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Leslie Pearce

Directing

Biography

Arnold Leslie Pearce (20 April 1887 – 17 August 1977) was a New Zealand film director,[1] who directed numerous short films in Hollywood during the 1930s, including several with W.C. Fields and Bing Crosby.

Known For

Bulldog Drummond
6.5

Bulldog Drummond is a British WWI veteran who longs for some excitement after he returns to the humdrum existence of civilian life. He gets what he's looking for when a girl requests his help in freeing her uncle from a nursing home. She believes the home is just a front and that her uncle is really being held captive while the culprits try to extort his fortune from him.

Bulldog Drummond

1929
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Dance instructor Arthur Stone's wife, Gertrude Astor, is a jealous woman. Patsy O'Leary's husband, Wade Boteler, is a jealous man. Boteler goes out to play poker every night, so Miss O'Leary phones Stone for a private dance lesson at her apartment. When there's a knock at the door, Stone goes out the window and enters an apartment, where Boteler is playing poker.

Poker Widows

1931
The Dentist
5.9

An unconventional dentist deals with patients in slapstick fashion.

The Dentist

1932
The Fall Guy
6.3

Johnny Quinlan is so desperate for a job that he takes a gig as a "bag man" for the mob. Meanwhile, his beleaguered wife has to deal with her bizarre, unemployed, wise-cracking brother and various neighbors while keeping house in their Brooklyn tenement.

The Fall Guy

1930
Road to Hollywood
5.0

Exploitation film-maker Bud Pollard appears on screen to tell us of Bing Crosby's rise to fame, using scenes from four early Crosby shorts to illustrate his fictional biography.

Road to Hollywood

1947
Billboard Girl
4.6

Bing and a buddy drive to the college town where Bing's penpal, a billboard model, goes to school. Little does he know he's being pranked by one of her male classmates.

Billboard Girl

1932
Don't Play Bridge With Your Wife
N/A

A Mack Sennett-produced sound short about couples playing bridge through the ages.

Don't Play Bridge With Your Wife

1933
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7.0

Mrs. Townes has been refused a new car by her husband for 3 years while he's driving in cabs all over town. But when Jack Townes is exposed in a newsreel pursuing a girl on the beach, Mrs. Townes has now means to negotiate.

The Candid Camera

1932
Roadhouse Queen
3.7

Walter Catlett learns his son Ben Alexander has thrown over fiancee Joyce Compton for acrobat Nora Lane. He takes lawyer Arthur Housman to the road house where she is performing to lay down the law.

Roadhouse Queen

1933
W.C. Fields: 6 Short Films
7.3

A Criterion compilation of "six gems that feature the comic genius at his peak: The Golf Specialist, Pool Sharks (silent), The Pharmacist, The Fatal Glass of Beer, The Barber Shop, and, of course, the notorious The Dentist." Pool Sharks is his first film ever, released in 1915; the rest are all five of Fields’ talking shorts, released from 1930 to 1933.

W.C. Fields: 6 Short Films

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Blue of the Night
6.0

Starring Bing Crosby as himself in a short comedy/romance telling a tale of mistaken identity. Two-reeler; directed by Mack Sennett

Blue of the Night

1931
The Carnation Kid
10.0

It's a case of mistaken identity in this comedy that centers around a country bumpkin mistaken for a Chicago hitman.

The Carnation Kid

1929
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8.0

British comedy film directed by Leslie Pearce.

The Stoker

1935
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7.0

Gertrude Lennox, a dominating woman who controls every aspect of her household, is preparing a reception for famous novelist Philip Lord, who is to arrive shortly from England. Gertrude is also laying plans to marry Doris Bellamy, her ward and the sister of her first husband, to Victor Staunton.

Meet the Wife

1931
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8.0

Low budget infidelity drama with synchronized sound.

Her Husband's Women

1929
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7.0

The doctor prescribes fresh air for a man with a bad cold. His wife is determined to comply with the doctor's orders even if it kills him.

The Sleeping Porch

1929
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9.0

Harry Gribbon is a down-and-outer on the road and stops at a farm for a hand-out. The a farmer's wife makes him chop wood to earn the food and he sees and falls in love with her daughter. The hired-hand is also in love with her so conflicts arise.

Rural Romeos

1934
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10.0

Lloyd, Marjorie and Dorothy work in a department store, he in the toy section and the gals sell music sheets. He's got eyes for Marjorie, but she feels she can do better, and takes up an offer to go with a rich playboy to his estate for a weekend party. Suspicious Lloyd follows, disguised as a butler, wearing his old "Ham" mustache.

False Impressions

1932
The Delightful Rogue
9.0

A modern-day pirate vies with a society playboy for the love of a dancer.

The Delightful Rogue

1929
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10.0

Marjorie Beebe give advice to the lovelorn service over the air, but she almost fails when she tries to get a man of her own.

Radio Kisses

1930