Edward F. Cline — Director (40)
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What's Cookin'? (1942)
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Edward F. Cline actor: Patty Andrews / Maxene Andrews …
J. P. Courtney wants to update the music on the radio program he sponsors, but his wife, Agatha Courtney, is the final authority and addicted to the classics and won't allow him to replace Professor Bistell and his symphonic orchestra. Conspiring with his daughter Sue and her friends, Marvo the Great, the Andrews Sisters, Anne Payne and bandleader Woody Herman, they devise a sabotage plot that gets rid of Professor Bistell, and a new sound is soon heard on the program.
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Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941)
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Edward F. Cline actor: W.C. Fields / Gloria Jean …
other title: Gib einem Trottel keine Chance / Passez muscade …
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break is a 1941 film about a man who wants to sell a film story to Esoteric Studios. On the way he gets insulted by little boys, beaten up for ogling a woman, and abused by a waitress. W. C. Fields' last starring role in a feature-length film.
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You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939)
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Edward F. Cline / George Marshall actor: W.C. Fields / Edgar Bergen …
other title: Ehrlich währt am längsten / A mí no me engaña nadie …
Fields plays "Larsen E. Whipsnade", the owner of a shady carnival that is constantly on the run from the law. Whipsnade is struggling to keep a step ahead of foreclosure, and clearly not paying his performers, including Bergen and McCarthy, who try to coax money out of him, or in McCarthy's case, steal some outright.
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Cracked Nuts (1931)
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Edward F. Cline actor: Bert Wheeler / Robert Woolsey …
To impress his fiancee's aunt, a young man tries to become king in a small kingdom, but the people there have already crowned one, who has won this honor by gambling. So he plans a coup d'etat. He tries to achieve this with a bomb, but then something goes wrong...
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Crazy House (1943)
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Edward F. Cline actor: Ole Olsen / Chic Johnson …
other title: Fantasmas rumberos / Symphonie loufoque
Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names evacuates the studio and terrorizes the management and personnel. Undaunted, the comedians hire an assistant director and unknown talent, and set out to make their own movie.
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The Good Bad Boy (1924)
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Edward F. Cline actor: Joe Butterworth / Mary Jane Irving …
Billy Benson has a reputation as a "bad boy" largely due to his habit of winding up in fist fights. Billy is usually fighting to defend his dad's reputation. John Benson is the town ne'er-do-well: a failed inventor who has labored the past 20 years on what he believes is a revolutionary fire extinguisher. Wealthy businessman Walter Howe realizes that it really is a million-dollar idea, and plots...
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Breaking the Ice (1938)
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Edward F. Cline actor: Bobby Breen / Dolores Costello …
other title: 突破坚冰 / 突破堅冰 …
The story begins while Tommy Martin and his mother, Martha Martin say goodbye to Henry and Reuben Johnson. After having stopped by the Mennonite farm, where Tommy and Martha stay with the William and Annie Decker, the Johnsons are headed back to their hometown of Goshen. The balance of the film is concerned with both trying to get the necessary train fare and with Tommy clearing his name over a misunderstanding.
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Hawaii Calls (1938)
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Edward F. Cline actor: Bobby Breen / Ned Sparks …
other title: 檀島春光
After being nabbed while trying to stow away on board an ocean liner en route to Hawaii, young Bobby Breen sings for his travel fare and, along with sidekick Pua, turns detective to recover stolen naval documents from crooks
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Captain January (1924)
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Edward F. Cline actor: Hobart Bosworth / Baby Peggy …
other title: El capitán Alegría / Capitaine Janvier …
During a tempestuous storm, a lighthouse keeper finds an infant girl who washes ashore tied to some wreckage. He adopts her and they become inseparable. Eventually her real family finds her and wants her to live with them.
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In the Next Room (1930)
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爱德华·克莱因 actor: Jack Mulhall / Alice Day …
The story starts with a prologue set in 1889 in which we see an angry husband murdering his wife's lover. The setting then moves to 1929, just as an antiques dealer Philip Vantine (John St. Polis) has finished moving into the same house where the 1889 murder occurred.
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Hook, Line and Sinker (1930)
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Edward F. Cline actor: Bert Wheeler / Robert Woolsey …
other title: 放长线，钓大鱼 / Un hotel de cuidado
Two fast-talking insurance salesmen meet Mary, who is running away from her wealthy mother, and they agree to help her run a hotel that she owns. When they find out that the hotel is run down and nearly abandoned, they launch a phony PR campaign that presents the hotel as a resort favored by the rich. Their advertising succeeds too well, and many complications soon arise.
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My Little Chickadee (1948)
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爱德华·克莱因 actor: 梅·韦斯特
other title: 我的小山雀 / 마이 리틀 치커디 …
On her way by stagecoach to visit relatives out west, Flower Belle Lee is held up by a masked bandit who also takes the coach's shipment of gold. When he abducts Flower Belle and they arrive in town, Flower Belle is suspected of being in collusion with the bandit.