Zion Myers

Directing

Zion Myers

Born — Died

1898-06-26 — 1948-02-24

Place of birth

San Francisco, California, USA

Known for

Directing

Credits

39 titles

Known for

Film credits

1930s · 4 titles

Love-Tails of Morocco poster
5.7

This Dogville short takes place at an outpost in the Dogville Foreign Legion. As the story opens, the soldiers watch a newsreel, which includes the opera singer Galli Cur (a spoof of Amelita Galli-Curci) sing an aria. After the show, they go to the local bar and tell each other the stories behind the reason they joined the legion. All the stories are about how women did them wrong in one way or another. They all agree that they are fed up with women, until a certain visitor shows up.

Love-Tails of Morocco

1931

So Quiet on the Canine Front poster
6.7

During anatomy class, students learn that war has broken out. Several enlist and are sent to Camp Poodle, for rookie training. At first the constant shelling bothers them, but within a week they are veterans, unfazed. Barker sort of volunteers to parachute behind enemy lines disguised as a nurse to get the enemy's troop movements. He's captured and sentenced to die, so his mates in the Airdale Army attempt a rescue. Will they succeed?

So Quiet on the Canine Front

1931

Hot Dog poster
3.0

In this Dogville short, a married dog is out on the town with her lover boyfriend, which leads to conflict when the husband shows up.

Hot Dog

1930

The Dogway Melody poster
5.8

An all-dog cast (with human voiceovers) recreates famous scenes from early musical films, particularly The Broadway Melody. The finale is a chorus line of dogs performing "Singing in the Rain" spoofing Cliff Edwards' original version of the song in The Hollywood Revue of 1929. Also spoofed is Al Jolson's performance of "Mammy" in The Jazz Singer.

The Dogway Melody

1930

Behind the camera

Here Come the Waves poster
5.3

Show business twin sisters Rosemary and Susie, one serious and the other a scatterbrain, join the WAVES and both fall in love with crooner Johnny Cabot.

Here Come the Waves

1944

Sidewalks of New York poster
6.2

A dim-witted slumlord tries to reform a gang of urban boys (and impress an attractive young woman) by transforming their rough neighborhood into a more decent place.

Sidewalks of New York

1931

Stop! Look! and Laugh! poster
4.7

Moe, Larry and Curly appear in short subjects linked by ventriloquist Paul Winchell and his dummies.

Stop! Look! and Laugh!

1960

Love Thy Neighbor poster
7.3

Capitalizing on the famous radio 'feud' between comedians Jack Benny and Fred Allen. The two stars play versions of themselves, constantly at each other's throats due to real and imagined slights.

Love Thy Neighbor

1940

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Keep Trying

1926

Jiggers, My Wife poster
8.0

Shemp Howard, in this Columbia All-Star Comedy (production number 7438), knows many ways to get into trouble with his wife, and one he opts for here is stay out late playing poker with the boys and then tell his wife he has been working.

Jiggers, My Wife

1946

I'm a Monkey's Uncle poster
6.1

Set in the stone age, the stooges are cavemen who must have various misadventures hunting, gathering, and otherwise coping with prehistoric life. When some other cavemen threaten to take their women ("Aggie", "Maggie", and "Baggy"), the boys fight them off with a catapulting tree branch that shoots rocks and eggs.

I'm a Monkey's Uncle

1948

So's Your Antenna poster
7.0

Harry plays a gangster on a radio show and is then is mistaken for a real one.

So's Your Antenna

1946

Half-Wits Holiday poster
6.8

A professor bets one of his colleagues that he can turn the Stooges into gentlemen within 60 days. With the aid of his pretty daughter, the professor tries to teach the boys proper etiquette. After many frustrating attempts, he introduces the Stooges into society at a fancy party. At first things go all right, but the party soon degenerates into a wild pie fight.

