Fred Guiol

Fred Guiol

Total Credits at Criticker: 44 (Director), 18 (Writer)

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    Duck Soup
    Duck Soup (1927) - Short Film
    Laurel and Hardy are a couple of vagrants who, in order to avoid helping the nation fight a fire, break into a house.
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    Pass the Gravy
    Pass the Gravy (1928) - Short Film
    Schultz (Bert Sprotte) raises prize chickens and roosters that are always getting into neighbor Max Davidson's garden and eating the seeds, leading to constant feuding between the two men. When their children announce their engagement the two men decide to bury the hatchet and Davidson suggests a dinner at his house. (imdb)
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    45 Minutes from Hollywood
    A young man visiting Hollywood on family business gets into trouble when he sees a bank robbery in progress, and thinks it is a movie scene. (imdb)
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    Sailors Beware
    Sailors Beware (1927) - Short Film
    A con artist and a dwarf dressed as her infant son attempt to swindle money from passengers on board a cruise ship.
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    Slipping Wives
    Slipping Wives (1927) - Short Film
    Neglected by her husband, our heroine decides to make him jealous by getting the handyman (Laurel) to play a literary genius at a party and flirt with her. (imdb)
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    Love \
    Old flame (Busch) shows up to blackmail married businessman (Finlayson). He enlists a friend (Laurel) to keep her away from his home and wife. (imdb)
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    Why Girls Love Sailors
    Stan must rescue his girlfriend from a rough sea captain.
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    With Love and Hisses
    Stan is a new recruit in the army and must undergo the hardships placed upon him by the Sargent (Hardy) and the Captain (Finlayson).
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    Do Detectives Think?
    An escaped convict is out to kill the judge who sentenced him. Two inept detectives are hired to guard the judge. (imdb)
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    Sugar Daddies
    Sugar Daddies (1927) - Short Film
    Rich oil tycoon (Finlayson) awakens one morning, after a night of carousing, to be told that he was married the night before. (imdb)
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    The Second 100 Years
    Two convicts repeatedly attempt to escape from prison leading to disastrous consequences for themselves and others around them.
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    Their Purple Moment
    Stan and Ollie hold out money from their paychecks from their shrewish wives so they can enjoy a night out on the town... with predictable results. (imdb)
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    The Rainmakers
    Roscoe the Rainmaker is invited to California (with sidekick "Billy") to relieve a terrible dry spell and to save the community from an unscrupulous businessman who stands to profit from the drought. (imdb)
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    Don\
    Don't Park There was one of a series of two-reel comedies Will Rogers made for producer Hal Roach during the 1923-4 season. The story amounts to little more than a one-joke anecdote, but oddly enough the joke is more relevant now than it was in 1924: this is the tale of a man who can't run a simple errand in the city because he can't find a parking space. (imdb)
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    Hay Foot
    Colonel Barkley is very proud of his assistant, Sergeant Doubleday, who has a photographic memory. Doubleday shows off his book knowledge on firearms during a class given by Sergeant Ames, embarrassing him. Through a series of misunderstandings, Colonel Barkley thinks the gunshy Doubleday is an expert marksman, and he sets him up in a shooting match against Ames and Sergeant Cobb (the division's shooting champions)!
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    Along Came Auntie
    A divorced woman is set to receive $100,000 and quarts of diamonds from her divorce-disapproving aunt. Having taken in her first husband as a lodger, due to financial difficulties, and now living with her second husband, she must act to convince her aunt, that she is still married to her first husband, which is not taken gracefully by her second husband. (imdb)
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    Get \
    Get 'Em Young (1926) - Short Film
    Stan Laurel stars in this 1926 silent short film.
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    A Quiet Fourth
    A Quiet Fourth (1935) - Short Film
    An RKO comedy short featuring Betty Grable who gets secretly married while her family is trying to fix her up with someone wealthy.
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    Say It with Babies
    Casper is the baby-expert at a large department store and his life is less than peaceful as he provides much amusement for the babies at his own expense. On Sunday, he and his wife go on a picnic with the neighbors and hoe comes home on his day of rest with three traffic tickets and numerous stings from the hornets he failed to amuse. (imdb)
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    Here Comes Trouble
    A newspaper publisher (Emory Parnell) is being blackmailed by a burlesque queen (Joan Woodbury), and he sends one of his reporters (William Tracy) to talk to her. The girl is murdered and the reporter, the publisher and the publisher's daughter (Beverly Loyd) all come under suspicion. (imdb)
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    Miss Polly
    Mrs. Minerva Snodgrass heads up the town's Purity League and is so good at imposing restrictions of keeping the girls and boys apart that there hasn't been a marriage in the town in over two years. Her next-door neighbor, Miss Panadora Polly, aptly named based on what she lets out of the box later in the film, is doing her best to promote the romance between town-nerd Eddie and Minerva's daughter Barbara. (imdb)
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    Tanks a Million
