In this short film, Robert L. Ripley introduces narrator Leo Donnelly, who presents various "Believe It or Not" oddities from around the world as gathered by Ripley.
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Is it worth your time? Honestly, only if you have a massive soft spot for early 20th-century curiosities. If you’re looking for a plot, you’re in the wrong place. If you like hearing someone talk really fast about people with two heads or strange local customs from 1930, you'll be fine. I stumbled onto this one while ...
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Alfred J. Goulding
Alfred J. Goulding
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"Is it worth your time? Honestly, only if you have a massive soft spot for early 20th-century curiosities. If you’re looking for a plot, you’re in the wrong place. If you like hearing someone talk really fast about people with two heads or strange local customs from 1930, you'll be fine. I stumbled onto this one while falling down a rabbit hole of old, dusty reels. It’s not exactly The Phantom of the Opera, but it has this weird, frantic energy that I kinda dug. Ripley is barely in it, which is ..."
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