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Comic Strip
see all genres ›Movies love comics like comics love movies: incestuously, extravagantly, increasingly and often less-than-faithfully. What used to be called “the funny pages” has translated well onto celluloid (or video) from earliest days.
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An Orphan on the Streets
Three Hairs was the name of a popular comic character, a street urchin with a bald head save for three thin stalks sticking straight up towards the sky. After a night on the streets, Three Hairs looks for work wherever he can get it; he polishes shoes, picks garbage and even sells newspapers, but finally...Start your free trial to watch
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Corky of Gasoline Alley
How long can a cousin visit? That's the question for Corky (Scotty Beckett) when his wife's cousin (Gordon Jones) makes himself an unwanted houseguest, begins telling Wallet family members how to run their businesses and blows up one of Corky's restaurant ranges AND one of Skeezix's (Jimmy Lydon) cars!...Start your free trial to watch
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The Dream of a Rarebit Fiend
A stunning visual fantasy adapted from the comics of Winsor McCay, which had appeared in the New York Telegram since 1904. Edwin S. Porter not only borrowed McCay's title but his dream-based narrative structure. Likewise, McCay's surreal imagery is convincingly realized on the screen using a variety of...Start your free trial to watch
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Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend: The Pet
Winsor McCay, renowned for such comic strips as "Little Nemo in Slumberland," earlier explored dream imagery with his 1904 strip "Dream of the Rarebit Fiend" in which a character claims his horrible nightmares are caused by eating Welsh rarebit. In 1911, McCay began doing film animation, personally drawing...Start your free trial to watch
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Fearless Harry
In the first of eleven screen comedies based on C.W. Kahles' comic strip, Earl McCarthy is Hairbreadth Harry, forever tasked with rescuing Beautiful Belinda (Charlotte Merriam) from peril. She's introduced as being "so warm-hearted she had to wear asbestos lingerie,” and proves it by kicking up a flapper storm in the middle...Start your free trial to watch
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Fooling Casper
Thelma Hill and Bud Duncan are featured in this 1928 F.B.O. comedy two-reeler. This short and several others were an attempt to bring Jimmy Murphy's popular comic strip Toots and Casper to the silver screen. Cullen Johnson appears as their boy Buttercup.Start your free trial to watch
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Gasoline Alley
The popular Frank O. King comic strip characters go from newspaper page to screen in this 1951 feature film from legendary comedy director Edward Bernds (of Three Stooges and Bowery Boys fame). Scotty Beckett and Jimmy Lydon are Corky and Skeezix, half-brothers who find themselves in the restaurant business until...Start your free trial to watch
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The Kid
Based upon the comic strip "Kiddy Cheung," THE KID stars a ten year old Bruce Lee playing an orphaned child selling comics in from a stall in the slums to survive. When the local gangs move in, it's up to Bruce to keep the streets clean. For fans of martial arts classics, this early film starring the one and only Bruce Lee is...Start your free trial to watch
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Life After Tomorrow
LIFE AFTER TOMORROW reunites more than forty women who played orphans in the Broadway production of ANNIE and reveals the highs and lows of their experiences as child actresses in a cultural phenomenon. Once the curtain came down, many found it could be a hard-knock-life, fraught with out-of-control stage...Start your free trial to watch
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The Rivals
THE RIVALS was based on a comic strip by T.E. Powers that ran in the New York American. The strip (like the film) regularly showed two male rivals continually fighting for the attentions of a desirable woman. In one scene, Charlie escorts Tootsie only to have her stolen away by George. In the next scene, George escorts the...Start your free trial to watch
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Rudolph's Revenge
Prolific comic strip artist C.W. Kahles' most famous creation, Hairbreadth Harry, is top-billed in this two-reeler (which was the last in a short screen spinoff series from the Weiss Brothers' studio). Spoofing archaic stage melodramas, it finds handsome Harry (Earl McCarthy) as always protecting the honor...Start your free trial to watch