The wealthy hat maker Cederström has two daughters, Marianne and Lotte. He has decided that Marianne should marry Melander even though she loves the poet Malm. Lotte on the other hand loves Melander.
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The people behind it
Edvard Persson
August Cederström
Ellen Rosengren
Mathilda Cederström
Mim Persson
Marianne
Eli Fahnøe
Lotten
Harald Svensson
Ernst Malm
Torre Cederborg
Malm
Adolf Jahr
Ulrik Melander
Jullan Kindahl
Jullan
Edith Svensson
Marta
William Engeström
Kapten Ståhl
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After amusements working in a restaurant, a waiter uses his lunch break to go roller skating.
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A Harold Lloyd short featuring a young Snooky the chimp
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19th release in 'The Smith Family' series of 2-reel comedies.
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Karl Valentin and Liesl Karlstadt at the Oktoberfest.
A jungle travelogue looking for monkeys.
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An opportunistic umbrella salesman attempts to save a musician and his daughter from blackmail.
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The Little Fellow finds the girl of his dreams and work on a family farm. He helps defend the farm against criminals, and all seems well, until he discovers the girl of his dreams already has someone in her life. Unwilling to be a problem in their lives, he takes to the road, though he is seen skipping and swinging his cane as if happy to be back on the road where he knows he belongs.
After a visit to a pub, Charlie and Ben cause a ruckus at a posh restaurant. Charlie later finds himself in a compromising position at a hotel with the head waiter's wife.
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.
In what might be his most personal and introspective hour yet, Bill offers hilarious takes on everything from male sadness to dating advice.
A janitor at a bank is in love with a secretary and dreams that she has fallen in love with him too.
A commitment-phobic 27-year old’s relationship is put to the test when she and her boyfriend attend 7 weddings in the same year.
Stan and Ollie join the French Foreign Legion after Ollie's sweetheart rejects him.
After literally swimming across the Atlantic Ocean, an Englishman takes a country trip across Canada on a railcar.
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Pierre and Jacques are working as waiters at a restaurant where the cooks go on strike. When the two are forced to work as bakers, the striking cooks put dynamite in the dough, with explosive results.
A hypochondriac vacations in the tropics for the fresh air - and finds himself in the middle of a revolution instead.
Aspiring filmmakers Mel Funn, Marty Eggs and Dom Bell go to a financially troubled studio with an idea for a silent movie. In an effort to make the movie more marketable, they attempt to recruit a number of big name stars to appear, while the studio's creditors attempt to thwart them.
When college friends reunite after 15 years over the Christmas holidays, they discover just how easy it is for long-forgotten rivalries and romances to be reignited.
An arrogant but charismatic ladies' man finds his life of money, power and casual flings upended when he wakes up in a parallel world dominated by women.
A modern retelling of Shakespeare's classic comedy about two pairs of lovers with different takes on romance and a way with words.
Ricky Gervais tackles life, death and the state of the world in a brutally honest special that spares no topic, even his own mortality.
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Buster and a woman are mistakenly married and her initially unfriendly family begins to treat him nicely when they come to believe he has a large inheritance awaiting him.
Stanley Ford leads an idyllic bachelor life. He is a nationally syndicated cartoonist whose Bash Brannigan series provides him with a luxury townhouse and a full-time valet, Charles. When he wakes up the morning after the night before - he had attended a friend's stag party - he finds that he is married to the very beautiful woman who popped out of the cake - and who doesn't speak a word of English. Despite his initial protestations, he comes to like married life and even changes his cartoon character from a super spy to a somewhat harried husband.