Battling Butler

Aug 2, 1926

1h 17m

★ 6.8

Gloves seemed to hit him from all sides!

Overview

A meek millionaire masquerades as a boxing star to win a girl's heart.

Genres

Comedy

Romance

Production Companies

Buster Keaton Productions

Battling Butler Trailers

Cast

Alfred Butler

Buster Keaton

Alfred's Valet

Snitz Edwards

The Mountain Girl

Sally O'Neil

The Mountain Girl's Father

Walter James

The Mountain Girl's Brother

Budd Fine

Alfred 'Battling' Butler

Francis McDonald

Battling Butler's Wife

Mary O'Brien

Battling Butler's Trainer

Tom Wilson

Battling Butler's Manager

Eddie Borden

Seventeen year old William Sylvanus Baxter has fallen madly in love with young coquette, Lola Pratt. After spending all of his money on the fickle girl, she runs off with an older man. William now heartbroken, contemplates suicide, until a friend from childhood, May Parcher, pays a visit and William decides to fall in love with her.

0.0

Sealed Lips

Oct 3, 1927

The film is based on a story by Guy de Maupausant. The story details several years in the life of convent-bred Angela (Mona Mårtenson) who leaves her convent in Italy to go live with her aunt Peppina (K. Swanstrom), whose husband Giambastista wants to take advantage of her. She flees and takes refuge with the painter Frank Wood ( handsome Louis Lerch) and winds up in a romance with Wood. Alas, Wood is already married, and when Martenson finds out, she returns to the convent in disgrace. On the verge of shutting herself off from the world and taking her vows as a nun, the heroine once again crosses the path of Wood, who is now free to marry her. Sandra Milowanoff has a big scene where she commits suicide on discovering that her husband no longer loves her.

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Proceso creativo de una mente sin ideas (PCDUMSI)

Sep 14, 2024

No overview available.

0.0

Billy Jim

Jan 29, 1922

Billy Jim is a rich cowboy who tries to seduce a young girl whose father exploits a mine.

0.0

The Rising Generation

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A major and his wife return from abroad and pose as servants to observe their adolescent children.

7.0

First Blush

Aug 27, 2020

Nena and Drew are a young, happy-ish married couple whose relationship is thrown off its axis when they meet Olivia. The trio's attraction to each other is undeniable, but when they become romantically involved, they struggle to navigate the complications of a polyamorous relationship. The three push each other's boundaries to the limits as they discover painful truths about who they are, what they want, and how to love in turbulent times.

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Max est distrait

Jul 3, 1910

Max acknowledges his father-in-law's dinner invitation with a business memorandum to his horse dealer.

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His English Wife

Jan 17, 1927

London socialite Cathleen Paget's adventures in love and misfortune a year after the death of her husband. Ivor Willington and Lionel Jesop play cards for who will be given the shot at flirting with Paget, as to claim her wealth. But when her brother Bruce has lost the family fortune in bad business, Cathleen is suggested to court Nordic giant Birger Holm. The two marry and the families financial problems seem to be at bay, although the life in the northern Sweden is wearing Cathleen down as she misses parties, friends and dancing at the Savoy Hotel.

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Le duel de Max

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0.0

Dead Funny

Oct 7, 2022

A lonely mime takes desperate measures in order to find the audience he deserves.

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Aus dem Tagebuch eines Junggesellen

Jan 8, 1929

No overview available.

1.0

The Kiss

Feb 22, 1998

Bob is a car nut who's oblivious to his wife Sue's need for some amorous action and Barry's (his gay neighbor) unrequited affections. When Sue mistakes the legs sticking out under her hubby's car for Bob's and decides to take action, who can tell where events will lead?

5.8

Koko-di Koko-da

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As a couple goes on a trip to find their way back to each other, a sideshow artist and his shady entourage emerge from the woods, terrorizing them, luring them deeper into a maelstrom of psychological terror and humiliating slapstick.

0.0

What for?

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Céleste Noménoé, a provincial actor, comes to Paris for an inheritance. He also gets a part in a movie. The managers of a music-hall notice him. He takes the stage name of Grock.

6.8

My Punch-Drunk Boxer

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0.0

The Lonely Hearts Café

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A guy walks into a café...

3.0

Call a Taxi!

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After being ejected from an establishment for being drunk and disorderly, George Rowe, Sammy Brooks, Hughie Mack and Snub Pollard form a drunken singing quartet in the street before a car comes and takes Sammy and George away, leaving the other two staggering in the road. Snub and Hughie agree to go somewhere "where there are no wives, landlords or prohibitionists", and so three months later they emerge on a prairie with supplies dwindling.

9.5

Reservations

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2.0

Japanese King Kong

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A silent 3-reel comedy short that uses the 1933 film King Kong as a backdrop to the story. It was produced by Shochiku Studios (who released the original 1933 film in Japan on behalf of RKO). It is now considered to be a lost film.