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Total trailers found: 152
24 January 1924
Three hungry pals go to great lengths to feed their appetite.
29 January 1938
Professor Pierre is assigned to find a missing heiress whose fortune will go to a worthless relative if she isn't found.
17 September 1937
Miss Klutz is the worst dancer that has ever enrolled at the school ran by Maestro Boris Cobblier, and he is even considering giving her money back to get rid of her, a consideration not to his financial liking.
01 March 1934
A South American festival brings slapstick love trouble to Bob Hope.
01 December 1933
A pair of private detectives, Peek and Boo, are hired to prove a wife is cheating to secure a divorce for her husband.
10 May 1935
George wants to marry Lena Schmidt but her father disapproves. Tom calls on old man Schmidt to fix things up for his friend George.
01 February 1935
Sylvia Froos is working as a singing song-plugger and is about to get fired because no sales result after she has sung a song.
09 November 1924
Jerry Warner (Barnes) and Edith Somers (Breamer) are in love, but her father Judge Somers (Marshall) will not allow them to marry because he sees Jerry as a poor prospect.
17 February 1928
Jack Duffy had two skills that helped make him the lead in a nice series of short comedies in the 1920s: the usual ability to take one of the bone-breaking falls that slapstick called for and the ability to make himself up as an old coot, which gave him a nice character and made the pratfalls more impressive.
18 November 1923
In order to escape from the police after a small car accident, Bobby dresses as a girl and a sailor in a boat ride.
30 March 1925
On their honeymoon Vivian twice finds Perry in the arms of other women. Though Perry claims he was simply catching one who slipped, Vivian decides to teach him a lesson in fidelity.
27 August 1920
Party-hearty college boys Bobby and Jimmy tone it down for Jimmy's dad when visiting, but when Jimmy's sister declares what she wants is a real cave man, Bobby jumps at the chance.
28 February 1926
Unable to pay his hotel bill Bobby has to become a bellboy to cover the cost. Among the many complications that ensue he finds himself handing from the hotel's ledge from many stories up.
20 September 1925
Jim Wilson is separated from his wife Bella, so when his maiden Aunt Selina -- who thoroughly disapproves of divorce -- comes to visit, Wilson is compelled to locate a temporary wife.
09 October 1926
Henry Williams, out in Arizona looking for a cure for his imaginary ills, stops at the ranch of Jud Morgan, and decides to stay.
16 November 1929
Roommates panic and plan when they hear a radio report of a murderer loose in their neighborhood.
12 February 1915
Eddie leaves on the train for his uncle's place to meet the girl who has been picked out for him to marry, much to his displeasure.
17 January 1926
Johnny tries hard to impress his girl, but she seems to be much more interested in movie stars.
17 January 1936
Orval Whitledge is trying to get a life insurance policy, and the doctor for the insurance company is coming over to examine him; if he is in perfect health, there's the policy.
14 September 1924
A city chap, who as the result of a ducking, is forced to wear "rube" clothes. He meets a cabaret dancer who thinks to have fun by kidding him and keeping up the bluff he goes to the cabaret in this make-up.
07 May 1920
Jack (Earle Rodney) wants to marry Betty (Helen Darling) but inadvertently offends her parents, who demand “anybody in the world but that whippersnapper!” With the help of an “old time actor friend” (Eddie Barry), he makes his prospective in-laws rue their words.
15 February 1935
A musical short about a young couple, an artist for an advertising firm and a hopeful model. They try a couple of schemes to get Sally a job with the firm.
15 October 1937
Professor Pierre Ginsberg is having wife trouble and, on the advice of his lawyer, sets out to wear her down with kindness; she wants constant entertainment his lawyer promises him that a month of dancing and entertainment will eventually kill her or, at least, calm her down some.
20 June 1926
Mabel catches her husband buying lingerie, and he won't explain who it's for. She divorces him, but later learns he was buying her an anniversary gift.
08 August 1913
Almost a Rescue is a 1913 movie starring Donald MacDonald and Roscoe Arbuckle.
06 August 1937
A French language teacher finds a fortune in lost jewellery, manages to trace the owner and returns them.
09 March 1924
Gertie and Jimmie want to get married and go on a honeymoon. They have the license and the tickets, but have to get past her strict father.
12 December 1926
Sad sack gob Billy finds himself challenged to two duels at the same time in the French countryside over two different women.
21 February 1920
A husband is addicted to the habit of going duck-hunting occasionally. Wifey suspects that his object is chasing chickens - those that walk with two feet - and so starts in pursuit.