Half-Wits Holiday

1947

No artwork available
7.0

A rich man's enemies cause him to lose his money, his best friend (his dog), as he goes to jail. Once free he spends all his time hunting for his lost dog.

Lucky Dog

1933

No artwork available
7.0

A rich man's enemies cause him to lose his money, his best friend (his dog), as he goes to jail. Once free he spends all his time hunting for his lost dog.

Lucky Dog

1933

Heavenly Daze poster
7.5

Shemp dies but cannot get into heaven until he reforms Moe and Larry. He returns to earth as an invisible spirit and sets out to prevent the other two stooges from selling a phony invention (a fountain pen that writes under whip cream) to a rich couple. Shemp sabotages Moe and Larry's sales pitch, but it looks he's headed for the fires below anyway.

Heavenly Daze

1948

The Big Dog House poster
6.5

In this MGM Dogville series short, an all-dog cast play out a story of jealousy, murder and justice thwarted.

The Big Dog House

1930

Crabbin' in the Cabin poster
9.0

Wally and Eddie's hunting trip is interrupted by the unexpected arrival of their wives.

Crabbin' in the Cabin

1948

Love-Tails of Morocco poster
5.7

This Dogville short takes place at an outpost in the Dogville Foreign Legion. As the story opens, the soldiers watch a newsreel, which includes the opera singer Galli Cur (a spoof of Amelita Galli-Curci) sing an aria. After the show, they go to the local bar and tell each other the stories behind the reason they joined the legion. All the stories are about how women did them wrong in one way or another. They all agree that they are fed up with women, until a certain visitor shows up.

Love-Tails of Morocco

1931

April Fool poster
7.0

An out-of-work pants presser starts an umbrella business and makes a fortune. His daughter is set to marry the nephew of a rich neighbor until the nephew is accused of stealing money from his uncle--but the money was really stolen by the rich man's son.

April Fool

1926

Skylark poster
6.8

As her fifth wedding anniversary approaches, a woman realizes that she is fed up with always coming in second to her husband's advertising business. Just at the moment when she is trying to decide what to do, she meets a handsome attorney, and their innocent flirtation begins to turn into something a bit more serious.

Skylark

1941

Trader Hound poster
6.0

Trader Hound, a dog who walks upright, wears human clothes, and speaks English, is in darkest Africa with a young sheik who is looking for adventure. With their native guides, they are searching for a lost princess, Nina T-Bone. After sleepless mosquito-filled nights, clothes lost to a mischievous monkey, and a battle royal between a lion and a gorilla, they make their way to Izorgi Village, where the fierce Afri-Curs live and where Nina T-Bone may be a prisoner. Trader Hound and his party are taken captive, and the Afri-Curs prepare a pot to boil them. Can they make their escape?

Trader Hound

1931

Trader Hound poster
6.0

Trader Hound, a dog who walks upright, wears human clothes, and speaks English, is in darkest Africa with a young sheik who is looking for adventure. With their native guides, they are searching for a lost princess, Nina T-Bone. After sleepless mosquito-filled nights, clothes lost to a mischievous monkey, and a battle royal between a lion and a gorilla, they make their way to Izorgi Village, where the fierce Afri-Curs live and where Nina T-Bone may be a prisoner. Trader Hound and his party are taken captive, and the Afri-Curs prepare a pot to boil them. Can they make their escape?

Trader Hound

1931

Trader Hound poster
6.0

Trader Hound, a dog who walks upright, wears human clothes, and speaks English, is in darkest Africa with a young sheik who is looking for adventure. With their native guides, they are searching for a lost princess, Nina T-Bone. After sleepless mosquito-filled nights, clothes lost to a mischievous monkey, and a battle royal between a lion and a gorilla, they make their way to Izorgi Village, where the fierce Afri-Curs live and where Nina T-Bone may be a prisoner. Trader Hound and his party are taken captive, and the Afri-Curs prepare a pot to boil them. Can they make their escape?

