fuzz-Faced...

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  • 1918
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    A.W.O.L.

    A.W.O.L.

    4.2 1918 HD

    A soldier impatient for his discharge from the army after the armistice ending World War I goes absent without leave and is faced with the...

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  • 1918
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    A.W.O.L.

    A.W.O.L.

    4.2 1918 HD

    A soldier impatient for his discharge from the army after the armistice ending World War I goes absent without leave and is faced with the...

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  • 1926
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    Egged On

    Egged On

    6.2 1926 HD

    Charley invents a machine that turns ordinary, breakable eggs into rubbery, unbreakable ones for transport. He builds a Rube Goldberg contraption of...

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  • 1926
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    He Done His Best

    He Done His Best

    5.2 1926 HD

    When Charley asks a young woman whom he is in love with to marry him, she tells him that he needs to get her father's consent. But when Charley then...

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  • 1927
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    A Wild Roomer

    A Wild Roomer

    6.5 1927 HD

    Charles Bowers is once again an eccentric inventor. This time, he has only a matter of hours to debut his extraordinary new invention in order to...

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  • 1926
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    Fatal Footsteps

    Fatal Footsteps

    5.2 1926 HD

    Charley is obsessed with learning the Charleston, so he can enter and win a local contest, which promises a large prize and the hand in marriage of a...

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  • 1926
    imgMovies

    Now You Tell One

    Now You Tell One

    6.3 1926 HD

    The Liars Club is holding their contest to see who can tell the most unbelievable story, with a gold medallion waiting to be awarded to the winner....

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  • 1927
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    Many a Slip

    Many a Slip

    5.8 1927 HD

    Charley attempts to invent a non-slippery banana peel.

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  • 1927
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    Nothing Doing

    Nothing Doing

    6.5 1927 HD

    Charley asks for his girlfriend's hand in marriage, but her father, the police chief, angrily refuses to allow her to marry anyone who is not himself...

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  • 1926
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    Westward Whoa

    Westward Whoa

    5 1926 HD

    Cowboys Mutt and Jeff tangle with a bull on the ranch where they work.

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  • 1926
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    Playing with Fire

    Playing with Fire

    5.8 1926 HD

    Cartoon classic starring Mutt and Jeff.

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  • 1918
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    The Extra-Quick Lunch

    The Extra-Quick Lunch

    6.3 1918 HD

    A customer arrives at a restaurant in which Mutt is the waiter, and Jeff is the cook. The customer orders oxtail soup, and then argues with Mutt when...

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  • 1941
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    Pop and Mom in Wild Oysters

    Pop and Mom in Wild Oysters

    7.5 1941 HD

    A family of mice lives inside a hole in the wall, just outside of the kitchen. One of the mice is ready to go out and get some food, but first he has...

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  • 1940
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    A Sleepless Night

    A Sleepless Night

    7 1940 HD

    A family of mice who live inside of a wall are trying to sleep, but Mom mouse is being kept awake by a dog snoring in the room outside of their hole....

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  • 1928
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    Say Ah-h!

    Say Ah-h!

    7 1928 HD

    Charley has to find an ostrich egg in a hurry for a disgruntled visitor, but he doesn't count on the introduction of some surreal plot twists and...

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  • 1935
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    Believe it or Don't

    Believe it or Don't

    5 1935 HD

    A parody of the Ripley's "Believe It or Not" shorts series, Believe It or Don't has three narrated segments: a circus act entirely performed by...

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  • 1926
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    Slick Sleuths

    Slick Sleuths

    5.4 1926 HD

    Private eyes Mutt and Jeff are on the trail of the ghostly shape-shifting criminal, the Phantom.

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  • 1926
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    Dog Gone

    Dog Gone

    1 1926 HD

    Mutt has been appointed the judge at a dog show. He persuades Jeff to dress in a dog costume and they will split the prize money.

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  • 1927
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    The Globe Trotters

    The Globe Trotters

    1 1927 HD

    Our heroes Mutt 'n Jeff go on a round-the-world trek.

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  • 1925
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    Soda Jerks

    Soda Jerks

    1 1925 HD

    In this silent Mutt and Jeff cartoon, Jeff puts some pep liquid instead of the usual syrup in the sodas that Mutt serves to the customers in the malt...

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  • 1925
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    Accidents Won't Happen

    Accidents Won't Happen

    2 1925 HD

    Mutt (the tall one) takes out a policy on Jeff hoping to cash in big. But, unfortunately for his big money plans, ACCIDENTS WON'T HAPPEN.

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  • 1926
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    He Done His Best

    He Done His Best

    5.2 1926 HD

    When Charley asks a young woman whom he is in love with to marry him, she tells him that he needs to get her father's consent. But when Charley then...

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  • 1926
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    He Done His Best

    He Done His Best

    5.2 1926 HD

    When Charley asks a young woman whom he is in love with to marry him, she tells him that he needs to get her father's consent. But when Charley then...

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  • 1925
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    A Link Missing

    A Link Missing

    1 1925 HD

    A Mutt and Jeff short.

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  • 1925
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    Where Am I?

    Where Am I?

    1 1925 HD

    Mutt’s attempts to help Jeff get out of the pot attached to his head soon leads to dizzy escapades on a half-built skyscraper.

