Director
Gas Huffin' Bad Gals! is a 2000 film written by and starring Bradford Scobie. It was accepted into the Cannes Film Festival, the New York Underground Film Festival, the Outfest festival in Los Angeles, and was broadcast in England by BBC television.
Director
A drama about black-on-black violence in America's inner cities.
Screenplay
The evil Dr. Wong abducts prominent scientist Dr. Edwin Millstone. Bumbling bank guards Tom and Monte search through Chinatown to find Dr. Wong and rescue the professor.
Adams' Assistant (uncredited)
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.
Story
A former bank clerk who believes he has three months to live goes to the island of Paprika and gets involved in a revolution.
Screenplay
His wife's obsession with playing bridge is starting to drive Leon crazy.
Story
His wife's obsession with playing bridge is starting to drive Leon crazy.
Businessman (uncredited)
Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into another car. Ann escapes and ends up in lawyer Tony Baxter's car. Tony realizes Ann is innocent, so he vows to help her prove it, risking his neck in the process. Tony and Ann are pursued by the police and by Smiley Gordon, a mob boss who engineered Ann's escape thinking that she can lead him to a $250,000 stash.
Story
Wife tries to do something about her husband's fondness for the bottle.
Screenplay
Wife tries to do something about her husband's fondness for the bottle.
Adaptation
A London taxicab driver cashes in on a big sweepstakes ticket and becomes the prey of a confidence-gang that sells him a nag of a cavalry horse on the claim that it is a brother to a current Derby winner.
Writer
A quirky short about Love and Liars.
Writer
Bing and a buddy drive to the college town where Bing's penpal, a billboard model, goes to school. Little does he know he's being pranked by one of her male classmates.
Writer
A 2 reel short directed by Mack Sennett and starring Bing Crosby.
Writer
Homer Bagwell (Harry Gribbon) is an incredibly talented, but reluctant college football player who is dating one of his teachers, Helen Dover (Geneva Mitchell). A jealous rival tries sabotaging Homer.
Writer
A short musical comedic romance starring Bing Crosby as ... Bing Crosby. This 2 reel short was directed by Mack Sennett.
Writer
A series of strange, inexplicable, and increasingly frightening events takes place in Mosby Manor.
Writer
Won by a Neck is a 1930 Comedy short.
Writer
Midnight Daddies is a black-and-white comedy short.
Writer
Marjorie Beebe give advice to the lovelorn service over the air, but she almost fails when she tries to get a man of her own.
Writer
He Trumped Her Ace is a black-and-white comedy short.
Writer
Andy's wife, seeing others succeed in the stock market, decides to invest their money in it.
Story
Wealthy Andy marries a young girl, who has an ulterior motive.
Writer
Scotch is a 1930 comedy short.
Story
An inept window washer becomes an equally inept barber.
Writer
The Smiths open a restaurant, but can’t pay their bills because all of their customers won’t pay their checks.
Writer
Friends Billy Trotter and Homer Brown are both traveling salesmen who meet up at a hotel on their travels. Since they last saw each other, Billy has gotten married. Homer is lamenting still being single and thinks that he will never find a woman who will want to be Mrs. Brown. Billy gets one of his old girlfriends, Peggy, a telephone operator, reluctantly to set Homer up with one of her friends. She chooses Jennie, a homebody of a woman who generally spends her evenings playing checkers with her father. Billy and Peggy accompany Homer and Jennie on their date, acting as their chaperons. Billy is able to maneuver Homer and Jennie into getting married that evening. Back at the hotel, a combination of changed hotel rooms, Jennie's angry father, Billy's jealous wife, and a confused hotel detective leads to misunderstandings and complications for all concerned.
Writer
The Bicycle Flirt is a silent comedy short
Writer
A wife, tired of her husband's non-stop carousing, sues him for divorce. The judge, however, comes up with a novel solution--he makes the husband take his wife's place in the household--including dressing like her--for 30 days to see what it's like to be his wife.
