Rube Miller
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A Coat's Tale
Aug 08, 1914Comedy
A Deaf Burglar
Mar 13, 1913He Died and He Didn't
Oct 29, 1916The prospector enters the western dance hall, and upon seeing the gambler, takes a mallet and apparently kills the man. He is captured by the posse and as he is dangling from a tree tells the story of how, years before, he and Ben had been in Texas together, Ben fleecing Rube of all his savings, robbed him of his girl, and disappeared. As Rube is about to breathe his last word, a message comes to the effect that Ben has recovered. The posse cut Rube down and take him back. He discovers that the girl is still with Ben and is the mother of seven urchins. Ben tries to rid himself of this domestic burden, but Rube flees on his trick mule and has the last laugh on the gambler.
Comedy
Love and Salt Water
Jun 11, 1914Her Last Chance
Aug 29, 1914
Hell's Hole
Sep 23, 1923Cowboy Tod Musgrave and his pal Del Hawkins steal a ride on a train after being kicked out of a saloon. The conductor throws them off when he discovers they have no tickets, and the two men swear revenge.
Western
La Course au voleur
Feb 19, 1914John est témoin d'un vol de bijoux. Les bandits s'en aperçoivent et se mettent à sa poursuite.
Comedy
Won in a Closet
Jan 21, 1914Moving Picture World categorized the film as “a nonsense number”, but Normand's Won in a Closet, her second as director, displays her burgeoning talent. Mabel’s father, the country constable, is smitten with the mother of the boy Mabel imagines “her ideal”. The young couple’s romance is disrupted first by two rival “cut-ups” and then by misapprehension that a tramp is hiding in a closet at the mother’s home. In reality, the mother herself takes refuge in the closet to escape the constable’s attentions.
Comedy
The Gay Lord Quex
Dec 21, 1919Having followed the road of romance through many countries, Lord Quex finally falls in love with Muriel Eden. After resisting Lord Quex because of his reputation, Muriel finally capitulates to his charms and agrees to marry him. In her heart, however, Muriel still treasures an affection for Caption Bastling, a fortune hunting womanizer, and when Muriel is told of Lord Quex's continuing contact with the Duchess of Dowager, a situation brought about through the scheming of the Duchess, Muriel turns to Bastling and agrees to meet him at her friend Sophie Fullgarney's manicurist shop.
Drama
The Desperate Hero
Jun 07, 1920Henry Baird, a young newspaperman with a second-hand car but little money, decides to raffle off the car at a county picnic, so that he can take out his sweetheart, Mabel Darrow, the daughter of a wealthy businessman. However, as soon as Henry gets the money, his tailor demands that he pay off his debt. Also, youngsters set the car on fire before he can give to the winner, Joseph Plant, whose wife Evelyn was formerly Henry's sweetheart.
Comedy
Bombs and Bangs
Sep 17, 1914Passions, He Had Three
Jun 05, 1913Henry is a big, fat country boy with three passions. He likes eggs, milk and girls. He steals the eggs from the nests, sucks their contents, and refills the shells with water. When the family sit down to breakfast and the shells are broken the crime is discovered and Farmer Jones places a big bear trap, covered with straw, in front of the nests.
Comedy
Peeping Pete
Jun 22, 1913This early Keystone has Pete spying on his neighbor's wife through one of those little knotholes in a fence. The neighbor (Sterling) notices and chases him all over town with sheriff and family close behind. Fatty Arbuckle plays the peeper's wife(!).
Comedy
A Bandit
Jun 22, 1913Willy is a rather effeminate young man, and is abused by the town bully. He suspects that the bully is a coward at heart, so disguises himself as a bandit and shoots up the town.
Comedy
A Muddy Romance
Nov 19, 1913Two rivals for Mabel's hand play a series of dirty tricks on each other. Finally, one of them gets Mabel alone and is about to marry her, but his rival comes up with a strange scheme to stop them. Soon the Keystone Kops arrive on the scene, and chaos quickly ensues.
Comedy
Rastus and the Game Cock
Jul 03, 1913Rastus and the Game Cock is a 1913 movie starring Ford Sterling and Mack Sennett.
Comedy
A Quiet Little Wedding
Oct 23, 1913The scene is laid for a quiet little wedding. The guests are waiting for Fatty and an ancient maid to be made one. Fatty's rival appears and breaks up the wedding. A lemon meringue pie battle ensues, with the rival the victor. He carries the bride away. A most sensational and ludicrous finish is when he sees Fatty at the foot of a precipitous cliff. In a fit of rage he throws the bride from the top of the cliff at him, who lands unscathed in Fatty's arms.
Comedy
His Sister's Kids
Dec 13, 1913His Sister's Kids is a 1913 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Minta Durfee.
