Silent home movies, in both black and white and color, of Joan Blondell, Dick Powell and a young child, presumably Blondell's son Norman, in and around a backyard swimming pool. From the collection of the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
Joan Blondell
Dick Powell
Silent home movies, in both black and white and color, of Joan Blondell, Dick Powell and a young child, presumably Blondell's son Norman, in and around a backyard swimming pool. From the collection of the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
Three Chaplin silent comedies "A Dog's Life", "Shoulder Arms", and "The Pilgrim" are strung together to form a single feature length film. Chaplin provides new music, narration, and a small amount of new connecting material. "Shoulder Arms" is now described as taking place in a time before "the atom bomb".
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A shipowner intends to scuttle his ship on its last voyage to get the insurance money. Charlie, a tramp in love with the owner's daughter, is grabbed by the captain and promises to help him shanghai some seamen. The daughter stows away to follow Charlie. Charlie assists in the galley and attempts to serve food during a gale.
Charlie is released from prison and immediately swindled by a fake parson. A fellow ex-convict convinces Charlie to help burglarize a house.
A man attempts to evade observation by an all-seeing eye.
Buster clowns around in a blacksmith's shop until he and the smithy get in a fight which sends the smithy to jail. Buster helps several customers with horses, then destroys a Rolls Royce while fixing the car parked next to it.
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