A Clever Dummy

Jul 15, 1917

0h 19m

★ 5.0

Overview

An inventor and his assistant build a robot that looks like their janitor, and everyone tries to profit off the invention.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Keystone Film Company

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Cast

A Romantic Janitor

Ben Turpin

A Playful Property Man

Chester Conklin

Patrick Cohen - a Vaudeville Manager

Wallace Beery

A Leading Lady

Juanita Hansen

Tinker's Daughter - An Object of Affection

Claire Anderson

Samuel Tinker - Her Inventive Father

James Donnelly

Clarence - His Interested Partner

James Delano

Bald Husband in Audience

Joseph Belmont

Master of Ceremonies

Robert Milliken

Minor Role

Marvel Rea

Wifein Audience

Eva Thatcher

Maya is a quick-witted young woman who comes over the Mexican border without papers and makes her way to the LA home of her older sister Rosa. Rosa gets Maya a job as a janitor: a non-union janitorial service has the contract, the foul-mouthed supervisor can fire workers on a whim, and the service-workers' union has assigned organizer Sam Shapiro to bring its "justice for janitors" campaign to the building. Sam finds Maya a willing listener, she's also attracted to him. Rosa resists, she has an ailing husband to consider. The workers try for public support; management intimidates workers to divide and conquer. Rosa and Maya as well as workers and management may be set to collide.

6.7

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5.0

Campus Knights

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6.0

Did'ja Know?

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This short looks at the following questions: How would you act as an expectant father? How many greeting cards are sold in the USA each year? Why do indoor radiators make that pounding noise? Why do mammals yawn?

5.6

Joe Dirt

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Joe Dirt is a janitor with a mullet hairdo, acid-washed jeans and a dream to find the parents that he lost at the Grand Canyon when he was a belligerent, trailer park-raised eight-year-old. Now, blasting Van Halen in his jacked-up economy car, the irrepressibly optimistic Joe hits the road alone in search of his folks.

6.1

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A couple of angels, O'Reilly and Jackson, are sent to Earth to make sure that their next supervised love-connection succeeds. They follow Celine, a spoiled rich girl who has just accidentally shot a suitor and, due to a misunderstanding, is kidnapped by janitor Robert. Although Celine quickly frees herself, she stays with Robert for thrills. O'Reilly and Jackson pursue, hoping to unite the prospective lovers.

3.0

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The misadventures of Demesio Yito, a plumber unable to be intimate with his wife because of his conservative mother-in-law. He finds himself in a difficult position as a janitor when he witnesses couples and their infidelities.

6.9

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3.0

Alaston malli karkuteillä

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A comedy about a poor artist who is accidentally accused of the murder of his fiancee.

5.0

Ernest Goes to Jail

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Bumbling bank janitor Ernest P. Worrell is assigned to jury duty, and soon finds himself in trouble when he is covertly switched with a look-a-like crime boss. Ernest must escape from jail to expose the mix-up.

6.5

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This is a combination coming out and first love story. The swimmer and diver Lucard is interested in attractive Martin. The film follows the characters' coming out with all its difficulties, the bitter-sweet pleasures of first love and the dreadful moment when one comes down to reality and realizes that one's beloved friend has a hard way to go yet. The positive message the film tries to transmit is the somewhat common motto "Live each day of your life as if it were your last."

5.4

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6.9

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5.7

Conserje en Condominio

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After reading in the newspaper, Úrsulo runs to seek employment. It is the position of caretaker of a luxury apartment building habited by people more heterogeneous: the professional model, the spiritualist, hippies and all turn to him to solve their problems. But someone in the building, kidnapped an important person and Úrsulo becomes a private investigator.

6.0

The Big Noise

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5.4

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Two spoiled Beverly Hills sisters who have been left penniless after their father's sudden death are forced to move in with their estranged aunt in East Los Angeles.

7.7

Soy un prófugo

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A janitor in a large bank is accused of pulling of a major heist. He is forced to become a fugitive while hunting for the real culprits.

7.7

El circo

Mar 12, 1943

A cobbler gets a job in a Circus as a janitor, recommended by the beautiful girl rider of the show. But later, he gets in trouble when he involves in dangerous acts, such as the trapeze. Obviously, our friend will risk his life by the love of his new girlfriend.

7.9

Papatrechas

Feb 28, 1966

Polydoros Lagos is a janitor in an ordinary Athens' block in the 1960s who's struggling to serve as many of the building's residents as possible in order to save some money to help his six sisters (and his aunt) get married, since this is the only way he can finally get married too.

4.9

Stalled

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A janitor gets trapped in a women's restroom and encounters an all-out attack by a horde of zombies.