Writer
In and out of the water, Billy makes waves at the Blue Point Beach Club.
Story
A women's track team is preparing for a big meet against a rival college, but the coach is having trouble getting her team ready. Norma, the team's star, is more interested in slipping out to meet her boyfriend than she is with getting ready for the meet, so Norma and the coach engage in a clash of wills.
Story
Love in a Police Station is a comedy short released in 1927
Scenario Writer
Mack Sennett comedy short subject spoofing filmmaking, with girls, lions, and limburger cheese.
Story
Mack Sennett comedy short subject spoofing filmmaking, with girls, lions, and limburger cheese.
Writer
The Bull Fighter is a 1927 short comedy
Writer
For Sale, a Bungalow is a 1927 comedy short
Story
The Smiths' cook, exasperated by giving up her day off in order to cook for an unappreciative guest, decides to leave her employment in order to get married. But when Mr Smith and his family set out to drive her across town to her bridegroom, everything goes wrong.
Story
Gold Digger of Weepah is a silent comedy short
Writer
The Smith's visit San Francisco to attend a horse show only to have their precocious daughter cause some minor comical mishaps and their over-sized canine refusing to obey commands.
Story
Many of its members are spending a leisurely day at the the El Caballero Golf Club, the most beautiful in California. Also visiting for the day is non-member, Billy Divott, a golf enthusiast who is a little too enthusiastic. He seems to cause havoc everywhere he goes, especially as he plays a round of golf and tries to teach who he considers some of the less experienced members the finer points of the game. That havoc is compounded whenever he deals with sand traps, water traps or especially flying insects with stingers.
Writer
Harry, The Odd Fellow, is a tenement worker who lives alone in a shack alongside a warehouse and longs for the companionship of a wife and children like other men. One day he spies a pretty girl in his telescope and sends her by carrier pigeon a note that, alas, is received by the wrong party. The Girl marries and, poverty-striken, leaves her husband during a snowstorm. Harry takes her in, and minutes later her child is born. He works like a slave for the mother and child, pretending they are his own. Meanwhile, the husband finds her and comes to the shack on Christmas Eve as Harry is preparing to play Santa Claus. Not realizing the unhappiness she is causing him, The Girl thanks him profusely and leaves with her husband. Overcome, Harry sits overnight on the doorstep and the next morning is found frozen stiff except for his eyes--with amusing results.
Story
Unlikely Lothario, the less-than-dashing crossed-eyed Ben Turpin, finds himself pursued by many beautiful ladies.
Writer
Donald Drake, a deep sea gondolier ex soda jerk, arrives at the All Nation Cafe in Shanghai. The proprietor believes he's a penniless ne'er-do-well - which he is - but he unexpectedly comes into a small windfall. So the proprietor orders slightly rough around the edges Maud and Mollie, two of his American good time girls working their way around the world, to get him to spend all his money while there. As Donald ends up telling the two good time girls his life story - most specifically about the blonde he let slip through his fingers, she who was the love of his life - a few revelations and the errant coin he left at the roulette wheel betting table change his life.
Writer
Wanda is a gum-chewing waitress; dim Eddie, the pastry boy at the café, likes her. So does Mr. Hamhocks, the café owner, whose head is also turned by the arrival of Pearl Minnow, a gold digger in town for the annual Catalina Channel Swim, sponsored by Wrigley's. Wanda and Pearl take a dislike to each other; Hamhocks is charmed by Pearl and Eddie stays loyal to Wanda. The day of the swimming contest arrives, the two women compete, and the two men try to help their respective gals. Their trials and tribulations mix with documentary footage of the event. An angry swordfish gets in the act.
Story
A poor sap tries to impress his girl by fighting the great boxing champion Jack Dempsey.
Story
Ninth release in 'The Smith Family' series of 2-reel comedies and the family buys a new home.
