5 Movies Directed by Edward F. Cline

One Week

One Week

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1920-09-01

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

25 min

Rated:

TV-G

IMDB Ratings:

8.3 (3942 Reviews)

Genres:

ShortComedy

Fullplot:

Buster and Sybil exit a chapel as newlyweds. Among the gifts is a portable house you easily put together in one week. It doesn't help that Buster's rival for Sybil switches the numbers on the crates containing the house parts.

Cops

Cops

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1922-03-01

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

22 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.8 (3738 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Buster Keaton

Edward F. Cline

Fullplot:

Through a series of mistaken identities Buster winds up with a load of furniture in the middle of parade of policemen. An anarchist's bomb lands in his carriage. After lighting his cigarette with it, he tosses it into the ranks of police. When it explodes the police chase him all over town.

Three Ages

Three Ages

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1923-09-24

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

63 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (2628 Reviews)

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

Clyde Bruckman (story)

Joseph A. Mitchell (story)

Jean C. Havez (story)

Fullplot:

In his first independently produced feature film Buster tells of love and romance through three historical ages: the Stone Age, the Roman Age, and the Modern Age.

The Bank Dick

The Bank Dick

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1940-11-29

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

72 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (5006 Reviews)

Director:

Edward F. Cline

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

W.C. Fields (original screen play)

Fullplot:

Egbert Sousè, "accent grave over the e", henpecked by his whole family, is recruited to replace a drunken film director, then seems to have captured a bank robber and is hired as guard in the Lompoc Bank, where Og Oggilby, his daughter's fiancèe, is teller. Sousè persuades Og to embezzle $500 to buy phony stock; then the bank examiner shows up. Can Sousè keep him occupied for four days? The climax is an extended chase sequence.

Since You Went Away

Since You Went Away

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1944-07-20

Languages:

English, Yiddish

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

177 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

7.7 (3228 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Margaret Buell Wilder (book)

Margaret Buell Wilder (adaptation)

David O. Selznick (screenplay)

Fullplot:

While husband Tim is away during World War II, Anne Hilton copes with problems on the homefront. Taking in a lodger, Colonel Smollett, to help make ends meet and dealing with shortages and rationing are minor inconveniences compared to the love affair daughter Jane and the Colonel's grandson conduct.

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