Hal Roach — Director (13)
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Road Show (1941) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Road Show
director: Hal Roach actor: Adolphe Menjou / Carole Landis …
other title: Vidas ambulantes / Histoire de fous
Rich playboy Drogo Gaines is in imminent danger of marrying a gold digger, and escapes by feigning insanity. The joke's on him when he wakes up in an asylum full of comical lunatics. There he befriends Colonel Carraway, and together they escape, catching a ride with a beautiful blonde who proves to be Penguin Moore, carnival owner.
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An Eastern Westerner (1920) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
An Eastern Westerner
director: Hal Roach actor: Harold Lloyd / Mildred Davis …
other title: Ein Westernheld aus dem Osten / Pour le cœur de Jenny …
A young man in New York has exasperated his father because of his constant carousing and irresponsibility, so his father sends him to his uncle's ranch in the west. The young man arrives in the town of Piute Pass, which is being terrorized by Tiger Lip Tompkins and his gang, the Masked Angels. The Easterner befriends a young woman whose father is being held captive by Tompkins, and he decides to help her.
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Number, Please? (1920) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Number, Please?
director: Hal Roach actor: Harold Lloyd / Mildred Davis …
other title: Comiche Americane / Die Nummer, bitte? …
While at an amusement park, trying vainly to forget the girl he has lost, a young man sees the girl with her new boyfriend. When her dog gets loose in the park, both suitors have to help her catch it. Then, the girl's uncle, a balloonist, gives her a pass for two in his balloon, provided that her mother approves. She then offers to take along the first of her admirers who is able to get her mother's consent.
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Captain Kidd's Kids (1919) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Captain Kidd's Kids
director: Hal Roach actor: Harold Lloyd / Bebe Daniels …
other title: Harold chez les pirates / Captain Kidds Kinder …
After a wild bachelor party, our hero finds himself aboard a sailing vessel where he encounters numerous adventures. In a dream sequence, he fantasizes that the ship is seized by a band of female pirates.
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Ask Father (1919) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Ask Father
director: Hal Roach actor: Harold Lloyd / Bebe Daniels …
other title: On n'entre pas / Habla con papá
Lloyd is a serious young middle-class guy on the make who wants to marry the boss’ daughter. The problem is getting in to see the boss so that he can ask for her hand in marriage as the office is guarded by a bunch of comic, clumsy flunkies who throw everyone out who tries to get in.
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Spring Fever (1919) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Spring Fever
director: Hal Roach actor: Harold Lloyd / Harry 'Snub' Pollard …
other title: Coquin de printemps / Frühlingstage
Harold is a bookkeeper who works in an office but can't keep his mind on his job -- the spring weather is too nice to stay indoors. After escaping from his office he romps in the park instead.