Movies and TvShows featuring "hit-over-the-head" theme.
In Affair in Trinidad, a seductive nightclub entertainer finds herself caught in a love triangle and implicated in a murder. As jealousy and intrigue unfold, she must navigate through a web of deception and betrayal. Set against the backdrop of the Caribbean Sea, this film explores themes of seduction, femme fatale, and secret plans.
After moving into a new apartment, a woman discovers strange occurrences and begins to suspect that her neighbor is a homicidal maniac.
The Floorwalker is a silent comedy short film from 1916. It follows the adventures of a clumsy man who works in a department store and gets into various comedic situations. The film features comedic pratfalls, foiled robberies, and a mix-up with identities. It is a classic example of slapstick comedy.
In this silent film, the little tramp character gets caught up in a series of comedic events. Pretending to be husband and wife, he and his partner are chased by police after being mistaken for robbers. With the help of some clever tricks, the tramp manages to outwit the police and return a favor to a friend in need.
In 'One Body Too Many,' an insurance agent named Albert Tuttle gets caught up in a murder plot when he is assigned to deliver a last will and testament to a millionaire's spooky old house. As he arrives at the house, he discovers a series of strange and suspicious events, including a dead telephone, a trapdoor, and a secret panel. With the help of the quirky inhabitants of the house and a beautiful but suspicious astrologer, Albert must navigate the twists and turns of the plot to uncover the truth and survive the night.
The Eternal is a supernatural horror movie set in Ireland. It follows the story of an orphan girl who is adopted by her uncle and experiences strange occurrences in their mansion. The plot involves druids, mummies, supernatural powers, and soul transmigration. The movie explores themes of family relationships, doppelgangers, and the dark secrets of the past. As the story unfolds, the protagonist discovers the truth about her origins and the curse that has plagued her family for generations.
Below Zero is a comedy movie set in the depression-era. It follows the hilarious misadventures of a comedy duo who find themselves in various comical situations during a snowy winter. From hitting the wrong person with a hat to being run over by a truck, they go through a series of comedic mishaps while trying to make a living as street performers.
When a series of brutal serial murders rock Los Angeles, a newspaper reporter takes it upon himself to investigate the case. As he delves deeper into the mystery, he uncovers shocking revelations and gets entangled in a web of lies, violence, and paranoia.
Guns, Girls and Gangsters tells the story of a gangster who plans to rob an armored car on New Year's Eve. The plot thickens as the gangster deals with betrayal, murder, and the hunt for the stolen money.
Unwitting pickup artist Jack Coley (Jack Hogan) nabs a briefcase holding a costly scientific formula, turning himself into a moving target for owner Alan Sheridan (John Baer), foreign agents and the fuzz -- all bent on a blistering game of finders, keepers. In this stylized crime drama, the quarry coolly eludes the pack while eliciting the aid of an unlikely party: blonde beauty Nan Baker (June Kenney), the attaché's original carrier.
Buster agrees to pose as a murderer to throw off the police while his room mate, a reporter, searches for the real killer.
King Bool returns to Bulvania to claim his throne and his girl.
When a theater offers a free wedding to a couple, confusion reigns.
A Albert Ray directed comedy short starring Al St. John & Aileen Cook where Al tries to fix his inferiority complex by visiting a fortune teller.
This Hal Roach comedy short I found on the "American Slapstick" DVD collection of rare silent comedies starts bizarre and has an anything goes-quality one rarely sees in Mr. Roach's output. It stars Snub Pollard who is initially introduced as a baby left on a doorstep before we see him fully grown about 20 or so years later still in that basket! From there, he gets bumped car to car crossing the street prior to getting literally thrown through a window as an auction is taking place! Also appearing is James Finlayson as a man who's items accidentally get sold.
A harried propman backstage at a theater must put up with malfunctioning wind machines, roosters that spit nitroglycerine, and a gang planning to rob the theater's payroll.
Thelma and Zasu go to a Turkish bath to try to get rid of a cold.
Lucien Littlefield is a dentist who believes in giving generous doses of laughing gas to the patients. On this occasion when a girl arrives at his office with an aching molar, he administers even more than the usual quantity. Under the influence of the laughing gas, she leaves the office and trips blithely along through all kinds of dangerous traffic, makes love to a married man while his wife looks on and succeeds in getting herself into several difficulties. In the meantime the dentist pursues with a restorative.
Left alone by his wife, Fatty joins a poker game across the hall from his apartment and is left to face the law when the game is raided by police. He is given shelter by a neighbor, Mrs. Kennedy, leading to suspicions that they are romantically involved.
Al wants to elope with his girlfriend, but her dog Pete disrupts the plan.