Comedy
In the Clutches of the Gang
Jan 17, 1914In the Clutches of the Gang is a 1914 movie starring Ford Sterling and George Nichols.
Comedy
Charlot danseur
Mar 09, 1914Dans une salle de danse, un imposant clarinettiste est furieux de voir sa belle courtisée par un autre musicien et lui demande des explications. Charlot observe de loin et se garde bien de s'en mêler mais lorsque les deux musiciens repartent jouer dans l'orchestre, il en profite pour faire sa cour à la belle…Il s'agit du sixième court-métrage de Charlie Chaplin et Charlot est loin d'avoir trouvé son apparence définitive. En effet, dans ce film, s'il porte bien son chapeau melon et a sa célèbre canne, c'est un dandy sans moustache !
Comedy
Charlot entre le bar et l'amour
Mar 16, 1914Charlie passe le temps dans son bar habituel, ivre, il crée une bagarre. Mis à la porte, il voit une jolie jeune fille dans un taxi. Il la suit chez elle et veut la séduire, malheureusement le mari de cette dernière le surprend.
Comedy
The Chicken Chaser
Apr 01, 1914The Chicken Chaser is a 1914 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Charles Avery.
Comedy
Bangville Police
Apr 24, 1913A young farm maid overhears two cow-hands talking in the barn, and she becomes convinced they’re about to rob her. She barricades herself in a room and calls the police. Her call wakes the chief, who rallies the country justice constabulary and they set off toward the farm, in steam-car and on foot. Meanwhile, the maiden’s parents rush to save her. Everything points toward a showdown in the barn, where no one, including the police force, will be cowed.
Comedy
A Fishy Affair
Apr 24, 1913A man goes fishing in the same pond where a burglar has thrown a sock of money stolen from the man's house.
Comedy
The Great Toe Mystery
Jul 25, 1914A man goes in hot pursuit of the shoe store clerk he feels has made inappropriate advances towards his wife.
Comedy
Shot in the Excitement
Oct 26, 1914Keystone short about two suitors getting into an increasingly, cartoonishly violent fight over a woman.
Comedy
Charlot et Fatty dans le ring
Jun 11, 1914Pug est un gentil garçon et une force de la nature pour qui rien ne compte plus que son chien et sa fiancée. Le voyou Al l'apprend à ses dépens en essayant de voler un baiser à la belle : en colère Pug met seul en déroute Al et toute sa bande de voyous. Au théâtre voisin, Cyclone Flynn, le célèbre boxeur, doit faire une exhibition et affronte tous ceux qui veulent tenter leur chance. Sa récente déconvenue donne l'idée au voyou de présenter Pug comme challenger et partager la prime. Il parvient à convaincre ce dernier d'aller s'inscrire. Mais une fois sur le ring, le combat de rue n'a rien à voir avec le Noble Art et Cyclone Flynn démolit consciencieusement Pug. Sonné et hors de lui, ce dernier se saisit de deux revolvers et entame une course poursuite avec le boxeur professionnel, qui a pris les jambes à son cou à l'extérieur du théâtre. Nos deux larrons sont suivis par les soigneurs, fiancée et spectateurs.
Comedy
Charlot aime la patronne
Apr 04, 1914
Le Roman comique de Charlot et Lolotte
Dec 21, 1914Chaplin, mauvais garçon de la ville, est venu se mettre au vert à la campagne. Il y rencontre une gaillarde jeune fille aux manières rurales, Tillie. Il la séduit et la persuade de s’enfuir avec lui non sans avoir dérobé les économies paternelles. Retournés en ville, ils rencontrent son ancienne petite amie. Tous les deux arrivent à dépouiller la pauvre niaise, la laissant sans le sou. Un peu plus tard, apprenant qu’elle vient d’hériter, Chaplin épouse la belle…
Comedy
The Stolen Booking
Sep 03, 1916Unknown to Kelsey and Ryan, two prominent actors, the show troupe to which they are sent by their booking agent, was driven from town by the Constable and his deputies. While waiting for their train the two actors stepped into the depot lunchroom and are seen by Rube and Ben, both out of employment. Rube and Ben steal the actors' suitcases, their wallet containing two dollars, their railroad transportation and their contract to join the troupe for which they are leaving. The actors finding their suitcases and wallet gone and being unable to pay for the food they have eaten, are detained by two roustabouts of the lunchroom long enough for Rube and Ben to leave on their train, and are then thrown out.
