A Clever Dummy
1917•19m•
★5.0(3 ratings)
Comedy
Overview
An inventor and his assistant build a robot that looks like their janitor, and everyone tries to profit off the invention.
Director
Herman C. RaymakerWriters
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An inventor and his assistant build a robot that looks like their janitor, and everyone tries to profit off the invention.
Samuel Tinker - Her Inventive Father
The film was directed by Herman C. Raymaker.
The screenplay was written by Mack Sennett.
This title is listed on IMDb as tt0007802.
1997
A couple of angels, O'Reilly and Jackson, are sent to Earth to make sure that their next supervised love-connection succeeds. They follow Celine, a spoiled rich girl who has just accidentally shot a suitor and, due to a misunderstanding, is kidnapped by janitor Robert. Although Celine quickly frees herself, she stays with Robert for thrills. O'Reilly and Jackson pursue, hoping to unite the prospective lovers.
1997
This is a combination coming out and first love story. The swimmer and diver Lucard is interested in attractive Martin. The film follows the characters' coming out with all its difficulties, the bitter-sweet pleasures of first love and the dreadful moment when one comes down to reality and realizes that one's beloved friend has a hard way to go yet. The positive message the film tries to transmit is the somewhat common motto "Live each day of your life as if it were your last."
1991
Josie, the daughter of the town's wealthiest businessman, faces problems at home and wishes to leave town but is disoriented. Her decision is finalized after she falls asleep in a Target dressing room. She awakens to find herself locked in the store overnight with the janitor, Jim, the town "no hoper" and liar.
1990
Bumbling bank janitor Ernest P. Worrell is assigned to jury duty, and soon finds himself in trouble when he is covertly switched with a look-a-like crime boss. Ernest must escape from jail to expose the mix-up.
1950
This short looks at the following questions: How would you act as an expectant father? How many greeting cards are sold in the USA each year? Why do indoor radiators make that pounding noise? Why do mammals yawn?
2018
The misadventures of Demesio Yito, a plumber unable to be intimate with his wife because of his conservative mother-in-law. He finds himself in a difficult position as a janitor when he witnesses couples and their infidelities.
2015
A down on his luck cubicle worker and his slacker best friend discover their new boss is a vampire who is turning their coworkers into the un-dead.
2000
Maya is a quick-witted young woman who comes over the Mexican border without papers and makes her way to the LA home of her older sister Rosa. Rosa gets Maya a job as a janitor: a non-union janitorial service has the contract, the foul-mouthed supervisor can fire workers on a whim, and the service-workers' union has assigned organizer Sam Shapiro to bring its "justice for janitors" campaign to the building. Sam finds Maya a willing listener, she's also attracted to him. Rosa resists, she has an ailing husband to consider. The workers try for public support; management intimidates workers to divide and conquer. Rosa and Maya as well as workers and management may be set to collide.
1983
A school janitor pretends to be a priest in order to give private lessons to a young top model.
Mixed
3 votes
A Clever Dummy
Released
NR
No Language
United States of America
