Harry Bowen

Harry Bowen

Total Credits at Criticker: 36 (Actor), 1 (Director)

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    Three Little Pigskins
    The stooges are mistaken by a gangster for the "Three Horsemen of Boulder Dam", famous football players. Hired to play for his team, they blow the big game and get it in the end. Lucille Ball has a nice part as a gun moll. (imdb)
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    Crashin\
    When Tad Wallace's act flops on Broadway, he joins a troop heading west. In a small town they run into Jeffries who has just burned down the theater. When Jeffries kills Griswold, Tad has a plan to trap him by using the talents of Shakespearian actor Thorndyke. (imdb)
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    A Lad an\
    Filled with stories of Aladdin's magic lamp, the gang starts rubbing every lamp in sight in hopes of finding the one with the magic which leads the gang to think they've found the magic lamp, and a helpful vaudeville magician augments the illusion. Spanky decides to wish that Stymie's little brother Cotton was a monkey, an escaped chimpanzee shows up and frightens Cotton. The gang believes the wish has come true and mayhem ensues as they try to keep the police from shooting the runaway simian. (imdb)
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    Your Own Back Yard
    Your Own Back Yard is a 1925 American short silent comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan. It was the 43rd Our Gang short subject released. (en.wikipedia.org)
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    Thundering Fleas
    The kids from Our Gang have to attend a wedding, and they bring along their flea collection--which gets loose. (imdb)
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    Monkey Business
    Monkey Business (1926) - Short Film
    An abused chimpanzee escapes from a zoo. On the run, he meets Farina, running away from home and his battling parents. The two become friends and inspire the rest of the gang to put on a show to make money from neighborhood kids. But the chimp has his own idea and runs off creating havoc all over town until chased down by the local cops. (imdb)
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    Shivering Spooks
    The kids are playing baseball when a man dressed in Middle-Eastern clothing comes out and tells them to be quiet. They join Mary, Farina, and Scooter in the gang's hide-out while Mary is reading ghost stories. While on the other side of the wall, the Arab-looking man is cheating people out of their money by staging a fake séance using state-of-the-art special effects. The cave entrance for the gang's hide-out collapses, so they light candles and dig into the wall, entering into the house. (imdb)
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    The Timid Young Man
    Milton, a disappointed romantic, has sworn off women. He gives a lift to a female hitchhiker, whom he happily discovers is also a hurt soul and has sworn off men. Their trip together runs into interference from an aggressive driver who later reappears after the two have set up camp. He starts putting the moves on the woman, but when Milton's ex-girlfriend shows up, she gets into a fight with the interloper and gives Milton and his new pal the chance to slip away.
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    Dream Stuff
    Dream Stuff (1933) - Short Film
    Walter Catlett is the cousin to some squeaky voiced Dagwood Bumstead type who can't get a girl. Can he browbeat his cousin into swiping pretty girl from accomplished gunman, boxer, and horseman Franklin Pangborn (!?), or is that just DREAM STUFF? (imdb)
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    Who\
    Mr. Brown is riding home from work one day with his new neighbor, Mr. Johnson. When Brown explains that he has all kinds of problems at home, Johnson wants to help him. So, when they arrive, Johnson gives Brown a demonstration of one of the tricks that he uses to get his family to act as he wishes them too. But when Brown tries out Johnson's ideas on his own, things do not go as planned. (imdb)
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    Just a Pain in the Parlor
    Harry Sweet stars as a hick Olympic hero who is housed in a high society mansion and causes havoc to the high brow party in progress.
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    Missing Girls
    A group of gangsters shoot Senator Benson (Wallis Clark) and take his daughter, Dorothy Benton (Muriel Evans) and her friend Ann Jason (Ann Doran) as hostages at Ma Barton's hideout. Reporter Jimmie Dugan (Roger Pryor) shows up disguised as a tramp. (imdb)
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    The Glorious Fourth
    The Glorious Fourth is a 1927 American short silent comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan. It was the 62nd Our Gang short subject released. (imdb)
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    The Dummy Owner
    The Dummy Owner (1938) - Short Film
    Leon's boss buys a racehorse, but doesn't want word to get out that he is the owner, so he has the papers filled out showing Leon as the owner of record. At first, Leon is excited, but the arrangement soon creates difficulty for him. First, he knows nothing about horses except how to bet on them, and second, when his wife finds out, she is furious. (imdb)
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    Rainbow Ranch
