Wesley Ruggles
Yönetmen · 1889 – 1972 · Los Angeles, California, USA
Wesley Ruggles (June 11, 1889 – January 8, 1972) was an American film director. He was born in Los Angeles, a younger brother of actor Charles Ruggles. He began his career in 1915 as an actor, appearing in a dozen or so silent films, on occasion with Charles Chaplin. In 1917, he turned his attention to directing, making more than 50 mostly forgettable films — including a silent film version of Edith Wharton's novel The Age of Innocence (1924) — before he won acclaim with Cimarron in 1931. The adaptation of Edna Ferber's novel Cimarron, about homesteaders settling in the prairies of Oklahoma, was the first Western to win an Academy Award as Best Picture. Although Ruggles followed this success with the light comedy No Man of Her Own (1932) with Clark Gable and Carole Lombard, the comedy I'm No Angel (1933) with Mae West and Cary Grant , College Humor (1933) with Bing Crosby, and Bolero (1934) with George Raft and Carole Lombard, few of his later films were in any way memorable (an exception is Arizona). His career was on the downslide when he teamed with the Rank Organisation in 1946 to produce and direct London Town with Sid Field and Petula Clark, based on a story he wrote. The film — British cinema's first attempt at a Technicolor musical extravaganza — is notable as being one of the biggest critical and commercial failures in that country's film history. Ironically, Ruggles had been hired to helm it because as an American, it was thought, he was better equipped to handle a musical — despite the fact that nothing in his past had prepared him to work in the genre. It was his last film. An abridged version was released in the U.S. under the title My Heart Goes Crazy by United Artists in 1953. Ruggles died in 1972 in Santa Monica and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. Description above from the Wikipedia article Wesley Ruggles, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Film6.0KomediBir gemiye sahip olan Edna' nın babası, kendi gemisini batırarak sigortadan para almaya karar verir ve geminin kaptanıyla bu konuda anlaşır. Eve döndüğünde kızı Edna' yı bahçede serseri kılıklı sevgilisi Charlie ile görünce çok sinirlenir ve Charlie' yi evden kovar. Aşağılanan ve kovulan Charlie, canı sıkkın bir halde limanda dolaşırken Edna' nın babasının gemisindeki kaptana rastlar ve para kazanmak için ona gemiye tayfa bulmasıda yardımcı olur. Kaptan bulduğu gönülsüz tayfaları lafa tutarken Charlie de onların kafasına vurup bayıltmakta, böylece gemiye tayfa avlamaktadırlar. Fakat kaptan onu da kandırıp zor kullanarak gemiye alır. Bu sırada Edna da sevgilisini takip edip gizlice gemiye binmiştir. Charlie gemide tayfa ve mutfakta beceriksiz aşçı yardımcısı olarak çalışır. Edna' nın da yardımıyla gemiyi batıracak olan dinamitleri denize atarak gemiyi kurtarır.
Film5.0KomediAs Colonel Nutt is experimenting with explosives, a new janitor is joining his household. The inept janitor proceeds to make life difficult for the rest of staff.
Triple Trouble
1918 · 48 votes
Film6.2KomediTwo disruptive theater patrons, the wealthy drunk Mr. Pest (played by Charlie Chaplin) and the rowdy working-class Mr. Rowdy (also played by Chaplin), attend a live vaudeville theater production. Their constant antics, seat-hopping, and physical altercations quickly overshadow the acts on stage and plunge the entire theater into absolutely hilarious chaos.
A Night in the Show
1915 · 93 votes
Film6.7KomediA pawnbroker's assistant deals with his grumpy boss, his annoying co-worker and some eccentric customers as he flirts with the pawnbroker's daughter, until a perfidious crook with bad intentions arrives at the pawnshop.
The Pawnshop
1916 · 122 votes
Film6.3KomediCharlie is released from prison and immediately swindled by a fake parson. A fellow ex-convict convinces Charlie to help burglarize a house.
Police
1916 · 84 votes
Film6.5KomediRomantikDavid (Chaplin) bir sinemada Goliath (Cambell) adlı dekorcunun yardımcısı olarak çalışmaktadır. Aslında Goliath bütün işi yardımcısı David'e yaptırıp yan gelip yatmakta, patronu uğradığı sıralarda da çalışıyor görünmektedir. Bu sırada patronun kaba tavırlarına sinirlenen işçilerin bir kısmı bir grev başlatır. Goliath bu greve katılmaz ve sinemadaki bütün işleri üstlenir; yani bir anlamda hepsini David'e yükler. Bu sırada daha önce orada aktrist olarak iş arayan ve bulamayan Edna kargaşadan yararlanıp erkek kılığına girer ve dekorcu olarak çalışmaya başlar. David onun genç bir kız olduğunu anladığında Edna'yı öper fakat bu durumu gören Goliath onun genç bir erkeği öptüğünü sanır. Bu yüzden de David onu tekmeleyene dek aşırıya kaçan kadınsı hareketler yapıp onunla alay edecektir.
Film5.0KomediGussle (Syd Chaplin) comes home with a cute little dog but doesn't want the wife to see it--leading up to a rather funny bit you'll have to see for yourself. The marriage, at first, seems ideal and Gussle and his wife seem devoted. However, it soon seems that this is an act for Syd and it's obvious he's quite the philanderer. Eventually, the wife catches on and sets out to catch him--leading to a rather cute and unexpected ending.
Gussle's Wayward Path
1915 · 1 votes
Film6.0BelgeselA Trip Through the World's Greatest Motion Picture Studios (1920) presents a fascinating glimpse into the Thomas H. Ince studios at Culver City.
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Featuring Charlie Chaplin's half-brother as The Husband, Phyllis Allen as The Wife, Slim Summerville as The Boy Friend, Cecile Arnold as The Girl Friend, and Mack Swain as The Bartender.
Caught in a Park
1915 · 1 votes
Film5.7KomediMr. and Mrs. Gussle get up to some hijinks in this Keystone comedy.
A Lover's Lost Control
1915 · 3 votes
Film6.4KomediAn impecunious customer creates chaos in a department store while the manager and his assistant plot to steal the money kept in the establishment's safe.
Film5.0KomediA wealthy invalid tries to add his hard-working cook to his will, but the conniving butler gets in the way.
Her Torpedoed Love
1917 · 2 votes
Film4.9KomediA waiter tricks his way into command of a sub in order to rob a ship carrying gold bullion.
A Submarine Pirate
1915 · 5 votes
Film5.8KomediA stage-struck young woman becomes an heiress, and hopes to use her new-found wealth to fulfill a fantasy.
Her Painted Hero
1915 · 4 votes
Film5.0AksiyonMaceraBeatrice Fairfax, the original advice-to-the-lovelorn reporter and her friend and not-so-secret admirer Jimmy Barton investigate calls for help and escape exotic perils and dangers. Episodes include exciting and fun stories of baby-napping, blackmail, jewel thievery, disguise, counterfeiting, and the long-unseen episode featuring entrancing cult starlet Olive Thomas and the real New York Yankees and Giants playing a game in the Polo Grounds.
Beatrice Fairfax
1916 · 1 votes
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Gussle Rivals Jonah is a silent comedy