Grandma's Boy (1922)
Where Laughter Reigns and Joy Pours!
Gênero : Comédia
Runtime : 56M
Director : Fred C. Newmeyer
Sinopse
A meek young man must find the courage within when a rogue tramp menaces his hometown.
A man poses as a lifeguard but his rescue techniques are not the most desirable.
Após causar uma grande quantidade de caos, um garçom (Charles Chaplin) decide pegar seus patins e vai até o rinque de patinação de gelo da cidade. Depois do verdadeiro balé no gelo, o garçom é convidado para uma grande festa na casa de Edna (Edna Purviance) e lá, ele causa mais confusões ainda.
O assistente de uma casa de penhores lida com seu chefe mal-humorado, seu colega irritante e alguns clientes excêntricos enquanto flerta com a filha da casa de penhores, até que um vigarista pérfido e com más intenções chega à casa de penhores.
A cocky, arrogant young playboy is expelled from his American polo team shortly before the big match with England.
Short silent film.
O professor não permitirá que sua filha se case com um não músico, mas Billy, seu pretenso pretendente, não consegue tocar uma única nota. Quando ele está prestes a desistir, o colega de quarto de Billy sugere blefar para ganhar o favor do professor com a ajuda de um disfarce musical adequado e um fonógrafo bem escondido.
Moving Picture World categorized the film as “a nonsense number”, but Normand's Won in a Closet, her second as director, displays her burgeoning talent. Mabel’s father, the country constable, is smitten with the mother of the boy Mabel imagines “her ideal”. The young couple’s romance is disrupted first by two rival “cut-ups” and then by misapprehension that a tramp is hiding in a closet at the mother’s home. In reality, the mother herself takes refuge in the closet to escape the constable’s attentions.
Bob e Walt são irmãos siameses, que fazem bastante sucesso na pequena cidade em que moram. Os dois sempre se deram muito bem, até Walt decide realizar seu grande sonho: ser um ator. Para tanto ele precisa convencer Bob a ir a Hollywood, recebendo a ajuda de uma vizinha e um empresário que quer colocá-lo em um filme pornô.
Jimmy Grimble is a shy Manchester school boy. At school he is constantly being bullied by the other kids, and at home he has to face his mother's new boyfriend. However, through football, and some special boots, he manages to gain the confidence to succeed and leads his school football team towards the final of the local schools cup.
Kri Kri can't have the girl he loves, so he fakes suicide.
A man goes out on New Year's Day and is greeted by everyone with "Happy New Year", in the hope of getting a tip. The fellow is so annoyed that he runs into trouble with the law and almost loses his mind.
Robinet wants to try out to be a jockey, but has to go through a lot of exercise to reach the weight needed.
Veronica Sawyer é uma jovem que convive com três patricinhas chamadas Heather, que têm por função única na vida serem adoradas. O comportamento delas e dos amigos que as cercam é tão pedante que Veronica sente vontade de matá-las. Após começar a namorar Jason Dean, as mortes se tornam realidade, de uma forma a parecer sempre que foram suicídio.
A wealthy bachelor lies his way out of a speeding ticket by telling the cops he's on his way to visit his baby girl in hospital - ever helpful, they accompany him whereupon a little girl attaches herself to him, with hilarious results.
Hear 'Em Rave is a 1918 short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd.
Arthur and Eddie make a bluff at buying a car and get the auto salesman to take their girls for a ride, pretending to the girls that he is a hired chauffeur. The salesman resents being treated as a hired hand and takes them for a bumpy ride terminating far in the country where he runs out of gas. They walk to the house of the county judge who is on the lookout for suspected elopers and has agreed to hold them for identification.