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Edward F. Cline is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Associate Producer and Assistant Director American born on 4 november 1891 at Kenosha (USA)
Edward Francis Cline (November 4, 1891 – May 22, 1961) was a screenwriter, actor, writer and director best known for his work with comedians W.C. Fields and Buster Keaton. He was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin and died in Hollywood.
(1944)
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Birth name Edward Francis Cline
Nationality USA
Birth 4 november 1891 at Kenosha (USA)
Death 22 may 1961 (at 69 years) at Hollywood (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 4 november 1891 at Kenosha (USA)
Death 22 may 1961 (at 69 years) at Hollywood (USA)
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Leathernecking (1930)
, 1h19Directed by Edward F. Cline, Fred Fleck
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Irene Dunne, Ken Murray, Louise Fazenda, Ned Sparks, Lilyan Tashman, Eddie Foy, Jr.
Rating65%
Chick Evans is a Marine private in Honolulu, Hawaii. He falls for society girl Delphine Witherspoon, and begins to scheme as to how to win her over. His first plan involves impersonating an officer in order to get invited to a society party. However, when his Marine buddies decide to crash the party as well, his real rank is revealed, and so having the opposite effect on Delphine as he had planned.
Hook, Line and Sinker (1930)
, 1h12Directed by Edward F. Cline, Fred Fleck
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Robert Woolsey, Bert Wheeler, William B. Davidson, Stanley Fields, Ralf Harolde, Hugh Herbert
Rating59%
Two fast-talking insurance salesmen — Wilbur Boswell and J. Addington Ganzy — help penniless socialite Mary Marsh to turn a dilapidated hotel, which was willed to her, into a thriving success. They soon run into trouble, however, in the form of two sets of rival gangsters who want to break into the hotel safe; also, Mary's mother, Rebecca Marsh, wants her to marry wealthy lawyer John Blackwell, although Mary has fallen in love with Wilbur. And while she takes an instant dislike to Wilbur, Rebecca falls for Ganzy. Adding to the complications is the fact that Blackwell is actually in league with the gangsters. The finale involves nighttime runarounds and a shoot-out in the hotel. During the pitched battle between the rival gangs and the police, Boswell and Ganzy save the jewels, after which Ganzy marries Rebecca, and then gives away Mary at her marriage to Wilbur.
In the Next Room (1930)
, 1h9Directed by Edward F. Cline
Origin USA
Genres Crime
Actors Jack Mulhall, Alice Day, Robert Emmett O'Connor, John St. Polis, Claud Allister, Aggie Herring
The film is preceded by a prologue set in 1889 in which we see an angry husband murdering his wife's lover. The setting of the film then moves to 1929, just as an antiques dealer (John St. Polis) has finished moving into the same house where the 1889 murder had occurred. For years the house had been deserted, it's only occupant being the butler. St. Polis moves in with his daughter (Alice Day) and maid and retains the elderly butler to help take care of the house. One night, the police arrive at the house after receiving a telephone call that a murder has just been committed on the premises. When they arrive, the police are surprised to find that no one in the house knows what they are talking about. It so happens that on that day a valuable antique cabinet has arrived at the house and this has attracted several strangers to come to the house to examine it. A young reporter (Jack Mulhall), who has come to see Alice Day, also arrives at the house. As the police are investigating the mysterious telephone call, however, a series of strange murders occur. As Mulhall is helping Day to open the antique cabinet, they find a hypnotized woman inside. The police are then notified but when everyone returns to the cabinet they find the woman has disappeared. One of the police detectives, Robert Emmett O'Connor, is soon knocked unconscious. St Polis is also hit of the head but stays conscious. The son of the former owner of the cabinet is soon found murdered. As Mulhall attempts to call his newspaper, Day is abducted and taken to the wine cellar. She is rescued by a one-legged man who suddenly disappears and is nowhere to be found. Meanwhile, the hypnotized girl appears in a revived state and reveals that her partner, a diamond smuggler, has been murdered with poison. Eventually, Mulhall, assuming the role of an amateur detective, clears up the entire mystery.
Sweet Mama (1930)
, 1h17Directed by Edward F. Cline
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Alice White, David Manners, Kenneth Thomson, Lee Moran, Robert Elliott, Richard Cramer
Rating72%
When the film begins we find Alice White stranded several hundred miles away from New York with a burlesque troupe. She receives a telegraph that her boyfriend, played by David Manners, is in jail. White boards a train headed for New York without a ticket because she has no money. When the conductor discovers she has no ticket she is almost thrown off the train. A detective, played by Robert Elliott, befriends White and offers to let White borrow the money she needs for a ticket. When she arrives in New York she finds that Manners has been bailed out by a friend and is working for Kenneth Thomson, playing as a gangster who runs a nightclub. White is disappointed to find that her boyfriend is working for criminals. She gets some money from Manners to pay back Elliott for the money he gave her for a train ticket. Elliott notices that she is paying with bills that have been reported stolen. White confesses everything she knows to the detective about her boyfriend and his new employer. Elliott asks White to get a job at the nightclub so that she can get evidence against the gangsters and in return he promises to clear her boyfriend of any wrongdoing. White easily gets a job singing and dancing at the club. Eventually she hears plans about a bank robbery and reports everything to Elliott. When the gangster attempt to rob the bank they realize that the police are watching and waiting and conclude that someone has informed the police ahead of time. Thompson suspects that White has informed the police. In order to save her, Manners implicates himself and the gangsters get ready to stage an accidental suicide for him. They plan to throw Manners out of the window of Thompson's penthouse apartment. White informs the police and arrives in the nick of time to save Manners. Thompson, realizing now that the police have ample evidence against him, attempts to escape and is shot by the police. Manners and White are happily reunited and the film ends.
