James W. Horne — Director (28)
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Mister Mugg (1933) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Mister Mugg
director: James W. Horne
other title: 马格先生 / 馬格先生
Mister Mugg is a 1933 short American pre-Code comedy film directed by James W. Horne. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 6th Academy Awards in 1933 for Best Short Subject (Comedy). Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division, in 2012.
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Our Wife (1931) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Our Wife
director: James W. Horne actor: Stan Laurel / Oliver Hardy …
other title: Dick und Doof - Die Braut wird geklaut / Laurel et Hardy - Justes noces …
Oliver is making plans to marry his sweetheart Dulcy with Stan as his best man, but the plans are thwarted when Dulcy's father sees a picture of Ollie and forbids the marriage. The couple plan to elope, and run away to a Justice of the Peace. After typical Laurel and Hardy blundering, they manage to sneak the girl away from her father's house.
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One Good Turn (1931) WikiData IMDb TMDB
One Good Turn
director: James W. Horne actor: Stan Laurel / Oliver Hardy …
other title: Dick und Doof als Retter in der Not / Laurel et Hardy - Les Deux Campeurs …
Down and out Stan and Ollie beg for food from a friendly old lady who provides them with sandwiches. While eating, they overhear the lady's landlord tell her he's going to throw her out because she can't pay her mortgage. They don't realize that the old lady is really rehearsing for a play. Stan and Ollie decide to help the old lady by selling their car. During the auction a drunk puts a wallet in Stan's pocket. Ollie accuses Stan of robbing the old lady, but when the truth is revealed Stan takes revenge on Ollie.
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The Girl Detective (1915) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Girl Detective
director: James W. Horne actor: Ruth Roland / Marin Sais …
other title: 少女探偵の冒険
A series of 2-reel thrillers in which a society girl has a position as a special investigator for the police and works on various cases where her unique talents can help to solve crimes. Each episode is complete in itself.
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Captain Midnight (1942) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Captain Midnight
director: James W. Horne actor: Dave O'Brien / Dorothy Short …
other title: Captain Midnight (seriado)
Secret Service Major Steel is one of the few men in America aware of the fact that Captain Albright is also Captain Midnight, daring masked aviator dedicated to fighting gangsters and enemies of America.
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Madame Sans Jane (1925) IMDb TMDB
Madame Sans Jane
director: James W. Horne actor: Glenn Tryon / Fay Wray …
A young couple want to marry, but the girl's father doesn't like her beau. To separate them, the father arranges to send the girl on a sea voyage along with a female companion. But the beau, dressed as a woman, manages to fool the father into hiring him as the companion, and they all board the ship together.
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The King (1930) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The King
director: Charley Rogers / James W. Horne actor: Harry Langdon / Thelma Todd …
The king is a juvenile dolt who tries the patience of the shrewish queen. While she's in the throne room awaiting him, he's outside playing with guns, drilling his soldiers, and dallying with the wife of a new minister. The queen catches him kissing her, her husband figures out that something fishy is going on, and the king tries his best to proceed with his plans for a night out. The queen contrives to keep him cuffed in the bedroom: king, queen, minister, and coquette end up in a game of musical beds. Will his royal highness get his night out?
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When the Wind Blows (1930) WikiData IMDb TMDB
When the Wind Blows
director: James W. Horne actor: Norman Chaney / Jackie Cooper …
Jackie throws his schoolbook out the window in disgust, but then climbs outside to retrieve it. Finding himself locked out, he tries various means of getting back inside without his parents finding out. When his parents mistake his noises for a burglar, a local policeman is called, but he seems incompetent to catch either the phony burglar or the real one who has shown up in the meantime
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The Skulls (1931) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Los calaveras
director: James W. Horne actor: Stan Laurel / Oliver Hardy …
other title: Los calaveras / Los Calaveras
This Spanish language film was produced simultaneously with the filming of the two English language Laurel and Hardy shorts Be Big! and Laughing Gravy. The two shorts were edited together into one continuous film. Laurel and Hardy read their lines from cue cards on which Spanish was written phonetically. At the time of early talkies, dubbing was not yet perfected.
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Be Big! (1931) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Be Big!
director: 詹姆斯·韦斯利·霍恩 actor: Stan Laurel / Oliver Hardy …
other title: Dick und Doof - Die Qual mit den Stiefeln / Laurel Et Hardy - Drôles de bottes …
Stan and Ollie are on their way to Atlantic City with their wives, when Ollie gets a phone call from a lodge buddy telling him that a stag party is taking place that night in their honor. Ollie pretends to be sick and sends the wives on ahead, promising that he and Stan will meet them in the morning. The pair dress in their lodge gear, but their wives return having missed their train. With no obvious escape route, Stan and Ollie take to a bed in fear and in response to Stan's plea of "What'll I do?", Ollie replies "Be big!".
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Any Old Port! (1932) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Any Old Port!
director: 詹姆斯·韦斯利·霍恩 actor: Stan Laurel / Oliver Hardy …
other title: Dick und Doof gehen vor Anker / Laurel et Hardy - Stan boxeur …
Stan and Ollie check into a seedy hotel and help a young girl escape the clutches of the landlord. They are forced to flee the hotel with no money and Ollie arranges for Stan to fight at a local boxing hall for $50. Stan's opponent turns out to be Musgy who uses a loaded glove. During the fight the glove is swapped and Stan triumphs only to find that Ollie has bet their fee that he would lose.
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Come Clean (1931) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Come Clean
director: 詹姆斯·韦斯利·霍恩 actor: Stan Laurel / Oliver Hardy …
other title: Dick und Doof - In die Falle gelockt / Laurel Et Hardy - Toute la vérité …
The Hardys wish to have a quiet evening in their apartment, but are interrupted when the Laurels pay a visit. Stan and Ollie go out for ice cream, and manage to prevent a shrewish woman from committing suicide on the way back home. The woman is ungrateful and makes threats against the them unless they look after her. They spend a chaotic evening trying to keep her hidden from their wives.
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Thicker Than Water (1935) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Thicker Than Water
director: 詹姆斯·韦斯利·霍恩 actor: Stan Laurel / Oliver Hardy …
other title: Laurel und Hardy: Zum Nachtisch weiche Birne / Laurel et Hardy - Qui dit mieux ! …
Oliver's in trouble with his wife after missing a payment on their furniture, having given the money to Stanley, who used it instead to pay Mrs. Hardy for his room and board. At Stan's suggestion Ollie then withdraws the couple's savings from the bank to pay for the furniture and inadvertently pays virtually the whole amount at an auction for a grandfather clock which is soon crushed under a passing truck. Mrs Hardy then unintentionally causes serious injuries to Ollie requiring him to be rushed to hospital for a blood transfusion. The doctor conscripts Stan to be the unwilling blood donor. Problems occur with the transfusion and when Stan and Ollie leave the hospital they appear to have morphed into each other.