Jack Shutta
Actor · 1899 – 1957 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Movies22
Movie6.3HorrorComedyAs novice detectives, Bud and Lou come face to face with the Invisible Man.
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man
1951 · 122 votes
Movie6.9DramaWarSet at the beginning of the Civil War, Tap Roots is all about a county in Mississippi which chooses to secede from the state rather than enter the conflict. The county is protected from the Confederacy by an abolitionist and a Native American gentleman. The abolitionist's daughter is courted by a powerful newspaper publisher when her fiance, a confederate officer, elopes with the girl's sister. The daughter at first resists the publisher's attentions, but turns to him for aid when her ex-fiance plans to capture the seceding county on behalf of the South.
Tap Roots
1948 · 11 votes
Movie6.2ComedyWesternChester Wooley and Duke Egan are travelling salesmen who make a stopover in Wagon Gap, Montana while enroute to California. During the stopover, a notorious criminal is murdered, and the two are charged with the crime.
The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap
1947 · 20 votes
Movie6.1ComedyAdventureJonesy and Lou are in Algeria looking for a wrestler they are promoting. Sergeant Axmann tricks them into joining the Foreign Legion, after which they discover Axmann's collaboration with the nasty Sheik Hamud El Khalid.
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in the Foreign Legion
1950 · 39 votes
Movie6.0CrimeDramaA counterfeiter gives up her life of crime and goes straight. She gets a job in a bank, but the members of her former gang hear about it and try to blackmail her into helping them rob the bank.
The Girl Who Came Back
1935 · 5 votes
Movie7.0CrimeRecently returned from WWII combat, unable to find a job, finding his sweetheart engaged to another man, and generally aware of the changes which have occurred in his hometown while he was away, a young man becomes easily talked into joining the Ku Klux Klan. Banned by the Virginia Board of Censors, and financed independently because no bank would loan money for it.
The Burning Cross
1947 · 2 votes
Movie5.8ComedyA truck driver and a gold-digger meet at a swank hotel and both think the other is wealthy. A drama of greed and society.
Three of a Kind
1936 · 8 votes
Movie5.6ComedyElmer attempts to elope with his fiancée, but they escape her parents by driving off in a car that's actually owned by a wanted gangster. When they hear on the radio that the police are looking for them, they dump the car and hide out near a farmhouse. But the farmer's radio also broadcasts the couple's description, so they run away and start hitchhiking, only to be picked up by two policemen. They manage to flee into a railroad yard and hop a train that turns out to be refrigerated. Finally they decide to turn themselves in -- just as they learn that the real crooks have been apprehended.
The E-Flat Man
1935 · 8 votes
Movie4.6ComedyNaval recruit Elmer is seemingly unable to discharge any of his duties without making life miserable for his irascible commanding officer, who winds up getting doused with paint, splattered with muck, and repeatedly tossed into the water due to Elmer's ineptitude. To make matters worse, Elmer takes a shine to the CO's girlfriend, which prompts her jealous boyfriend into several wrathful chases after Elmer. He eventually has Elmer locked in the brig -- but his girlfriend is in there too, so she can be together with her beloved Elmer.
Tars and Stripes
1935 · 13 votes
Movie6.8ComedyRomanceA showgirl working for an inventor battles crooks, who want to steal his ideas.
Up Goes Maisie
1946 · 4 votes
Movie5.5MysteryHorrorA ghostly and deadly dinner party, which at first turns out to be an elaborate staging of a new play for the benefit of a Broadway producer, becomes a true mystery when the players start to go missing.
The Ghost Walks
1934 · 23 votes
- MovieComedy
A 1931 Comedy short.
Once a Hero
1931
Movie5.4ComedyA driver on a non-stop race from New York to San Francisco gets detoured to Hollywood, where he winds up working as a publicity man for a movie studio and assigned to revive the career of a beautiful but fading star.
Windy Riley Goes Hollywood
1931 · 5 votes
Movie8.0ComedyThis fun little piece has Danny Kaye as man who buys a life insurance policy. What the insurance salesman doesn't know is that Danny is on the hit list by assassins so he has to do everything he can to keep him alive or else pay up on the policy.
Money on Your Life
1938 · 1 votes
Movie4.9CrimeDramaAfter a good-natured Irish cop is framed for a diamond robbery and murder and presumed dead in a train wreck, he gets plastic surgery and returns to expose the real killers.
Below the Deadline
1936 · 8 votes
- Movie8.0Comedy
A courtroom comedy! In this short we follow suspect Mr. Wilson (Clyde) as he explains the events leading to him hitting brother-in-law Homer Healy (Jack Shutta) with a monkey wrench. This was Andy Clyde's last short film for Educational Pictures.
Half-Baked Relations
1934 · 1 votes
Movie6.0DramaIn this drama an older actress plays her last role. The aging thespian is terribly depressed and ready to kill herself when she finds out that an older more successful friend has vanished. The missing actress's family is in a real quandry. To help them, the other impersonates the older actress. Loose ends are knitted together and then she admits her ruse.
The Curtain Falls
1934 · 2 votes
- Movie10.0Comedy
An oil-rich rube who aspires to stardom is bilked by a phony acting school.
Hollywood Trouble
1935 · 1 votes
- Movie10.0ComedyWestern
Harry and Joey are reluctantly out to capture "Black Pedro" the bandit.
Cactus Caballeros
1938 · 1 votes
- Movie9.0Comedy
A family of out-of-work vaudeville performers are finding hard times in the east, so after hearing about the success of a fellow player in Hollywood, they decide to relocate to the movie capitol. Unfortunately, they find themselves equally unemployed there, staying at a n apartment complex filled with similar hopefuls. One day, an offer for an interview at a large studio for the eldest daughter is made, so the father goes on a frantic search, finally locating her at a pool party where he pushes one of the young men in the water, only to find out that the lad was the son of the studio boss.
Flicker Fever
1935 · 1 votes
Movie9.0ComedyRoscoe Arbuckle loses his job to protect a young boy from the orphanage.
Hey, Pop!
1932 · 3 votes
Movie8.0ComedyNow that they're engaged, Ann wants Joe to retire from the ring, seeing as how he's the heavyweight champ. Ann's mother, who doesn't want her daughter marrying "beneath" the wealthy family's standing, to set Ann up with a European count. What the mother doesn't know is that the "count" is after the family's money more than he is Ann.
Taking the Count
1937 · 1 votes