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Pardon Us (1931), Tais-toi! (2003), Skippy (1931), Crashing Hollywood (1938), Two Arabian Knights (1927), Johnny Dangerously (1984), Riffraff (1935) ... Let's take a look at the following list...

Pardon Us (1931)

Pardon Us (1931)

7.0/10 Comedy

Two guys end up in prison after attempting to sell beer to a policeman during Prohibition.

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Tais-toi! (2003)

Tais-toi! (2003)

7.1/10 Comedy, Crime

One prisoner tells to another that he hid a very large amount of money before the arrest. Together they manage to escape, but this is where their adventures are just beginning.

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Skippy (1931)

Skippy (1931)

6.2/10 Comedy, Drama

Skippy, the mischievous son of a wealthy doctor, meets Sooky in poverty-ridden Shantytown, and together they try to save Sooky's pet from a cruel dogcatcher.

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Crashing Hollywood (1938)

Crashing Hollywood (1938)

6.1/10 Comedy

An ex-con, just out of prison, and his wife meet a screen writer on the train and decide that, since he's writing about crime without knowing much about it, collaborating with him would be better than starting a duck farm. Things get a bit sticky when the real gangsters show up and want to know how Hollywood knows so much about them.

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Two Arabian Knights (1927)

Two Arabian Knights (1927)

6.7/10 Adventure, Comedy, Romance

Two American soldiers are captured by the Germans on the Western Front during World War One and escape a POW camp only to stumble into further life-threatening adventures when they come across an Arabian king's daughter while on the lam.

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Johnny Dangerously (1984)

Johnny Dangerously (1984)

6.5/10 Comedy, Crime

Set in the 1930s, an honest, goodhearted man is forced to turn to a life of crime to finance his neurotic mother's skyrocketing medical bills.

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Riffraff (1935)

Riffraff (1935)

6.3/10 Comedy, Drama

Fisherman Dutch marries cannery worker Hattie. He quits his poorly paid job to concentrate on getting better working conditions as union leader. Unfortunately, the union members disagree with Dutch's ideas and kick him out. Without a job or union card to get another he leaves Hattie to look for work. Hattiee steals money to help him when she learns he is really down o...Read all

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The Gay Desperado (1936)

The Gay Desperado (1936)

6.2/10 Musical, Comedy

Chivo, a singer who works in a movie theater providing live entertainment, is invited by music-loving Mexican bandit Braganza to join his band. Braganza also kidnaps people to become more like the American movie gangsters he admires.

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Love on the Run (1936)

Love on the Run (1936)

8.0/10 Comedy

Rival newsmen (Clark Gable, Franchot Tone) and an American heiress (Joan Crawford) get mixed up with spies in Europe.

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Pack Up Your Troubles (1932)

Pack Up Your Troubles (1932)

7.3/10 Comedy

Two war veterans help an orphaned child find her grandfather.

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The Ghost Breakers (1940)

The Ghost Breakers (1940)

7.2/10 Mystery, Comedy, Thriller

A radio broadcaster, his quaking manservant and an heiress investigate the mystery of a haunted castle in Cuba.

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Little Miss Marker (1934)

Little Miss Marker (1934)

7.1/10 Comedy

Bookie Sorrowful Jones receives a little girl as an IOU.

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The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938)

The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938)

7.0/10 Comedy

A brilliant Park Avenue doctor becomes a criminal in order to do research into the criminal mind.

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Two Way Stretch (1960)

Two Way Stretch (1960)

7.0/10 Comedy

Dodger Lane (Peter Sellers) has planned the perfect robbery while in prison. He intends to break out of prison, steal a fortune in diamonds, and break back into prison before anyone notices. With only a few days' sentence left, and the perfect alibi, what could possibly go wrong?

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The Flying Deuces (1939)

The Flying Deuces (1939)

6.9/10 Comedy

Ollie has fallen in love with the innkeeper's daughter in Paris. The only problem - she's very much in love with her husband. To forget her he joins the Foreign Legion with Stan. Bad idea.

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Min and Bill (1930)

Min and Bill (1930)

6.8/10 Comedy, Drama

Min, the owner of a dockside hotel, is forced to make difficult decisions about the future of Nancy, the young woman she took in as an infant.

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Jimmy the Gent (1934)

Jimmy the Gent (1934)

6.8/10 Comedy, Drama

An unpolished racketeer, whose racket is finding heirs for unclaimed fortunes, affects ethics and tea-drinking manners to win back the sweetheart who now works for his seemingly upright competitor.

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It All Came True (1940)

It All Came True (1940)

6.7/10 Musical, Comedy

After crooked nightclub owner Chips Maguire murders a police informant, he blackmails his piano player to allow him to stay at his eccentric mother's boarding house.

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