Story
To make her boyfriend jealous a society girl starts dating a plumber but his sweetheart gets revenge.
Story
Eighth release in 'The Smith Family' series of 2-reel comedies. Bubbles is up to mischief.
Producer
A rich boy gets his well-deserved punishment.
Director
A rich boy gets his well-deserved punishment.
Writer
Kitty from Killarney is a 1926 comedy short.
Story
Should Husbands Marry? is a 1926 comedy
Scenario Writer
The Perils of Petersboro is a 1926 silent comedy
Scenario Writer
The plot has Ben Turpin as the prince of a mythical country who is being forced to wed a princess not of his choosing. In 1947, an outfit headed by J.J.Balaber, called Grand International Pictures, acquired 1,300,000 feet of Mack Sennet films with the intentions of editing 26 short comedies from them. The first of these was a 13 minute short edited from "When a Man's A Prince" and released on June 18,1947 as the first of the "Americana Comedy Film Classic Series."
Story
Meet My Girl is a comedy silent short.
Dr. Brown
A paperhanger and his helper arrive at a sanitarium to do a job. The chubby paperhanger leaves most of the work to his thin assistant, who tries gamely but usually makes a mess. Various patients at the asylum interrupt and complicate the work, and, to the dismay of the lazy boss, a nurse is attracted to the helper. Amidst all the paste, ladders, brushes, and the images of circus and jungle animals on the wallpaper, is there any way this job gets done to the satisfaction of the sanitarium's director?
Ferdie
Jimmie Adams and Sid Smith comedy produced by Jack White and distributed by Educational.
Story
In one of the handful of Sennett/ Paramount Films to survive we visit a traveling medicine show.
The Dude
Roscoe and Buster operate a combination garage and fire station. In the first half they destroy a car left for them to clean. In the second half they go off on a false alarm and return to find their own building on fire.
The one-reel movie I saw appears to be a version of TAMING THE WEST (1919), cut down for the Pathe show-at-home market. Percy (Edward Flanagan) and Ferdie (Neely Edwards) buy themselves a couple of cowboy suits, then head out west. They flirt with the pretty bar maids, knock out the local banditos with golf balls and play some poker. It's slight, low-key and amusing.
John
Pretty Patience Thompson, a "girl with a singing soul," lives with her cold-hearted and avaricious father, Jeff Thompson, on their Indiana farm. Her life of drudgery is brightened by John, the hired hand, but when he asks for her hand in marriage, the old man flies into a rage and discharges him. Soon an aged but wealthy widower courts Patience, and although she still loves John, "Old Jeff" orders her to marry the widower, claiming that a father's will is the law.
The Drunk
A wealthy invalid tries to add his hard-working cook to his will, but the conniving butler gets in the way.
The Town Drunk
Chester Conklin, as the fire chief, clashes with Slim Summerville, police chief.
One-Man Orchestra
The star of a film attends a public showing.
1st Cook
Sam Bernard in the kitchen cooking up something for his loved one.
Chair Warmer
Hitchcock comes to a small town, where the chickens and pigs run about the streets as numerous as the people. His purpose is to amuse and entertain the populace by wonderful feats of magic and sleight-of-hand. His plans are all set awry by his sudden infatuation for Flora Zabelle, who plays the hotel waitress and sweetheart of Fatty Arbuckle.
Minister of War's Daughter's Lover
Swain and Conklin, two international secret service men of questionable reputation, have taken up headquarters in an underground refuge from which they direct their operations. They are engaged in an effort to steal a valuable code book from Prime Minister Cogley.
Owen at 17 (as H. McCoy)
At 10 years old, Owen becomes a ragged orphan when his mother dies. Abusive next-door neighbors the Conways take him in, and by 17, Owen has learned that might is right. At 25, he's a career gangster: loitering, gambling and drinking in dens of iniquity. Marie Deering arrives in Owen's area, eager to empower the impoverished, gang-affiliated youth through education. Owen slowly but surely leaves his old life behind, choosing the narrow path- all the while falling in love with Marie. Skinny, who's taken over Owen's role in the gang, reappears to him, spelling trouble.
