A meek young man must find the courage within when a rogue tramp menaces his hometown.

When a store clerk organizes a contest to climb the outside of a tall building, circumstances force him to make the perilous climb himself.

A young man in New York has exasperated his father because of his constant carousing and irresponsibility, so his father sends him to his uncle's...

Ambitious shoe salesman, Harold, unknowingly meets the boss' daughter and tells her he is a leather tycoon. The rest of the film he spends hiding his...

An irresponsible young millionaire changes his tune when he falls for the daughter of a downtown minister.

An idle, wealthy playboy foolishly joins the Navy when the father of the girl he wants to marry tells him to get a job to prove himself worthy.

After a night of carousing, a rich oil tycoon awakes to find that he was married the night before. He calls in his lawyer to straighten things out.

A young playwright spends his last cent to pay the past-due rent for the pretty dancer who's his boarding house next-door neighbor. Soon after, he...

Lloyd is a serious young middle-class guy on the make who wants to marry the boss’ daughter. The problem is getting in to see the boss so that he...

A young man, unaccustomed to children, must accompany a young girl on a train trip.

Comic adventures of newlyweds and children.

After a wild bachelor party, our hero finds himself aboard a sailing vessel where he encounters numerous adventures. In a dream sequence, he...

A young adventurer trades places with a European prince and falls in love above his station.

A gentle botany student has to toughen up to replace his father as chief of police.

Stage hand Harold falls in love with the leading lady of a visiting theatrical troupe.

A nervy young man follows a pretty lady into a diner to flirt with her, but winds up getting stuck with the tab.

Hal Roach short is a spoof of the 1923 Western COVERED WAGON, which was a huge hit for Paramount. In this film a group of people are heading out West...

Charley is called upon to go out with his boss on a date with the boss' mistress, to act as a beard.

A short comedy by Leo McCarey about a Jewish father who is worried about his daughter.

While running away from his girl's father, Harold's car breaks down in front of a dance hall run by crooks. Harold has to not only stay one step...

Boy trying to impress girl, gets chased by her father and the police right into an ongoing marathon.

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...

A bicycle messenger is sent to make a posh delivery to a wealthy artist's estate-- populated with attractive models.

At Thanksgiving, a tramp arrives in a homeless-hostile town.

The story of the first Thanksgiving is re-imagined as a father tells it to his son.

Deputy Marshal Jerry Steele (Ken Maynard) heads off to Oklahoma where a gang of nasty cattle rustlers is terrorizing the local ranchers. After a bit...

From Death Valley in the Mojave Desert to Mount Whittier, the outlaw gangs are wreaking havoc on the gold and money shipments from the mines and...

A "love-'em-and-leave-'em" sailor hooks up with a dance-hall girl in Paris while waiting for his ship to sail. She falls in love with him, and when...

A pawn shop employee must substitute for a robot in this short silent comedy.

The girls find a pair of steamship tickets, not knowing that the cabin the tickets are for is inhabited by a gorilla.

Harold and his rival fight over Bebe on her birthday, first at her home and then at a nearby skating rink.

Paul Parrott plays an obsessive-compulsive bill poster in this thoroughly average Hal Roach comedy from 1923. Hired to help publicize a new Gloria...

Stan plays a janitor at a hotel dropping letters and trying to retrieve them with a vacuum, getting wet, helping a lady shoot her cheating husband...

A little orphan girl walks into the life of a hand-to-mouth carnival huckster. He teaches her the ropes and raises her as his own.

Snub Pollard comedy directed by Charley Chase and produced by Hal Roach.

An escaped convict is out to kill the judge who sentenced him. Two inept detectives are hired to guard the judge.

Fight manager takes out an insurance policy on his puny pugilist and then proceeds to try to arrange for an accident so that he can collect.

Stan is Phillip McCann, a gas station attendant who arrives at his job by chauffeur and donning a fur coat over his work clothes. After being...

Like many a Snub Pollard comedy, "Years to Come" is a complete flight of fancy. In this one, it is the year 2000, and the roles of women and men have...

Stan Laurel is picked up at the train depot and brought back by the husband to the family home where the wife is having a suffragette meeting. None...

The main premise for the comedy is the Jimmy discovers he can convince people he is a tough figure to be reckoned with merely by giving them a...

Two burglars break into the home of an eccentric doctor. The doctor catches them, but offers to let them go free -- and give them a thousand dollars...

The transition from horses to automobiles at the turn of the century causes problems between a father and son.

In this two-reeler, Jimmy Jump wants to please both of his parents, but they disagree about everything. His father wants him to act more manly,...

A very rich old man promises to leave his extended family his fortune if they all move in together and get along for one year.

Jimmie Jump is returning from Europe to the USA. His parents and an old girl-friend, Sally - whom he hasn't seen for years, are expecting him at the...

Jamison has a very jealous wife. Mrs. Jamison has a very gossipy friend. When the friend spots Jamison on the street talking to an attractive young...

