Movies by Max Asher
![Crazy Like a Fox](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/nSy7GWFndqIdB4vcXAN4Bw7ghAW.jpg)
Crazy Like a Fox
Two rich capitalists want to marry their children, but they don't like the idea at all. She tries to run away, and meets him at the station. They fall in love, unbeknownst to their real identities, and decide each on their own that they have to wreck their parents plan. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.
![Dog Scents](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/lKN5rzcFfG3S4oN3i9TFWukToJb.jpg)
Dog Scents
A short western/crime film.
In the Year 2014
On this certain afternoon in the year 2014, Mrs. Jones, and her daughter, stock brokers, advertise for a first-class stenographer. Charles Van Doren, a defenceless young man, striving to make a livelihood in the big city, and at the same time retain his good name, calls on Jones' daughter, and is at once accepted as the new stenographer. He has not been there long, however, when Mrs. Jones takes advantage of his innocence, and makes improper advances to him.
![Sweethearts on Parade](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/i2gWmA7xNixEETavlaLwiIoDJt8.jpg)
Sweethearts on Parade
Helen and Nita work in a department store to make ends meet while they search for millionaire husbands. They meet Bill and Hank, who make them reconsider whether they really need millionaires to be happy.
![A String of Diamonds](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/p32766QQTn9UE45kr5zdiw7Xu79.jpg)
A String of Diamonds
A dog helps to recover a million dollars worth of diamonds.
![The Call of the Wilderness](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/3O1aulXmldzfpKt6VbktCBOsP59.jpg)
The Call of the Wilderness
In a small western town, a man meets a girl whose father is a land agent. To please her, he buys a plot of land from her father. Next thing he knows, he's mixed up in a plot to drive him off his land.
![Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in When the Wets Went Dry](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/fbDWCWcGBx4Xo0IW4RtyYmW5fxQ.jpg)
Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in When the Wets Went Dry
This is another comedy, in which trick photography plays a large part. It is a travesty on the temperance question, siding with the dry element. On the refusal of the Governor to sign a bill in favor of the liquor interest, the political boss tries to force the executive to his will. The Governor, after a series of thrilling experiences, thwarts the efforts of the politicians. The latter calls on Lady Baffles, who impersonates the Governor's wife and secures the executive's signature to the bill. Detective Duck, however, captures the politic...
![Vamping Babies](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/axA7BlqItWuzAT4obQ5skhqExEf.jpg)
Vamping Babies
"Lewis Sargent of 'Huckleberry Finn" fame, now grown up, and Alice Ardell are the principal players in this Standard Comdy which deals with the attempts of a love-sick young couple to wed despite an irate father who shows his temper by demolishing straw hats. They finally elope, resulting in a chase scene. Slapstick comedy of average amusement value". - Synopsis via The Moving Picture World. Originally two reels, one survives.
A Yankee Princess
A Yankee Princess is a 1919 American silent comedy-drama film produced and distributed by the Vitagraph Company of America. It was directed by David Smith and stars Bessie Love, who also wrote the screenplay. It is a lost film.
![Poor Jake's Demise](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/kXu8SMBmR9OLyzMPF1rnX5aF4p5.jpg)
Poor Jake's Demise
Jake's wife fears he has made good his suicide threat after he has caught her making love to the Dude in his own home. During the last minute preparations for Jake's funeral, the mourners are suddenly surprised to find him sitting upright in their midst.
Avenging Fangs
A dog and his dead master's brother track down murderers.
![Lights Out](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/fnyXYk9Ak6LSv1ALgpPbKzrnhnm.jpg)
Lights Out
Notorious crooks "Hairpin" Annie and Sea Bass steal a suitcase on the train and discover that it is filled with scenarios. Its owner, Egbert Winslow, agrees to write a screenplay about the underworld with Sea Bass's help. Sea Bass, seeing a chance to expose a pal who has double-crossed him, describes "High-Shine" Joe and some of his underworld activities. Joe sees the film in a South American theater and recognizes himself. He goes to the motion picture studio determined to kill Egbert Winslow, but bank president Peyton, who has been robbed ...
![The Shooting of Dan McGrew](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/nv1vdUa4PEuTNx5ZkwtnFznO8sB.jpg)
The Shooting of Dan McGrew
Although the dance troupe of which she is leading lady is successful in South America, Lou urges her husband, Jim, to seek another environment for the sake of their 2-year-old son. When Dan McGrew offers to put Lou on the New York stage and beats Jim in a fight, she runs away with him to Alaska, where she becomes a decoy in the Malamute saloon. Learning that Lou has been duped by her abductor, Jim follows them to the Klondike and kills McGrew. Husband, wife, and child are then reunited.
Just Plain Folks
Dan Webber, a sailor in the U.S. Navy who has been away from home for many years and presumed dead, returns to his farm to find that his family is about to be evicted. Dan's sweetheart arrives with a baby who, unknown to Dan, is actually the child of his younger brother and the sweetheart's sister.
![Soul of the Slums](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/32562SMEpmSfGAzNXvxInRdpLWx.jpg)
Soul of the Slums
A young man, framed and sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit, is released after serving his stretch and vows to find those responsible for framing him. Meanwhile he sets up a mission in the slums he came from, and falls in love with a girl he meets there.
![We're in the Navy Now](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/jXQcdZprNZJdm5tORQ1puz27GTd.jpg)
We're in the Navy Now
"Stinky" Smith makes off with the prize money when his buddy, "Knockout" Hansen loses a fight with Percival "Sailor" Scruggs. Hansen pursues him him a U.S. Navt recruiting office, and, the next thing they know, both are in the Navy and aboard an overseas transport ship. Madelyn Phillips is on board and Scruggs is the the ship's Master-of-Arms. They overhear a mysterious conversation between Madelyn and the ship's radio officer. Later, Madelun induces the pair to take her off the ship and into a row boat. She disappears and they are picked up...
![Sweetie](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/5xddK3X4UTiyDvwYv70ovLa7Ux4.jpg)
Sweetie
A Baby Peggy two-reeler
![Rip Van Winkle](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/5uFbEJ0Jp2w1nUQTmnZJ2eULPqd.jpg)
Rip Van Winkle
The story shows the development of the united state in divergent fields : Political, social and even economic field.