The Laundry Truck Driver
After a dastardly villain steals milk from a baby, he tries to put the heroine through a laundry press.
The Husband
A Keystone slapstick comedy Harry McCoy & Mae Busch.
The Suitor
Harry takes girlfriend Mae out for a ride in his Chevy but has to contend with romantic rival Dell, another one of Mae's suitors.
The Married Man
Harry MacCoy's get-up looks a lot like Chaplin's, with his bowler, black cutaway coat and baggy pants, and Mae Busch's outfit certainly suggests Mabel's usual urban outfits -- although hers was fairly standard at the time.
The Lodgekeeper's Daughter's Sweetheart
Keystone comedy mayhem with bears, chases and whatnot.
Audience Spectator (uncredited)
Two clownish stagehands make life difficult for the manager and cast of a dramatic production.
Pianist (uncredited)
Fatty and Al are Minta's suitors. After Fatty sics his dog on him, Al marks Fatty for roughing up by two thugs, but the plan backfires.
Man in Front Row (uncredited)
A happy young couple become engaged, and soon afterwards they are married. But after their marriage, the husband begins to stay out carousing with his friends, leaving his wife at home with her mother. Then, when the three of them go to the opera together, the husband spots one of his friends in another box. Soon the domestic difficulties reach their peak.
Pickpocket
Fatty and his domineering wife visit the park, where they encounter a pair of pickpockets.
Drunk (uncredited)
Left alone by his wife, Fatty joins a poker game across the hall from his apartment and is left to face the law when the game is raided by police. He is given shelter by a neighbor, Mrs. Kennedy, leading to suspicions that they are romantically involved.
Second Prowler
A Keystone comedy with Charley Chase and the gang.
Chaplin Impersonator (uncredited)
Fatty and Mabel go to the San Diego Exposition.
Mabel's Nagging Husband
A henpecked husband's innocent friendship with a married woman leads to chaos.
The Fruit Vendor
A very young Charley Chase is a starving artist. He does not have much luck stealing fruit from a food vendor's cart. He cannot escape from his landlady, who wants the overdue rent. When a pretty girl shows up, Charley and his downstairs neighbor, who is a weightlifter, compete for her affections.
The Rival Suitor
This extremely corny film has him disguising himself in drag to get a job as a governess and access to his overprotected sweetheart. The old father falls for him, needless to say and there is another suitor.
Barfly
Fatty steals a ride on a train, discovered, and put off in the middle of nowhere. He stumbles along over the hot desert and finally passes out. A very plump Indian woman finds him and takes him to her tepee, woos him and finally, in desperation, Fatty agrees to marry her. While the tribe is preparing for the marriage ceremony, Fatty attempts to escape but is caught.
Fatty's Rival
'Fatty' is looking forward to attending a formal occasion. But in order to go, he has to be properly dressed, and he encounters unexpected difficulties in getting himself ready.
Flirt in Park
Charlie and his wife are walking in the park when they encounter Ambrose and his wife where they become attracted to each other's wife and start chasing them around the park. A policeman out looking for a masher also becomes involved.
Pianist / Drunk / Bouncer (uncredited)
A city slicker tries to woo a country girl while her boyfriend fixes his tire.
1st Desperado
Four miscreants get revenge on the police chief by planting bombs in his house.
Singer in First Restaurant / Pianist in First Restaurant / Guest in First Restaurant / Prisoner / Movie Theatre Pianist / Wigged Servant / Guest in Second Restaurant / Society Guest / Guest Imitating Ford Sterling (uncredited)
A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country, after a fight with his girlfriend. When he sees that Tillie's father has a very large bankroll for his workers, he persuades her to elope with him.
