Sporting Love
Farce of two brothers in a continual trough of financial depression.
Farce of two brothers in a continual trough of financial depression.
Stanley Lupino
Laddie Cliff
Eda Peel
Farce of two brothers in a continual trough of financial depression.
Stanley manages his boxer brother Lion but when a devastating loss in the ring leaves the pair in debt, an opportunity to recoup the cash leads to a series of misadventures that threaten to break the bond between them.
After a rapid engagement, a dowdy daughter of a chemist weds an industrialist, knowing little of his family or past. He transforms her into an elegant society wife, but becomes enraged whenever she asks about Michael, his mysterious long-lost brother.
An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich gentlemen who have conceived the crazy idea of distributing a note worth one million pounds. The sailor finds that whenever he tries to use the note to buy something, people treat him like a king and let him have whatever he likes for free. Ultimately, the money proves to be more troublesome than it is worth when it almost costs him his dignity and the woman he loves.
During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the two forge an unlikely partnership.
The men who made millions from a global economic meltdown.
Archie Rice, an old-time British vaudeville performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.
In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other—or can be made to have seemed to do so.
When an upwardly mobile couple find themselves unemployed and in debt, they turn to armed robbery in desperation.
Angelo "Snaps" Provolone made his dying father a promise on his deathbed: he would leave the world of crime and become an honest businessman. Despite having no experience in making money in a legal fashion, Snaps sets about to keep his promise.
Three manic idiots—a lawyer, a cab driver and a handyman—team up to run a ballet company to fulfil the will of a millionaire. Stooge-like antics result as the trio try to outwit the rich widow and her scheming big-shot lawyer, who also wants to run the ballet.