Neal Burns

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• Movie7.0

  MusicRomance

  In 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures later, they marry and then abandon comedy to attempt a dancing career together. While they're performing in Paris, an agent sees them rehearse and starts them on their brilliant career as the world's foremost ballroom dancers. However, at the height of their fame, World War I begins.

  The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle

  1939 · 43 votes

• Movie6.4

  ComedyRomance

  A wide-eyed working girl wins a $5,000 sweepstakes and plunges into the lush life of New York City, where she meets a bellboy who is more than he seems.

  The Gay Deception

  1935 · 11 votes

• Movie7.0

  Romance

  Jane Ray, a very clever reporter of crimes of passion, or "sob sister," for a New York tabloid, begins to feel depressed by the sordidness of her latest assignment, the investigation of a young woman's murder by her husband. Despite her growing distaste for her profession, Jane gets her story and, with typical ingenuity, frustrates her competitors' attempts to follow her lead.

  Sob Sister

  1931 · 1 votes

• Movie4.6

  Horror

  The story of Dr. Charles Randolph, a scientist dedicated to deciphering the secrets of life and death. Aided by assistant David Cochran, Charles conducts experiments that have horrifying side effects. Charles's lonely wife, Elaine, is frightened by his work, and in order to protect her, housekeeper Maria unleashes a torrent of voodoo that wrecks havoc.

  The Face of Marble

  1946 · 11 votes

• Movie10.0

  Comedy short starring Alice Howell

  In Dutch

  1918 · 1 votes

• Movie8.0

  Comedy

  Process server Neal Burns raids a hospital to bring a reluctant doctor to trial.

  Court Plaster

  1924 · 1 votes

• Movie7.3

  Comedy

  The stooges are down and out. With a cop chasing them, they flee into an artists studio where they are mistaken for students. The cop continues to hunt for them and they use a variety of disguises and tactics to elude him. A wild clay throwing fight ends the film.

  Pop Goes the Easel

  1935 · 17 votes

• Movie6.3

  Comedy

  Gertie and Jimmie want to get married and go on a honeymoon. They have the license and the tickets, but have to get past her strict father.

  Getting Gertie's Goat

  1924 · 3 votes

• Movie7.5

  Comedy

  Neal Burns & Helen Darling showing that family life is chaotic, from taking care of the kid to demolishing houses.

  No Parking

  1921 · 2 votes

• Movie8.0

  Comedy

  Chester Beatty and Tessie Weeks have been engaged for 5 years and going together for 15 years before that. Chester is reluctant to burden Tessie with marriage because of his secret problem. He is a sleepwalker. When Tessie finally does rope Chester into marriage, he can't get time off from his boss of 26 years, Mr. Frisbee. To resolve the problem, Chester sets out to impress his boss by securing a big sales contract of glass eyes. He takes Tessie and follows the rich doll company owner Horace B. Stanton to a lakeside resort and befriends him. However, his sleep-walking makes him a prime suspect in a thievery/murder case.

  Early to Bed

  1936 · 2 votes

• Movie7.0

  Comedy

  Mister Wife

  1926 · 1 votes

• Movie8.2

  Comedy

  Smugglers are on the loose and a thriving black market in salami is plaguing the nation. Clark and McCullough are hired to catch the smugglers. They are soon up to their ears in salami.

  Kickin' the Crown Around

  1933 · 2 votes

• Movie7.0

  Comedy

  A Paramount-Christie comedy from 1928.

  Hot Scotch

  1948 · 1 votes

• Movie

  Comedy

  Try & Helpus are two junk dealers, who have to raise five hundred to pay the rent which the villainous landlord demands. Various times the five hundred is placed in their hands but Always it is removed therefrom by a grouchy policeman.

  Out for the Coin

  1917

• Movie7.0

  A young woman decides to vamp her friend's husbands visiting Scottish uncle, but her scheme to trick him into marrying him backfires when her own husband catches on.

  Loose Change

  1928 · 1 votes

• Movie10.0

  Comedy

  The movie starts out with Marie as The Girl in the Case in love with Neal Burns, “Her Sweetheart.” But her dad wants her to marry someone else (Chester Conklin) and takes her away on vacation to get her away from Her Sweetheart. He follows them, disguised as a widow. There is a genuinely funny scene where Marie is disguised as a man to go meet her boyfriend disguised as a widow, and slapstick happens which results in Chester being found in his underpants with the widow in a barn.

  His Hidden Purpose

  1918 · 1 votes

• Movie10.0

  Comedy

  Young Dick is pursuing pretty young Mary, but so are a lot of other young men. Dick decides to impersonate her butler and uses that position to keep all of Mary's suitors out of the house so he can work on her himself. When his ruse is discovered, he is thrown out of the house. That, however, doesn't stop him. He gets the maid to help him concoct a story about Mary actually being bald and having false teeth, hoping to drive them away. It works, but it doesn't quite have the effect he intended it to.

  Call the Wagon

  1923 · 1 votes

• Movie6.5

  Comedy

  Neal hates to give up his evenings with "the boys." even for his wife Betty. She gets a burglar scare and insists on his staying home. However, he wants to go to a masked ball, so he gives her a powder, telling her it will make her sleep soundly. She slips the powder into his favorite decanter, hides his costume, and then retires. In the kitchen, the cook gives a policeman some of the doped whiskey. Neal takes the cop's coat, hat, and stick and starts for the ball. On the way he is called on to restrain a wife-beating husband. He gets a black eye, so decides to go home.

  Hubby's Night Out

  1917 · 2 votes

• Movie8.0

  Comedy

  Two competitive Scotsmen are neighbours. Trouble starts when a tax inspector announces his imminent arrival, and the Scotsmen have to stash their expensive furniture. As soon as one succeeds in hiding every last stick, the other figures out where to put his. In his neighbour's now empty house!

  Are Scotchmen Tight

  1929 · 1 votes

• Movie7.0

  Comedy

  Three young men, struggling to find their next meal, encounter a young lady with an injured ankle. One of the men is a doctor, who maintains a charade of success with his wealthy uncle, in which the uncle believes the young man to be well-off and married to a (fictitious) wife named Mary Jane Smith. The young doctor falls in love with the girl of the injured ankle and discovers that her name is Mary Jane Smith.

  Mary's Ankle

  1920 · 1 votes

• Movie5.0

  Comedy

  Neal and Betty are newlywed when her father dies. Betty goes to visit her mother and decides to take her to live with them. Neal, who has never met her, remonstrated furiously but in vain.

  The Making Over of Mother

  1916 · 1 votes

• Movie8.0

  Comedy

  Neal, while sitting in his room, notices an accident in the street and kindly goes to the man's rescue with his car and takes him to the hospital. The nurse assigned to the case, Billie, makes a great hit with Neal.

  Good Night, Nurse

  1916 · 1 votes

• Movie

  Comedy

  Henry is expecting the new cook and when Sally, his wife's sister, appears, he immediately shows her the kitchen and orders her to serve food. When Henry's wife learns this she fears to present him as her husband, commands him to masquerade as the butler and calls in a friend to pose as her husband. The "butler" puts soap into the soup with the result that the sister-in-law and the other man become ill. When fire breaks out in the house the sister-in-law is trapped in her room and Bill thinks the terrible heat he feels is the result of fever from his illness. The fire brings on a climax in which the fire department performs and a series of hilarious gags are introduced.

  Soup to Nuts

  1925