The Dumb-Bell

The Dumb-Bell

1922 · 9 min · ★ 6.3 · Comedy

The owners of a movie studio are having problems with a temperamental director, and they promise an actor on one of his pictures that he can have the job if he can find a way to make the director leave the picture.

Directed by Charley Chase

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