    An emergency at his Aunt's ranch gets Ed Randall leave from the Navy. He returns to find the water cut off and her note due the next day. When the man he seeks legal advice from is murdered, Ed is accused and he now finds himself in jail with a lynch mob forming outside. (imdb)
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    Grandma\
    Grandma's Buoys (1936) - Short Film
    Tom and Harry are sailors on a yacht, and go ashore for a few beers and whatever else may come up. What comes up is a brawl between them and the barflies in the waterfront saloon they go to. They are aided by an elderly lady and her knitting needles.
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    Sing Sister Sing
    At a residence hotel, Patsy is moving in with Thelma. Thelma has prepared some rules, including singing whenever one feels quarrelsome or angry. Although Thelma tells Patsy that they'll share everything, there's precious little closet or drawer space for Patsy's clothes, little room to maneuver around Thelma in the bathroom, and then a sleepless night for Patsy when Thelma goes sleepwalking. Can they share and share alike, or will Patsy keep on singing? (imdb)
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    Snug in the Jug
    Snug in the Jug (1933) - Short Film
    A mob boss is ready to kill when he discovers a pair of ex-cons pasting up his wanted poster all over town. (imdb)
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    The Dancing Millionaire
    A thuggish gangster, trying to prove that he's "sophisticated", gets the girls to help him to win a local dancing competition.
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    All Business
    All Business (1936) - Short Film
    Another hotel-room mix-up with the suspicious wife, Grace King (Josephine Whittell), checking up on her husband, Ford King (Ford Sterling),who is trying to sell his jewelry line to a lady buyer, Frances Brown (Kitty McHugh). The house detective (Edgar Dearing) gets involved and the room-service waiter, (Billy Dooley), constantly gets himself and his tray knocked over.
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    One of the Smiths
    Charley, representing a manufacturer of musical instruments, is sent to investigate why certain mail orders have not been settled. Charley, carrying multiple bulky instruments, boards a train and gives the conductor, the porter, and the passengers a terrible night as he tries to settle into his upper berth. Arriving at his rural destination of Beaver Dam, Charley masquerades as a hillbilly to track down the missing instruments. At the barn dance, he sings "Handsome Jim."
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    Dummy Ache
    Dummy Ache (1936) - Short Film
    Knowing that her husband, Edgar, would disapprove of her starring in a play, Florence acts very suspicious about where she is going when a rehearsal comes up. Edgar follows her to the home of co-star Al St. Claire and spies while they enact a scene in which Florence discovers that her lover is married to Lois (Lucille Ball).
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    Music in Your Hair
    Billy Gilbert and Billy Bletcher play neighbors who go to a speak easy to see Gilbert's son perform.
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    Pan Handlers
    Pan Handlers (1936) - Short Film
    The girls get jobs selling aluminum cookware door to door.
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    Public Ghost #1
    Public Ghost #1 (1935) - Short Film
    Charley is hired to haunt a house.
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    Lime Juice Nights
    Karl Dane & George K. Arthur trading places while dining.
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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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    Ice-cream vendor Charley gets mixed up with a cute girl and her snotty nephew.
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    It Happened One Day
    Charley meets his new boss--who has a lovely daughter.
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    Vamp Till Ready
    Vamp Till Ready (1936) - Short Film
    Charley's somewhat prudish wife pretends to be a party girl.
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    Snappy Sneezer
    Snappy Sneezer (1929) - Short Film
    Charley falls in love with Thelma, but his attack of hay fever alienates her father.
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    Crazy Feet
    Crazy Feet (1929) - Short Film
    Charley intervenes in a fight between Eddie and Thelma inside her small car. Cop Kennedy misinterprets things, and Charley hides in the theatre Thelma is rehearsing in. Charley replaces Eddie as Thelma's partner in an artistic dance act, and makes a fiasco of it.
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    The Giddy Age
    The Giddy Age (1932) - Short Film
    A quirky short about love and liars.
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    Easy on the Eyes
    A Mack Sennett Talking Comedy, released through Paramount Pictures, starring Franklin Pangborn and featuring Dorothy Granger.
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    Studio Sap
    Studio Sap (1931) - Short Film
    Chester Conklin gets a job in the props department of a movie studio. Soon he gets into all sorts of trouble.
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    The Cracked Ice Man
    Charley finds that he got more than he bargained for when he takes a job as a kindergarten teacher.
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