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  • 1920
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    Mutt and Jeff in the Movies

    Mutt and Jeff in the Movies

    1 1920 HD

    In this fragmentary episode, Mutt, as a cinema proprietor, has problems with his 5-man orchestra and his projectionist Jeff.

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  • 1926
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    Ups and Downs

    Ups and Downs

    10 1926 HD

    Director Charley Bowers has the unlikely pair of Mutt and Jeff go mountain climbing, dealing with the cartoon laws of physics and various wild...

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  • 1926
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    When Hell Freezes Over

    When Hell Freezes Over

    5 1926 HD

    This Mutt and Jeff cartoon was directed by Charley Bowers. It shows his typical care, both in the drawings of the characters and a surprisingly...

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  • 1920
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    On Strike

    On Strike

    3 1920 HD

    On Strike is one of more than 300 animated ‘half-reelers’ produced between 1913 and 1926 starring the popular American comic-strip...

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  • 1920
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    On Strike

    On Strike

    3 1920 HD

    On Strike is one of more than 300 animated ‘half-reelers’ produced between 1913 and 1926 starring the popular American comic-strip...

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  • 1927
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    Nothing Doing

    Nothing Doing

    6.5 1927 HD

    Charley asks for his girlfriend's hand in marriage, but her father, the police chief, angrily refuses to allow her to marry anyone who is not himself...

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  • 1927
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    Nothing Doing

    Nothing Doing

    6.5 1927 HD

    Charley asks for his girlfriend's hand in marriage, but her father, the police chief, angrily refuses to allow her to marry anyone who is not himself...

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  • 1969
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    The Adding Machine

    The Adding Machine

    5.5 1969 HD

    An accountant whose job is about to be taken over by a computer starts to re-examine his life and his priorities.

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  • 1925
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    Mixing in Mexico

    Mixing in Mexico

    2 1925 HD

    A Mutt and Jeff cartoon.

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  • 1925
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    Oceans of Trouble

    Oceans of Trouble

    7 1925 HD

    A Mutt and Jeff cartoon.

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  • 1926
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    Mummy O'Mine

    Mummy O'Mine

    1 1926 HD

    A Mutt and Jeff cartoon.

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  • 1940
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    A Sleepless Night

    A Sleepless Night

    7 1940 HD

    A family of mice who live inside of a wall are trying to sleep, but Mom mouse is being kept awake by a dog snoring in the room outside of their hole....

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  • 1928
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    Whoozit

    Whoozit

    1 1928 HD

    Whoozit, produced in 1928 by Bowers Comedy Corp, was considered totally missing. This unique 16 mm print was discovered in 2008 in the collections of...

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  • 1926
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    'Lots' of Water

    'Lots' of Water

    1 1926 HD

    Mutt and Jeff's hilarious hijinks.

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  • 1926
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    Fatal Footsteps

    Fatal Footsteps

    5.2 1926 HD

    Charley is obsessed with learning the Charleston, so he can enter and win a local contest, which promises a large prize and the hand in marriage of a...

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  • 1927
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    A Wild Roomer

    A Wild Roomer

    6.5 1927 HD

    Charles Bowers is once again an eccentric inventor. This time, he has only a matter of hours to debut his extraordinary new invention in order to...

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  • 1927
    imgMovies

    A Wild Roomer

    A Wild Roomer

    6.5 1927 HD

    Charles Bowers is once again an eccentric inventor. This time, he has only a matter of hours to debut his extraordinary new invention in order to...

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  • 1939
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    Pete-Roleum and His Cousins

    Pete-Roleum and His Cousins

    6.5 1939 HD

    Pete Roleum, an oil droplet, narrates a presentation about the history and uses of oil: He starts by introducing some of his relations, with...

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  • 1928
    imgMovies

    Say Ah-h!

    Say Ah-h!

    7 1928 HD

    Charley has to find an ostrich egg in a hurry for a disgruntled visitor, but he doesn't count on the introduction of some surreal plot twists and...

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  • 1930
    imgMovies

    It's a Bird

    It's a Bird

    7.1 1930 HD

    Charlie, working on a junkjard, always trying to help people in the most impossible ways with junk from his work place, hears from a German...

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  • 1928
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    Hop Off

    Hop Off

    1 1928 HD

    Only a few minutes remain of this partially lost film. A scientist discovers a potion that restores things to their original form: pets,...

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  • 1981
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    Scanners

    Scanners

    6.7 1981 HD

    After a man with extraordinary—and frighteningly destructive—telepathic abilities is nabbed by agents from a mysterious rogue...

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  • 1925
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    Invisible Revenge

    Invisible Revenge

    1 1925 HD

    1925 Mutt and Jeff cartoon

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  • 1937
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    The Keeper of the Lions

    The Keeper of the Lions

    1 1937 HD

    The title character, Oswald the Rabbit, pulls a foolish prank on the lions in the zoo, causing them to break out of their cage and run rampant.

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  • 1937
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    The Mechanical Handy Man

    The Mechanical Handy Man

    1 1937 HD

    An Oswald Rabbit cartoon.

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  • 1937
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    The Dumb Cluck

    The Dumb Cluck

    1 1937 HD

    An Oswald Rabbit cartoon.

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  • 1941
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    Pop and Mom in Wild Oysters

    Pop and Mom in Wild Oysters

    7.5 1941 HD

    A family of mice lives inside a hole in the wall, just outside of the kitchen. One of the mice is ready to go out and get some food, but first he has...

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