Charley has several dilemmas facing him at Christmas, all posed by his greedy, heartless landlord Noah and his family.

Slapstick film about two married couples.

Captain Dandy (Snub Pollard) is about to sail and arrives on the dock where several women take turns to individually say goodbye to him (the last one...

Snub goes butterfly hunting in Grffith Park and catches Marie Mosquini by accident. They go to a café where all the men have a lot of hair on their...

Snub is an street sweeper with OCD, living in a neighborhood full of fussy people. He is sweeping the street when he anticipates a cop who is about...

James Parrott, little Sammy Brooks, Baker and Jones ("the strong guy" = the drunk) are all workers on a construction-sit run by violent and...

James Parrott having a lot of pets destroying the place.

'Snub' Pollard is an local actor getting a big break in the movie industry, coming home to show off his fame.

Clyde Cook is a traveling handyman who whitewashes farm barns and he flirts with the wife of a jealous farmer. The husband sees this and takes off...

Fifi, a dusky, sultry Senegalese spy, uses her wiles to get information out of two American army soldiers, Ham and Eggs, in France during World War I.

aka Billy, the Ford Buster

Two small town widows bring their children to Hollywood, where their children become competing film stars. The girl is sweet, the boy is a killjoy...

A young barber's girlfriend falls into the clutches of a shady nightclub owner and his cohorts, who plan to get her involved in their nefarious...

As a penniless man worries about how he will manage to eat, he is joined by a young waif and her dog, who are in the same predicament. Meanwhile,...

After numerous failed attempts to commit suicide, our hero (Lloyd) runs into a lawyer who is looking for a stooge to stand in as a groom in order to...

The film begins with a girl who is supposedly irresistible to all men. Several guys all come to her to pledge their undying love--including Harold...

Following the "no good deed goes unpunished" idiom, when after rescuing a group of settlers, hero Don Miguel Arguella is double-crossed by the group...

A tipsy doctor encounters his patient sleepwalking on a building ledge, high above the street.

While his wife is shopping, Snub attempts to take a fifteen minute break.

After a mix-up with his application photograph, an aspiring actor is invited to a screen test and goes off to Hollywood.

Stan Laurel as a harness racing jockey who must win a big race.

A 1924 silent comedy.

Jimmy Jump's young wife goes in strongly for amateur theatricals. After one of her performances a theater manager signs her up. He opens a publicity...

A man starts working in a department store and has to deal with a female kleptomaniac.

A newly-married woman disguises herself as a doughboy in order to stay close to her husband.

A bumbling American soldier saves a girl from a bunch of Cossacks.

This Hal Roach comedy short I found on the "American Slapstick" DVD collection of rare silent comedies starts bizarre and has an anything...

A cowboy and a wild horse find they have some things in common: both have enemies out to get them and both must save their mates from danger.

Thundering Landlords is a 1925 short

Snub and his wife give up their bungalow and allow another couple to move in. Then it develops that they can't find another home, and must live in an...

Don't Rock the Boat

In the Movies is a silent comedy short

Jack Frost is a silent comedy short

A car salesman wants to get marreid but has to make one last sell first.

A man tries to win over the daughter of his boss.

Jimmy Jump is a cracked reporter at a behind-the-times daily newspaper. He also happens to be in love with the managing editor's daughter. It's...

Charley looks for a job position but is not anxious to find one. He ends up getting into all sorts of trouble at a masquerade ball.

Hard Boiled comedy short

Newly Rich is a silent comedy short

Film historian Robert Youngson presents a feature-length anthology of rarely seen silent films by comedy legends Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Along...

This time, Harold's the skinny sap who married the hottie, and he doesn't quite have the spine to tell her ex-beaus to blow. The honeymoon finds him...

The adventures of a penniless young man, who finds himself in a house full of crooks.

A short film starring Harold Lloyd.

A young man's dreams are shaken by his father's insistence that he get a job and go to work. He becomes a waiter in a restaurant, and has some funny...

Chop Suey & Co. is a 1919 American short comedy film

Soft Money is a 1919 American short comedy film. The film is considered to be lost.

Count the Votes is a 1919 American short comedy film. It is considered to be lost.

A morals reformer returns from Hollywood to his small town, and shows his fellow citizens the results of his investigation.

The hero's loved one is threatened with marriage with a rival, due to the machinations of her mother. The simplest solution of the situation is to...

Laurel portrays a commercial traveller, hawking a patent medicine cried Professor I.O. Dine's Knox-All: that name is the funniest joke in this movie,...

Snub, as a member of the London police force, is assigned to a neighborhood where a terrific free-for-all battle is taking place. After the struggle...

An unconventional super detective (Snub) pursues a trio of crooks who've stolen the fortune of his girlfriend's father. Along the way, absurd things...

"Hunky" Dorrey and "Dinky Dubbs are on the run from the cops. They consider getting a job. After one gets his face blackened from a car's exhaust,...