Glen Lambert

Birth : 1896-01-28, Richmond, Virginia, USA

Death : 1973-12-09

Movies

The Timid Young Man
Writer
Milton, a disappointed romantic, has sworn off women. He gives a lift to a female hitchhiker, whom he happily discovers is also a hurt soul and has sworn off men. Their trip together runs into interference from an aggressive driver who later reappears after the two have set up camp. He starts putting the moves on the woman, but when Milton's ex-girlfriend shows up, she gets into a fight with the interloper and gives Milton and his new pal the chance to slip away.
The E-Flat Man
Writer
Elmer attempts to elope with his fiancée, but they escape her parents by driving off in a car that's actually owned by a wanted gangster. When they hear on the radio that the police are looking for them, they dump the car and hide out near a farmhouse. But the farmer's radio also broadcasts the couple's description, so they run away and start hitchhiking, only to be picked up by two policemen. They manage to flee into a railroad yard and hop a train that turns out to be refrigerated. Finally they decide to turn themselves in -- just as they learn that the real crooks have been apprehended.
Hayseed Romance
Story
Elmer answers an ad for a handyman job and starts working for an older woman and her niece. He gets the impression that his employer wants to marry him, even as he finds himself falling in love with her niece. Elmer talks out his dilemma with himself (in a clever use of double-exposure which puts two Keatons onscreen together) and concludes that he must leave both women. But the aunt catches up with him and takes him at gunpoint to the local preacher. There Elmer discovers she wants him to marry her niece, which he does joyously.
One Run Elmer
Screenplay
Elmer owns a gas station out in the California desert. Soon he has a business rival in Jim, who opens up another station, and is also trying to steal Elmer's girlfriend. She plays both rivals against the other and, because she is a baseball fan, both Elmer and Jim try to show each other up in the big local baseball game.
Palooka from Paducah
Writer
A hillbilly family, hard-hit by the end of Prohibition, decide to set the biggest brother up as a professional wrestler.
Pugs and Kisses
Story
A glass-jawed champ is the victim of an elaborate prank hatched by his manager in order to get him off of women and to focus on boxing.
Howd' Ya Like That?
Writer
Two sailors come ashore in New York with enough liquor--which was illegal at the time, due to Prohibition--to have a good time. They wind up getting involved with an actress in vaudeville and her very jealous boyfriend. Not only that, but a Customs Officer who found out they smuggled booze ashore is closing in on them.
Here Comes Flossie!
Story
A clumsy handyman mixes up a mail-order bride and a prize cow, both named "Flossie," with humorous results.
Tomalio
Story
Roscoe runs afoul of a demented Mexican general.
Paul Revere, Jr.
Story
A drunken fool by the name of Paul Revere Wilson (or Williams or something) drinks too much and imagines himself living in 1776.
Close Relations
Story
Roscoe believes he is in line to receive a large inheritance, but the reality is considerably more psychopathic-- no, nuts.
Salt Water Daffy
Story
In this comedic short, two screw-ups join the Navy and make life miserable for their supervisor.
How've You Bean?
Story
Roscoe gets into a lot of wacky troubles, some involving a misplaced box of Mexican Jumping Beans.
Buzzin' Around
Writer
Fatty invents a liquid with flubber-like properties which makes objects resilient and unbreakable. Unfortunately, in his rush to get out of the house to demonstrate his invention, he unknowingly grabs a jar of moonshine instead of the jar which holds his wonder liquid. To make matters worse, as he drives to the demonstration, a football-sized beehive falls from a tree onto the cargo bed of his truck . . .
Hey, Pop!
Story
Roscoe Arbuckle loses his job to protect a young boy from the orphanage.
Tip Tap Toe
Writer
Hal and Mitzi have known each other since they were babies. Tap dancer Hal now works as a window dresser in Blake's Department Store, owned by Mitzi's dad. Mr. Blake hates jazz music and dancing. He refuses to let Mitzi marry Hal, because Hal's ambition is to be a dancer on stage. When Mitzi reveals a secret about Mrs. Blake's past, her father soon changes his tune.