Mabel's Boyfriend
Hello, Mabel (also known as On a Busy Wire) is a 1914 American short silent comedy film directed by Mack Sennett.
Harry
Mabel is pursued by her boss, despite being engaged to his son, in this gender-bending comedy of errors and mistaken identities.
Policeman
Charlie takes care of a man in a wheelchair.
Actor
Charlie plays an actor who bungles several scenes and is kicked out. He returns convincingly dressed as a lady and charms the director, but Charlie never makes it into the film.
Drinker
A painter turned tramp (Chaplin), devastated by losing the woman he was courting as a wealthy man, finds himself drunk and getting drunker by the minute with some sailors at a bar until he's literally falling down. He keeps futilely trying to draw the woman's picture on the floor with a piece of chalk until he finally passes out cold (or perhaps dies, as in the poem) at the end of the film.
Drunk in Audience (uncredited)
Charlie is in charge of stage "props" and has trouble with actors' luggage and conflicts over who gets the star's dressing room. Once the dressing-room issue is resolved the next issue is getting everyone on stage with the correct backdrop. Backstage Charlie and an old man fight, often disrupting the on-stage performances. The audience also break into a fight, and a hose brought out behind the scenes ends up squirted over them.
The Police Chief (uncredited)
A man goes in hot pursuit of the shoe store clerk he feels has made inappropriate advances towards his wife.
Man in Bar
Mabel goes home after being humiliated by a masher whom her husband won't fight. The husband goes off to a bar and gets drunk.
Hot Dog Thief (uncredited)
Mabel tries to sell hot dogs at a car race, but isn't doing a very good job at it. She sets down the box of hot dogs and leaves them for a moment. Charlie finds them and gives them away to the hungry spectators at the track as Mabel frantically tries to find her lost box of hot dogs. Mabel finds out that Charlie has stolen them and sends the police after him. Chaos ensues.
Society Piano Player (uncredited)
To show his girl how brave he is, Pug challenges the champion to a fight. Charlie referees, trying to avoid contact with the two monsters.
Mabel's Sweetheart
A silent comedy short directed by Mabel Normand.
Mabel's Boyfriend (uncredited)
Charlie is a clumsy waiter in a cheap cabaret, suffering the strict orders from his boss. He meets a pretty girl in the park and tries to impress her by pretending to be an ambassador. Unfortunately she has a jealous fiancé.
Mabel's Boyfriend
Charlie, competing with his rival's race car, offers Mabel a ride on his motorcycle but drops her in a puddle. He also kidnaps his rival before the race. But Mabel decides to take the wheels in his place, thus causing a threat to Charlie. As the race progresses, despite a very late start, Mabel manages to gain a lead of three laps. Charlie with his henchmen, tries to sabotage the race by using oil and bombs on the track. They seem to succeed for a while, but their dirty tricks were not enough to stop the high-spirited Mabel from winning the race.
Boarder Assisting with Magic Lantern Show (uncredited)
A brat's magic lantern show exposes an indiscreet moment between a landlady and her star boarder.
Bar Patron
A very plastered fella follows a pretty woman home, and proceeds to make a nuisance of himself.
Piano Player (uncredited)
In a dance hall, two members of the orchestra and a tipsy dancer fight over the hat check girl.
Fireman / Audience Member Next to Charlie (uncredited)
The Tramp, a film Johnnie (someone who loiters near theaters or studios to meet stars or get a job), attempts to meet his favorite movie actress at the Keystone Studio, but does not win friends there.
The Lover
The Tramp gets drunk in a hotel lobby and causes some misunderstandings between Mabel and her lover.
Mabel's Sweetheart
Mabel Normand stars in this comedy short in which she has a world of trouble with her rival lovers.
Jake
By deeds of valor both Mike and Jake seek to win the same girl.
A Keystone film, especially from the beginnings, is always worth attention.This film is notable for the profit which it manages to derive from derisory material. It plays more on the resources of comedy than those of burlesque.