The Widow from Chicago (1930)
, 1h4Directed by Edward F. Cline
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Actors Alice White, Edward G. Robinson, Neil Hamilton, Frank McHugh, Lee Shumway, Brooks Benedict
Rating63%
Two detectives, played by John Elliot and Harold Goodwin, board a train in pursuit of a gangster, who is played by Neil Hamilton. Hamilton is travelling to New York to work for Edward G. Robinson, a notorious gangster who owns a nightclub. Hamilton jumps off the train near a bridge crossing and since no trace of him can be found the police believe him to be dead. Goodwin assumes Hamilton's identity and joins Robinson's gang but is quickly discovered to be an imposter and shot. Determined to find out who killed her brother, Alice White poses as Hamilton's widow and attempts to get a job at Robinson's nightclub. Hamilton eventually shows up and White is almost exposed as an imposter. Hamilton, however, is eventually persuaded by White and he promises not to tell Robinson the truth. White and Hamilton fall in love. During a hold-up, White protects Hamilton by shooting at a cop in the back. Hamilton begins to think of reforming due to White's influence. White eventually gets Robinson to confess that he shot her brother by pretending to be interested in him. She leaves the phone off the hook while the police listen in on his confession. When the police show up, Robinson realizes what White has done and uses White as a shield against the police but Hamilton manages to save White and Robinson is forced to surrender to the police.
The Forward Pass (1929)
, 1h18Directed by Edward F. Cline
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Sports films, American football films, Musical films
Actors Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Loretta Young, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Marion Byron, Phyllis Crane, Lane Chandler
Rating48%
Marty Reid, le quarterback vedette de l'équipe de l'université, est souvent mis sur la touche et il jure de ne plus jouer au football. Il va y être poussé par l'attitude d'Ed Kirby à son égard...
Directed by Edward F. Cline
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Dorothy Mackaill, Jack Mulhall, Sylvia Ashton, James Finlayson, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Harvey Clark
Rating68%
Let It Rain (1927)
, 1h10Directed by Edward F. Cline
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Crime, Romance
Themes Military humor in film
Actors Douglas MacLean, Shirley Mason, Wade Boteler, Frank Campeau, Lincoln Stedman, James Bradbury Jr
Soft Cushions (1927)
, 1h10Directed by Edward F. Cline
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Adventure
Actors Douglas MacLean, Sue Carol, Richard Carle, Russ Powell, Wade Boteler, Frank Leigh
Rating50%
The Rag Man (1925)
Directed by Edward F. Cline
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about children
Actors Jackie Coogan, Max Davidson, Lydia Yeamans Titus, Robert Edeson, William Conklin, Ethel Wales
Rating69%
Tim Kelly (Jackie Coogan) is a kid who runs away from an orphanage fire and takes refuge with Max, a junk man (Max Davidson).
Old Clothes (1925)
, 1h5Directed by Edward F. Cline
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Jackie Coogan, Joan Crawford, Max Davidson, Lillian Elliott, Allan Forrest, Jim Mason
Rating26%
Tim Kelly (Jackie Coogan) and Max Ginsberg (Max Davidson) have struck it rich by investing in copper stock. But when the stock takes a dive, they are compelled to go back into their former profession — junk dealers. They take in the destitute Mary Riley (Joan Crawford) as a boarder and she hits it off so well with them that she winds up becoming a partner in their rag & junk company. Mary falls in love with a man named Nathan Burke (Allan Forrest), the son of wealthy parents. Nathan's mother (Lillian Elliott), however, disapproves of Mary. Eventually it is revealed that Mrs. Burke came from a poor background herself, and her long-ago sweetheart was Max. After this discovery, she gives the couple her blessings. The copper stock soars in value once again, so Kelly and Ginsberg are back in the money.
Along Came Ruth (1924)
Directed by Edward F. Cline
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Viola Dana, Walter Hiers, Tully Marshall, Raymond McKee, Victor Potel, Gale Henry
Ruth (Viola Dana) is a small-town live-wire who takes over a furniture shop and its owner's nephew.
Captain January (1924)
, 1h4Directed by Edward F. Cline
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about children, Children's films
Actors Baby Peggy, Hobart Bosworth, Irene Rich, Lincoln Stedman, Wilmuth Merkyl, Harry T. Morey
Rating69%
Captain January (Baby Peggy) is a young girl who lives in a lighthouse in Maine with her guardian, Jeremiah "Daddy" Judkins (Hobart Bosworth). Judkins, who is the lighthouse keeper, rescued January from a shipwreck when she was an infant. The only clue to the baby's identity was a locket with a photograph of a woman around her neck, so Judkins adopted her as his own daughter.
Little Robinson Crusoe (1924)
, 1h10Directed by Edward F. Cline
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Films based on Robinson Crusoe, Disaster films, Films about seafaring accidents or incidents
Actors Jackie Coogan, Will Walling, Tom Santschi, Clarence Wilson, Eddie Boland, Noble Johnson
Rating63%
Mickey Hogan (Jackie Coogan) is an orphan cabin boy on a ship commanded by a cruel captain (Tom Santschi). His only friend is a black cat, called Man Friday. A storm shipwrecks Mickey on an island, where is made into a captive war god. The next island is run by a white man Adolphe Schmidt (Bert Sprotte), who lives there with his daughter Gretta (Gloria Grey).
The Love Nest (1923)
, 20minutesDirected by Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about animals, Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Buster Keaton, Joe Roberts, Virginia Fox
Rating67%
In order to escape from his life and his lost love, Keaton sets off on his small boat, Cupid, but runs into the whaling ship, The Love Nest. The whaler's merciless captain (Joe Roberts) throws crew members overboard for even the slightest offense.