When a store clerk organizes a contest to climb the outside of a tall building, circumstances force him to make the perilous climb himself.
Casts Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Bill Strother, Noah Young, Westcott Clarke, Roy Brooks, Mickey Daniels, Richard Daniels, Ray Erlenborn, William Gillespie
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Housing Shortage
Time Traveling Through Time
Nashville
Bambi Meets Godzilla
Barry Lyndon
Underground
Prinz Sami
My Wife, the Movie Star
Badlands
Last Year at Marienbad
The Thin Man
Madigan's Millions
Hot Fuzz
The Gendarme in New York
Cul-de-sac
Charade
Paul and Michelle
Odette Toulemonde
Spellbound
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Housing Shortage
IMDB 0 | Feb , 1920
The plot of the lost film is divided into two acts. Ossi Oswalda and Victor Janson play two apartment seekers, while Marga Köhler is a landlady. The housing shortage is treated in sketch form and "in a joking manner [...] the real housing calamity", whereby "humorous aspects" are wrested from the "tragedy." Lubitsch and Kräly used a sketch in the film that they had written especially for Ossi Oswalda.Time Traveling Through Time
IMDB 7.5 | Nov , 2022
A wannabe film director becomes embroiled in a battle against the laws of time and space when his attempts to recreate the iconic black and white, photograph-only, time travel film, La Jetée, spiral out of control.Nashville
IMDB 7.2 | Jun , 1975
The intersecting stories of twenty-four characters—from country star to wannabe to reporter to waitress—connect to the music business in Nashville, Tennessee.Bambi Meets Godzilla
IMDB 6.4 | Jul , 1969
A deer, disillusioned by the consumerism that defines his life. A lizard, ostracized from society, forever wandering. A chance meeting in the middle of a field. Who will survive? And who will transcend existence? Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2009.Barry Lyndon
IMDB 8 | Dec , 1975
An Irish rogue uses his cunning and wit to work his way up the social classes of 18th century England, transforming himself from the humble Redmond Barry into the noble Barry Lyndon.Underground
IMDB 6.9 | Jul , 1928
A working-class love story set in and around the London Underground of the 1920s. Two men – gentle Bill and brash Bert – meet and are attracted to the same woman on the same day at the same Underground station. But the lady chooses Bill, and Bert isn't the type to take rejection lightly...Prinz Sami
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1918
Prince Sami comes from Nigeria and is an uncivilized "nature boy." He is sent to the highly civilized court of Duchess Maria of Arragon, where he initially causes chaos. In the end, however, he becomes the duchess's husband.My Wife, the Movie Star
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1919
While making a movie in the Alps, the female star falls in love with a nobleman.Badlands
IMDB 7.5 | Jan , 1974
An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town and her older greaser boyfriend embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota badlands.Last Year at Marienbad
IMDB 7.4 | May , 1961
In a strange and isolated chateau, a man becomes acquainted with a woman and insists that they have met before.The Thin Man
IMDB 7.5 | May , 1934
A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.Madigan's Millions
IMDB 3.7 | May , 1968
When a deported gangster dies in Italy, the U.S. Treasury Department is very interested in the one million dollars Madigan owed the government, but managed to take to Italy with him. They send Agent Jason Phister over to Italy to nose out the million. His criteria for the job is that no one would ever guess he's an agent of the United States government.Hot Fuzz
IMDB 7.6 | Feb , 2007
Former London constable Nicholas Angel finds it difficult to adapt to his new assignment in the sleepy British village of Sandford. Not only does he miss the excitement of the big city, but he also has a well-meaning oaf for a partner. However, when a series of grisly accidents rocks Sandford, Angel smells something rotten in the idyllic village.The Gendarme in New York
IMDB 6.3 | Oct , 1965
Sergeant Cruchot and his faithful comrades have been sent to the International Congress of Gendarmerie in N.Y.Cul-de-sac
IMDB 6.7 | Jun , 1966
On the run and in search of help, two wounded gangsters find refuge in the secluded castle of a feeble man and his wife; however, under the point of a gun, nothing is what it seems.Charade
IMDB 7.7 | Dec , 1963
After Regina Lampert falls for the dashing Peter Joshua on a skiing holiday in the French Alps, she discovers upon her return to Paris that her husband has been murdered. Soon, she and Peter are giving chase to three of her late husband's World War II cronies, Tex, Scobie and Gideon, who are after a quarter of a million dollars the quartet stole while behind enemy lines.Paul and Michelle
IMDB 4.8 | Mar , 1974
Taking place approximately three years after the events in Friends, Paul and Michelle follows the family of Paul Harrison and Michelle Latour-Harrison after they have been reunited. Paul has to cope with the difficulties he faces balancing work, college, and trying to maintain their family as well as a new love interest for Michelle.Odette Toulemonde
IMDB 5.7 | Feb , 2007
Objectively, Odette Toulemonde has nothing to be happy about, but is. Balthazar Balsan has everything to be happy about, but isn’t. Odette, awkwardly forty, with a delightful hairdresser son and a daughter bogged down in adolescence, spends her days behind the cosmetic’s counter in a department store and her nights sewing feathers on costumes for Parisian variety shows. She dreams of thanking Balthazar Balsan, her favorite author, to whom – she believes – she owes her optimism. The rich and charming Parisian writer then turns up in her life in an unexpected way.Spellbound
IMDB 7.4 | Nov , 1945
When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, discovers Edwardes is actually an impostor. The man confesses that the real Dr. Edwardes is dead and fears he may have killed him, but cannot recall anything. Dr. Peterson, however is convinced his impostor is innocent of the man's murder, and joins him on a quest to unravel his amnesia through psychoanalysis.Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
IMDB 7.4 | Mar , 1988
After being dumped by her lover, Pepa finds her life and the lives of those around her spiraling out of control in a deliciously chaotic series of events.