16 April 1912
The Chief's son, Silver Water, returns from college and is met at the station by the tribe. The Indians make merry to celebrate his homecoming.
30 December 1918
Rather than telling his parents, who have another girl picked out for him, Bob brings home his new wife disguised as his friend "Steve.
08 November 1912
Professor De Risque, anxious to escape for a time the too solicitous attention of Madame De Risque, arrives at Roaring Gulch and, noting that the town numbers some very pretty girls amongst its population, he hangs out his shingle announcing the fact that he teaches the piano and violin.
25 December 1930
A student is pressured into pretending to be a classmate's Aunt so he can act as a false chaperone.
09 June 1928
While there isn't a clear synopsis of this short it it known that it was a slapstick "Christie Comedy," a popular series of shorts from that era known for mechanical gags and situational humor.
20 February 1917
Neal hates to give up his evenings with "the boys." even for his wife Betty. She gets a burglar scare and insists on his staying home.
28 December 1934
Ernest Truex is a lawyer feuding for no clear reason with the lawyer across the hall. Truex gets a woman seeking a divorce; the lawyer across the hall gets the husband.
06 March 1936
The story of a kindly old lady, her involvement with midget race cars and their drivers.
06 November 1917
Father objects to Jack, Mary's new husband, believing him to be merely a flirtatious lifeguard. Mary's brother is in town and Jack believes her brother is something more-- that she may be 'false'.
21 February 1932
Harry Barris and Audrey Ferris want to get married, and her father, Harry Holman, likes Barris' piano playing.
13 January 1924
An auto dealer arrives in a western town, at about the same time as a band of heavily-armed desperadoes.
05 March 1917
Eddie Barry wants to keep wife Betty Compson happy, and she wants him to be a race car driver, so he hires a driver to impersonate himself on the track; but there is an accident and he has to go to the hospital and convince the doctor to have him bandaged.
10 June 1938
Professor Pierre Ginsbairge, an instructor at a success school, tells his class that nothing falls from the sky into their laps.
05 April 1940
Although young and beautiful, schoolteacher Anne Gladden fears a dull future. She finally decides to take a walk on the wild side, splurging on some fashionable new clothes and setting off to find adventure.
23 December 1937
June Allyson is a cashier in a dance hall and her friend Imogene Coca wants to get a job there as a dance hostess.
12 September 1930
Helen and Nita work in a department store to make ends meet while they search for millionaire husbands.
03 March 1928
The ring master is plotting to get the circus owner done away with in a lion cage so he can take over.
14 May 1938
Mrs. Burgess explains menstruation to her teen-aged daughter by showing her diagrams in a medical book.
21 May 1922
A wealthy father tries to discourage his daughter's taste for stories of the Mounted; her imagination conjures up the ideal lover as one who wears that red coat and whose slogan is "get your man.
10 September 1937
Tim (Tim Ryan) has written what he thinks is a great skit about Antony and Cleopatra for the department store's annual employee show, but the boss insists on his goofy daughter (Irene Ryan) playing Cleopatra opposite Tim's Antony.
17 October 1920
Harry Miller is a "natural-born mixer" while his wife Grace is a homebody, distressed by her husband's errant ways.
15 February 1920
Horace Radish wants a drink, but Prohibition is in force. When all his other schemes fail, he heads to the Bootlegger's Haven Hotel with high hopes.
24 May 1924
When her newspaper reporter brother is taken ill, a young woman takes over his job. Before she knows it, she's involved up to her neck in a plot involving stolen jewelry and a very agile monkey.
14 December 1929
Dave Finkel's family and friends take him out to a Speakeasy for a birthday celebration. Many distractions prevent him from enjoying his meal, including a seductive Jean Harlow who tries to pick him up.
19 May 1913
Lee rejoices, for has he not a holiday to-morrow? He meets Eddie, who is employed in a large dry goods emporium.
18 December 1932
Monte is running for mayor of Hollywood against a crooked gang member. When the mob kidnaps Monte, it's up to the Hollywood Actors Club to save him.
06 January 1913
The old folks had planned years ago whom the young folks were to marry. Their wishes were carried out in an extremely unexpected and humorous manner.
16 September 1918
Dorothy loves Bobby's friend, sure enough, but she tantalizingly puts off from date to date the march to "Lohengrin's" popular excerpt.
20 October 1916
That Doggone Baby (1916) is about a small puppy who is supposed to be a baby.