Trader Hound

1931

Inflation poster
8.0

An attempt to explain the economic cycle of inflation and unemployment.

Inflation

1933

The Two Barks Brothers poster
6.2

In this Dogville Comedy short, twin brothers are separated at birth when one is stolen by gypsies. One becomes a district attorney, the other a drifter. Thirty years later, circumstances bring them back together.

The Two Barks Brothers

1931

Color Scales poster
7.0

This humorous short film shows various species of tropical fish at the Steinhart Aquarium in San Francisco, California.

Color Scales

1932

So Quiet on the Canine Front poster
6.7

During anatomy class, students learn that war has broken out. Several enlist and are sent to Camp Poodle, for rookie training. At first the constant shelling bothers them, but within a week they are veterans, unfazed. Barker sort of volunteers to parachute behind enemy lines disguised as a nurse to get the enemy's troop movements. He's captured and sentenced to die, so his mates in the Airdale Army attempt a rescue. Will they succeed?

So Quiet on the Canine Front

1931

Hot Dog poster
3.0

In this Dogville short, a married dog is out on the town with her lover boyfriend, which leads to conflict when the husband shows up.

Hot Dog

1930

Hot Dog poster
3.0

In this Dogville short, a married dog is out on the town with her lover boyfriend, which leads to conflict when the husband shows up.

Hot Dog

1930

No artwork available
8.0

A comedy short from Zion Myers starring Jerry Madden.

A Dog's Pal

1927

No artwork available
NR

A collection of Dogville Comedy shorts, showcasing creatively costumed "talking" dogs of various breeds and spoofed thenoble and naughty behaviors of people. The first disc contains Hot Dog, College Hounds, Who Killed Rover?, The Dogway Melody, and So Quiet on the Canine Front.

Dogville Collection 1

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The Dogway Melody poster
5.8

An all-dog cast (with human voiceovers) recreates famous scenes from early musical films, particularly The Broadway Melody. The finale is a chorus line of dogs performing "Singing in the Rain" spoofing Cliff Edwards' original version of the song in The Hollywood Revue of 1929. Also spoofed is Al Jolson's performance of "Mammy" in The Jazz Singer.

The Dogway Melody

1930

The Dogway Melody poster
5.8

An all-dog cast (with human voiceovers) recreates famous scenes from early musical films, particularly The Broadway Melody. The finale is a chorus line of dogs performing "Singing in the Rain" spoofing Cliff Edwards' original version of the song in The Hollywood Revue of 1929. Also spoofed is Al Jolson's performance of "Mammy" in The Jazz Singer.

The Dogway Melody

1930

Who Killed Rover? poster
6.0

In this Dogville mystery, a wealthy resident leaves his fortune to his nephew, who is then kidnapped by jealous relatives. Detective Phido Vance tries to find the nephew before any harm can come to him.

Who Killed Rover?

1930

College Hounds poster
6.5

This Dogville comedy is a spoof of college football movies. A man in debt to a loan shark uses his daughter to stop football hero Red Mange from playing in the big game between Airedale College and Spitz University.

College Hounds

1929

No artwork available
9.0

Don’t expect much in the way of a plot from Kick Me Again. When a married student falls for her portly dance instructor, Puffy is forced to flee in a ballet tutu from the clutches of her jealous husband. The usual slapstick complications ensue before the cross-dressing funnyman finally locates a new suit of clothes. The viewing pleasure comes not from the run-of-the-mill gags and storyline but from seeing a master wring every ounce of comedy from his ungainly outfit. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partnership with Universal Pictures, in 2013.

Kick Me Again

1925

No artwork available
NR

A collection of Dogville Comedy shorts, showcasing creatively costumed "talking" dogs of various breeds and spoofed thenoble and naughty behaviors of people. The second disc contains The Big Dog House, Love Tails of Morocco, Two Barks Brothers, and Trader Hound.

Dogville Collection 2

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