Charley Bowers Collection (17 Films) ( Egged On / He Done His Best / A Wild Roomer / Fatal Footsteps / Many a Slip / Nothing Doing / Now You Tell One / There It Is / The Extra-Quick Lunch (Grill-Room Express) ) ( Whoozit / Say Ah-h! / Believe it or Don't / Wild Oysters / Sleepless Night / A.W.O.L. / It's a Bird / Oil, Can and Does! )

Charley Bowers Collection (17 Films) (Blu-Ray) (*)

$28.99

Original Title: Egged On / He Done His Best / A Wild Roomer / Fatal Footsteps / Many a Slip / Nothing Doing / Now You Tell One / There It Is / The Extra-Quick Lunch (Grill-Room Express)
Alternate Title: Whoozit / Say Ah-h! / Believe it or Don't / Wild Oysters / Sleepless Night / A.W.O.L. / It's a Bird / Oil, Can and Does!
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )
Serbian ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
149 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Black & White
Remastered
Blu-Ray & DVD Combo

Movie filmed in 1918 - 1941 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Charles R. Bowers
Harold L. Muller

Written By:
Charles R. Bowers
Corinne Powers
Ricca Allen
Eddie Dunn
Kolin Kelly
Cornelius MacSunday
Dan Duffy
Frank Donnelly
Maureen McCoy
Betty Marvin
Bertha Wilson
George Williams
Joseph F. O'Connor
Pierre Collosse
Harold L. Muller
Lowell Thomas

Actors:
Charles R. Bowers ..... (as Charley Bowers)
(as Con MacSunday)
Emily Gerdes
Theodore Lorch
Ann Brody
Kewpie Morgan
Ray Turner
Kathryn McGuire ..... The Nurse
Melbourne MacDowell ..... Frisbie Family Patriarch
Buster Brodie ..... The Fuzz-Faced Phantom
Blue Washington ..... The Butler (as Edgar Blue)
J. Gordon Russell
Jean Douglas
Eddie Dunn
Buster Brodie
Ray Turner ..... (as Raymond Turner)
Charles R. Bowers ..... Charley Chucklehead (as Charley Bowers)
Lowell Thomas ..... Himself, Lowell Thomas

Synopsis:

***ATTENTION***Films are silent with English subtitles and French intertitles***Charley Bowers Collection (17 Films) - Contains 11 slapstick and 6 animated films:
Egged On (1926)
He Done His Best (1926)
A Wild Roomer (1927)
Fatal Footsteps (1926)
Many a Slip (1927)
Nothing Doing (1927)
Now You Tell One (1926)
There It Is (1928)
The Extra-Quick Lunch (1918)
Whoozit (1928)
Say Ah-h! (1928)
Believe it or Don't (1935)
Wild Oysters (1941)
A Sleepless Night (1940)
A.W.O.L. (1918)
It's a Bird (1930)
Oil, Can and Does!

Egged On (1926)
Charley invents a machine that turns ordinary, breakable eggs into rubbery, unbreakable ones for transport. He builds a Rube Goldberg contraption of parts stolen from his neighbors. Rival egg companies want his invention, one of them stooping to sabotage to get it. Charley falls in love with the daughter of the president of one of the companies. When the Egg Export Company comes to inspect the machine, Charley has to find eggs for it. He puts a basket of eggs on top of the engine of his Model T Ford. When he opens it, the eggs have hatched into little Model Ts. Eventually, Charley proves the value of his invention to his beloved's father and wins her hand.
He Done His Best (1926)
Charley becomes manager of a restaurant owned by his girlfriend's father, and attempts to update it with a number of unusual devices.
A Wild Roomer (1927)
Charles Bowers is once again an eccentric inventor. This time, he has only a matter of hours to debut his extraordinary new invention in order to collect a huge bequest from his deceased father. Along the way, his evil uncle tries to sabotage the machine, so the inheritance will go to him. The invention basically does everything, including, in one sequence of near unsurpassed beauty, creating a little doll and bringing it to life by sewing a tiny little heart into its chest. The doll comes alive, and the machine dresses and feeds it.
Fatal Footsteps (1926)
Charley is obsessed with learning the Charleston, so he can enter and win a local contest, which promises a large prize and the hand in marriage of a beautiful woman.
Many a Slip (1927)
Charley attempts to invent a non-slippery banana peel.
Nothing Doing (1927)
Charley gets a job on the police force and attempts to round up a gang of crooks.
Now You Tell One (1926)
The Liars Club is holding their contest to see who can tell the most unbelievable story, with a gold medallion waiting to be awarded to the winner. Disappointed with the other members' bland efforts, one member brings in Charley Bowers, who has an extraordinary tale to tell. Charley claims to have invented a magic potion that enables him to grow absolutely anything by a simple grafting process, and he proceeds to tell his story to the club.
There It Is (1928)
When a mysterious figure appears to cause a series of disruptions at the Frisbie Home in New York, word goes out to Scotland Yard that the Fuzz-Faced Phantom is at work. Soon, Charley MacNeesha and his assistant MacGregor are sent across the ocean to investigate. But even as they arrive at the home, a new series of weird events begins.
The Extra-Quick Lunch (1918)
A customer arrives at a restaurant in which Mutt is the waiter, and Jeff is the cook. The customer orders oxtail soup, and then argues with Mutt when it turns out to contain no actual tail. After Mutt then attends, with some difficulty, to two other customers, he takes an order for pancakes from an attractive woman. When the pancakes arrive, she is dissatisfied with them, and so Mutt tries to make amends.
Whoozit (1928)
Say Ah-h! (1928)
Charley has to find an ostrich egg in a hurry for a disgruntled visitor, but he doesn't count on the introduction of some surreal plot twists and turns that foil his every attempt.
Believe it or Don't (1935)
Wild Oysters (1941)
A mouse and his wife must defend themselves from an aggressive oyster in this puppet animation film.
A Sleepless Night (1940)
A mouse and his wife are kept awake by a snoring dog in this puppet animation short.
A.W.O.L. (1918)
The animated story of the adventures of a soldier who is Absent WithOut Leave.
It's a Bird (1930)
A junk man travels to Africa to find a rare metal-eating bird.
Oil, Can and Does!

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