John Rand

John Rand

Total Credits at Criticker: 11 (Actor)

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    The Cure
    The Cure (1917) - Short Film
    Charlie goes to a spa to dry out, but he takes a trunk of liquor with him. He tangles with another's gouty foot in a revolving door. Later he thinks the gouty man is making love signs to him (he doesn't Edna, the real object of the man's efforts), so he signs back. He interpets a massage to be a wrestling match. When management throws his liquor into the fountain, when flow the healthful waters, everyone gets drunk. (imdb)
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    The Idle Class
    The Idle Class (1921) - Short Film
    Chaplin plays a tramp who sneaks into a upper class golf resort. The tramp meets a rich woman (Edna Purviance) who is having an argument with her drunken husband (also played by Chaplin). Complications arise when she mistakes the tramp for her husband. (imdb)
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    The Pawnshop
    The Pawnshop (1916) - Short Film
    Charlie competes with his fellow shop assistant. He is fired by the pawnbroker and rehired. He nearly destroys everything in the shop and and himself. He helps capture a burglar. He destroys a client's clock while examining it in detail. (imdb)
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    Police
    Police (1916) - Short Film
    Charlie is released from prison and immediately swindled by a fake parson. A fellow ex-convict convinces Charlie to help burglarize a house, but Edna, the house's owner, catches them and calls the police. Charlie, however, manages to charm his way out of trouble .... at least for the moment. (imdb)
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    Astray from the Steerage
    While an immigrant couple are detained by authorities to see if they're fit, a smuggler tries to sneak a bottle into their luggage, but he accidentally gets trapped inside, and gets sent to the house where the new Americans will work. (imdb)
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    Charlie Chaplin\
    A gypsy seductress is sent to sway a goofy officer to allow a smuggling run. (imdb)
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    Fast and Furious
    Lige Conley stars in "Fast and Furious" (1924), a fast-paced silent comedy. Conley's sidekick in this film, as with several in this series of "Mermaid" comedies Conley made for Educational and Jack White, is African-American character actor Spencer Bell. The chase in reel two lifts a number of gags from Buster Keaton films.
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    His Taking Ways
    His Taking Ways (1926) - Short Film
    His Taking Ways is one of four films made for Biff Comedies, owned by independent producer Samuel Bischoff. Al St. John plays a hearing-impaired burglar who bumbles his way through a suburban break-in. One wonders how a criminal of such incompetence could be responsible for a "200 per cent" increase in burglary, but the premise is just an excuse for St. John to obliviously destroy household furnishings.
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    Almost a Scandal
    A comic one-act film in which affairs of the heart lead to a duel, and a chase. Amorous entanglements between Billy Ritchie and the wife of an overweight man, who himself has been flirting. In a restaurant, this all comes to a denouement that leads to a duel and a chase.
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    The No-Account Count
    A short comic film in which the Count has found a bride, namely Mr. Krapaan's extravagant daughter. A tramp then steals his clothes, and goes to the wedding in the Count's place. Krapaan wants his extravagant daughter to marry Count De Bluffe, whom he believes to be wealthy. When De Bluffe is taking a bath, his clothes are stolen by a tramp. The tramp then pretends to the Krapaan family that he is the Count, but is unmasked by the real De Bluffe.
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    The Weirdo
    After years of torment and torture, a disturbed young man snaps and takes out his frustration in particularly violent ways.
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