    An Army draftee with a good memory makes sergeant and saves the day. (imdb)
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    Mummy\
    Wheeler & Woolsey comedy about two moronic ditch diggers, recruited for an archeology expedition, getting mixed up with jewel thieves and an ancient Egyptian "curse."
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    Sure-Mike!
    Sure-Mike! (1925) - Short Film
    Vermuda, a saleswoman in a department store, is very late for work. She relies on a ruse to fool the floorwalker, and when that doesn't work, she relies on her friendship with the store manager. But she is soon disillusioned as to where she really stands with the manager. (imdb)
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    Skirt Shy
    Skirt Shy (1929) - Short Film
    Harry must pose as a woman to help the women he works for get a marriage proposal. (imdb)
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    The Fighting Parson
    Harry is mistaken for "The Fighting Parson" in a tough western town. (imdb)
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    The Head Guy
    The Head Guy (1930) - Short Film
    Harry is made the temporary stationmaster in a small town. (imdb)
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    Feed \
    Anita & Marion take a temporary job as waitresses in Max's diner, next to a train station. When the train stops off, pandemonium erupts when the passengers fill the diner and all want meals immediately. (imdb)
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    Silly Billies
    The boys are a dentist and his assistant traveling to the Old West to open a new practice. Once in town, they buy a business-only to wake up the next day and see that the entire population of this bustling town had left for the California gold fields early that morning! Then, they discover an evil plot to sell out these settlers to some hostile Indians, so they spring to the rescue. (imdb)
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    Mr. Walkie Talkie
    An exasperated sergeant has to deal with a GI trainee who remembers everything he has ever heard.
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    Heavy Seas
    Heavy Seas (1923) - Short Film
    Second release in 'The Spat Family' series of 2-reel comedies. In this episode the three of them win a yacht in a tombola and quarrel over the captaincy while Mrs TS goes swimming and risks getting lost.
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    Tell It to a Policeman
    Two young lovers (Glenn Tryon and Blanche Mehaffey) are at home when a policeman (James Finlayson) comes to the door and begins telling them his life story.
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    Limousine Love
    Limousine Love (1928) - Short Film
    On the way to his wedding the bride groom finds a nude, married woman in his car.
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    The Great Outdoors
    The Spats go on a camping trip that begins with the destruction of their cabin and ends with them being pursued by bandits, a railroad bull, and the police. "The Great Outdoors" is the fourth episode of "The Spat Family" series.
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    Long Pants
    Long Pants (1926) - Short Film
    A young man, discovering "long Pants" for the first time, brings home a loose woman to meet the folks. (imdb)
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    The Battling Orioles
    A young barber's girlfriend falls into the clutches of a shady nightclub owner and his cohorts, who plan to get her involved in their nefarious schemes. When his efforts to rescue her prove futile, he enlists the help of his father, who was at one time a professional baseball player, and his former teammates to save her.
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    Live and Learn
    Live and Learn (1930) - Short Film
    A jealous husband endeavors to reach his wife who is quarantined in an apartment with her former spouse.
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    Traffic Tangle
    Traffic Tangle (1930) - Short Film
    A drive in a new car with the family turns into a fiasco.
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    Raised and Called
    Chandler induces Kennedy to ask the boss for a raise, and to pretend he is married, because the chief has a soft spot for his married employees. So Tom gets a $10 raise, and then the boss invites himself out to his house for dinner and to meet the missus, whereupon it becomes necessary for the boys to produce a wife in a hurry, and a dizzy blonde cutie from next door is elected.
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    Breakfast in Bed
    A woman, affectionately called Blondie by her husband, hires a cook called Blondie by both her boyfriends. When all five end up in the house at the same time, romantic complications ensue.
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    Disappearing Enemies
    A pair of newlyweds discover his Uncle/her Aunt were once engaged to be married and are now enemies. Both are coming over to visit and spend the night.
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    Horse Heir
    Horse Heir (1935) - Short Film
    Chick is trying to sell his cheap horse to a lady with a grating and annoying voice...sort of like Betty Boop. Jeanie is married to Tom and apparently she got the money from him. However, the pair accidentally take the wrong horse...instead of a broken down nag, it's a top racehorse. When they find out, they do their best to hide it by painting the horse. Hilarity ensues...or should have ensued.
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    Meet the Missus
    Meet the Missus (1924) - Short Film
    A young married couple (Glenn Tryon and Blanche Mehaffey) with no money and lots of time for fighting try to impress the husbands boss.
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    As You Were
    Oh, those Army daze and nights! An infusion of WAC beauties adds to the fun when ex-G.I. "Dodo" Doubleday (William Tracy), now a hotel clerk, impresses Army brass with his memory and considers going back into the military. But recruiting station sergeant Bill Ames (Joe Sawyer), remembering how Tracy jinxed him back in WWII days, begs him not to re-enlist!
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