Comedy
Picture Pirates
Nov 12, 1916Rube's and Ben's wives are waitresses. An art collector purchases a rare picture and the "picture pirate," representing himself as another collector, calls on the first collector. As he is leaving the place Rube and Ben try to pick his pockets, and admonishing them as amateurs, he tells them to join in with him and try to steal the picture. They take the art collector's wife with them to the same café wherein their wives are waitresses. Ben and Rube leave her there and hasten to her home to steal a copy of the picture, the owner having hidden the original. They also drink some poisoned whiskey left for them and fall into a fit. Later the "picture pirate" pays Rube and Ben for the picture, thinking it is the original.
Comedy
The Gusher
Dec 14, 1913Mabel has two suitors - an oily con man, whom she mocks in a very funny scene where she is shown twiddling a fake moustache and making her feelings very clearly felt. Even in this early comedy her natural fun comes through. The one she really loves is clumsy yokel Ford Sterling, who is determined to buy an oil well that the con man has for sale. The conman gets a local fellow to pour oil over the property. Ford falls for it and buys it - Mabel and he are to be married. Then the fellow confesses that it was just a scam - there was no oil.
Comedy
A Blind Pig
Jun 12, 1918A French perfume salesman is mistaken for a bootlegger. Partially missing two-reeler with 11 minutes surviving.
Comedy
The World's Champion
Mar 12, 1922Young William Burroughs comes from wealth but not nobility, so despite his income he is not welcomed when he pursues Lady Elizabeth Galton, and indeed he is not only beaten by her cousin but thrown out by his own father for the disgrace he has caused. He travels to the United States where he becomes a champion prizefighter. Upon his return to England, he finds circumstances quite changed for Lady Galton and he sets out to change her circumstances further.
Drama
Doctoring a Leak
Sep 17, 1916
Poultry à la Mode
Oct 01, 1916
The Belles of Liberty
Jul 10, 1918Monty Banks plays a paramour who starts all sort of silly highjinks with Eva Novak and Carolyne Wright
Comedy
His Chum the Baron
Apr 28, 1913Smith's chum is a very poor Baron. Smith and the Baron are invited to a ball, and the Baron, not having evening clothes of his own, "borrows" Smith's dress suit. He is having the time of his life when Smith arrives, thoroughly angry, and taking the Baron in a room takes the clothes away from him. The Baron is in a terrible predicament, dodging around from room to room, as people intrude upon his hiding places. He tries to hide his face with a handkerchief, and a lady catches a glimpse of him as he dives under a bed. She screams in terror, thinking he is a mad man, and then the poor Baron is chased all over the house. Someone telephones for the police and they assist in the capture and lead him away.
Comedy
A Gambling Rube
Jun 15, 1914A comedy short that revolves around a poker game, both above and underneath the table. This is considered to be a lost film.
Comedy
Someone in the House
Nov 15, 1920Drama
Shot in the Excitement
Oct 26, 1914Keystone short about two suitors getting into an increasingly, cartoonishly violent fight over a woman.
Comedy
A Coat's Tale
Aug 08, 1914Comedy
The Stolen Booking
Sep 03, 1916Unknown to Kelsey and Ryan, two prominent actors, the show troupe to which they are sent by their booking agent, was driven from town by the Constable and his deputies. While waiting for their train the two actors stepped into the depot lunchroom and are seen by Rube and Ben, both out of employment. Rube and Ben steal the actors' suitcases, their wallet containing two dollars, their railroad transportation and their contract to join the troupe for which they are leaving. The actors finding their suitcases and wallet gone and being unable to pay for the food they have eaten, are detained by two roustabouts of the lunchroom long enough for Rube and Ben to leave on their train, and are then thrown out.
Comedy
Picture Pirates
Nov 12, 1916Rube's and Ben's wives are waitresses. An art collector purchases a rare picture and the "picture pirate," representing himself as another collector, calls on the first collector. As he is leaving the place Rube and Ben try to pick his pockets, and admonishing them as amateurs, he tells them to join in with him and try to steal the picture. They take the art collector's wife with them to the same café wherein their wives are waitresses. Ben and Rube leave her there and hasten to her home to steal a copy of the picture, the owner having hidden the original. They also drink some poisoned whiskey left for them and fall into a fit. Later the "picture pirate" pays Rube and Ben for the picture, thinking it is the original.
Comedy
He Died and He Didn't
Oct 29, 1916The prospector enters the western dance hall, and upon seeing the gambler, takes a mallet and apparently kills the man. He is captured by the posse and as he is dangling from a tree tells the story of how, years before, he and Ben had been in Texas together, Ben fleecing Rube of all his savings, robbed him of his girl, and disappeared. As Rube is about to breathe his last word, a message comes to the effect that Ben has recovered. The posse cut Rube down and take him back. He discovers that the girl is still with Ben and is the mother of seven urchins. Ben tries to rid himself of this domestic burden, but Rube flees on his trick mule and has the last laugh on the gambler.
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