Hold Your Breath

May 24, 1924

0h 31m

★ 5.5

Overview

When her newspaper reporter brother is taken ill, a young woman takes over his job. Before she knows it, she's involved up to her neck in a plot involving stolen jewelry and a very agile monkey.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Christie Film Company

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Cast

Mabel

Dorothy Devore

Freddie

Walter Hiers

Blake

Tully Marshall

Beauty Parlor Proprietor

Jimmie Adams

Mary

Priscilla Bonner

Jack

James Harrison

City Editor

Lincoln Plumer

Hairdresser

Patricia Palmer

Customer

Rosa Gore

Customer

Jay Belasco

Mayor

George C. Pearce

Black Man

Douglas Carter

On a moonlit fall night, a priest races to the home of Mr. Moulin running a motorcycle off the road and arriving just in time to catch the old man as he falls from a chair on which he stacked books in order to reach a bottle of cognac. Mr. Moulin is a miser with a sock full of money that the priest would like to appropriate by selling the old man a space capsule that will take him to paradise. After a test drive and some negotiation, the deal may be struck, but then, there's a knock at the door.

5.8

A Jitney Elopement

Apr 1, 1915

Edna's father wants her to marry wealthy Count He-Ha. Charlie, Edna's true love, impersonates the Count at dinner, but the real Count shows up and Charlie is thrown out. Later on Charlie and Edna are chased by her father, The Count, and three policeman. The pursuers drive off a pier.

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똑똑한 누나

May 23, 2023

No overview available.

6.8

Brats

Mar 22, 1930

Stanley and Oliver are trying to spend a relaxing night at home playing checkers, but the antics of their mischievous sons keep interrupting their recreation.

0.0

Confession

Aug 13, 2019

Gayoung, a director, expects to hear a farewell confession from her boyfriend, who's an actor. (Part of "100인 X 100초영화 프로젝트", a project dedicated to celebrate 100 years of South Korean cinema.)

7.2

Blotto

Feb 8, 1930

Stan fakes receiving a telegram so he can go to a club with Ollie and a bottle of his unsuspecting wife's liquor, but she overhears his plans.

5.7

Call of the Cuckoo

Oct 15, 1927

Mishaps befall a new home owner located next door to an insane asylum.

6.5

Chickens Come Home

Feb 21, 1931

Ollie is running for mayor when an old flame tries to blackmail him with a old photo.

6.3

Do Detectives Think?

Nov 20, 1927

An escaped convict is out to kill the judge who sentenced him. Two inept detectives are hired to guard the judge.

6.4

Duck Soup

Mar 13, 1927

Fleeing a group of forest rangers, who are rounding up tramps to serve as firefighters, they take refuge in a mansion. The owner has gone on vacation and the servants are away, so Hardy pretends to be the owner and offers to rent the house to an English couple. Hardy gets Laurel to pose as the maid. Unfortunately, the owner returns and tells the would-be renters that he owns the house; Laurel and Hardy then flee again and are caught by the rangers and forced to fight wildfires.

6.1

Early to Bed

Oct 6, 1928

Oliver inherits a fortune and hires Stan as his butler and proceeds to torment him. Stan finally rebels and goes on a rampage, destroying Oliver's fancy furnishings.

6.6

The Hoose-Gow

Nov 16, 1929

Stan and Ollie arrive as new inmates at a prison after apparently taking part in a hold-up raid, a raid they tell a prison officer they were only watching. The usual mayhem ensues.

6.3

Putting Pants on Philip

Dec 3, 1927

Pompous J. Piedmont Mumblethunder greets his nephew from Scotland who arrives in kilts. He is immediately taken to a tailor for a pair of proper pants.

6.7

Sailors, Beware!

Sep 25, 1927

A con artist and a midget dressed as her infant son, are unmasked aboard a ship by a steward.

6.2

The Second 100 Years

Oct 8, 1927

Laurel and Hardy are convicts making an escape from prison.

4.9

Slipping Wives

Apr 3, 1927

Neglected by her husband, our heroine decides to make him jealous by getting the handyman to play a literary genius at a party and flirt with her.

6.6

That's My Wife

Mar 23, 1929

Oliver stands to inherit a large fortune from his rich Uncle Bernal, with the condition that he be happily married. But when Mrs. Hardy walks out just before Uncle Bernal is due for a visit, Stanley is pressed into duty (and into drag) to impersonate Oliver's loving spouse.