Old Man in Saloon
Наивная парочка на пути в Калифорнию — хотят купить там ферму. Они случайно заезжают в городок, где проходит игра в покер между местными богачами. Ни и муж не может устоять — вступает в игру и ставит на кон все семейные деньги. Даже не смотря на то что он плохо играет в покер! И надо-же такому случиться, что в самый разгар игры, с ним случается сердечный приступ… Жене приходиться занять его место за столом. Но есть одна маленькая проблема — она не умеет играть в покер!
Mr. Gregory
An elderly motion picture artist drifts through a tenement block, devising a plan to change the lives of its dissatisfied residents with a dusting of Hollywood magic!
Dick Mooney
A government agent ventures west to look into reports that Apaches are behind a recent wave of frontier attacks. Begins to suspect a set-up.
Ben Webber
Инопланетный космический корабль терпит крушение в калифорнийской пустыне. Вскоре на хозяев расположенного неподалёку ранчо начинают нападать словно взбесившиеся домашние животные.
Murdered Man in Elevator (uncredited)
Два детектива расследуют ограбление, в ходе которого было похищено $300,000. Детективы находят преступника и похищенные деньги, однако один из них влюбляется в девушку с очень высокими запросами, и детектив понимает, что его зарплаты никак не хватит, чтобы содержать такую девушку.
Bartender #2 (uncredited)
Peter Potter Jr. returns to claim his father's gold, which is nowhere to be found.
Watchman (uncredited)
Years after the death of her husband, Kitty McNeil takes her son and flees from the home of her wealthy and controlling mother-in-law. Alone and jobless in New York, she runs into an old flame, her USO partner Donald Elwood, who agrees to help her fight for custody of the child.
Albert (uncredited)
Kay Kingsley, a sophisticated and successful songwriter in New York City. falls in love with a widowed rancher, Chris Heyward, she meets at the Madison Square Garden Rodeo and they get married, and leave for his ranch in the west. Her friends warn her of an early disillusionment with life on a ranch, far away from the glitter and bright lights of Broadway. Kay makes one difficulty adjustment after another, as the ranch is presided over by Chris's kids, and an incident occurs with a neighbor that prompts Kay to return to her glamorous life in New York. But she soon finds her heart is with Chris and his children.
Prentice
A crooked boxing promoter tries to shake down Joe's manager by setting up a rigged fight in Humphrey Pennyworth's hometown.
Bush-Cutting Gardener (uncredited)
Biff Jones is a driver/salesman for the Good Humor ice-cream company. He hopes to marry his girl Margie, who works as a secretary for Stuart Nagel, an insurance investigator. Margie won't marry Biff, though, because she is the sole support of her kid brother, Johnny. Biff gets involved with Bonnie, a young woman he tries to rescue from gangsters. But Biff's attempts to help her only get him accused of murder. When the police refuse to believe his story, it's up to Biff and Johnny to prove Biff's innocence and solve the crime.
Old Man
Diamonds are being smuggled across the border from Mexico in a specially made shoe of a palomino mare. One of the smugglers is killed when the mare runs off. The sheriff blames Trigger for the death. To keep his horse from being destroyed, Roy confesses and goes to jail. The smugglers buy Trigger and put him to work smuggling diamonds. The mare, who had earlier heard a trist with Trigger, foals Trigger, Jr. who Roy, finally out of jail, uses to help capture the smugglers.
Gypsy Tea Room Waiter (uncredited)
Prototype dumb blonde Irma and her slacker, wheeler-dealer boyfriend Al interfere in the love life of Irma's level-headed room mate Jane.
Messenger Boy (uncredited)
Saloon-bar singer Freddie gets very angry whenever boyfriend Blackie seems to be playing around. She always packs a six-shooter, so this is bad news for anything that happens to be in the way. As this is usually the local judge's rear-end, Freddie and friend Conchita are soon hiding out teaching school in the middle of nowhere.
Barber (uncredited)
Ник Романо — хулиган, живущий в квартале для бедняков. Его обвиняют в убийстве полицейского, и за это молодому человеку грозит смертная казнь. Единственный, кто соглашается ему помочь, — адвокат Эндрю Мортон, который в юности сам пережил подобную ситуацию. Сможет ли он убедить суд, что Ник не прирожденный убийца, а всего лишь жертва обстоятельств?
Keystone Kop (uncredited)
In 1915, Kansas theatre usher Merton Gill is a rabid silent-movie fan. When he brings Mammoth Studios free publicity by imitating star Lawrence Rupert's heroics, they bring him to Hollywood to generate another headline; he thinks he'll get a movie contract. Disillusioned, he haunts the casting offices, where he meets and is consoled by Phyllis Montague, bit player and stunt-woman. When Merton finally gets his "break," though, it's not quite what he envisioned.
Old-Timer
Jean Loring has her men illegally killing and selling game. Roy suspects her and gets himself invited to stay at her ranch. Investigating he finds the freezer where the slaughtered game are kept. But he is caught, tied up, and left to freeze.
Comic Chef
Молодая жизнерадостная Пирл Уайт ни минуты не может прожить без музыки, пения и танцев. Работая с утра до вечера в швейном ателье, она мечтает о театральных подмостках. Однажды ей выпадает неожиданная удача: клиентка ателье, актриса Джулия Гиббс, приводит её в театр, а затем и на съёмки киносериала "Злоключения Полины". Этот сериал приносит Пирл мировую славу.
The Jailer
In Song of the Wasteland, Jimmy tries to uphold law and order in a tough frontier town.
Street Cleaner (uncredited)
Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she's a successful opera singer in New York. In reality, she works at a burlesque house and is billed as High-C Susie. When her sister Martha comes for a visit, Abigail tries to hide the truth from her.
Cop (uncredited)
A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected. Desperate, one day he crashes a wedding attended by many of the city's rich and powerful, meets a beautiful girl named Kay who turns out to be his ticket to meeting those rich and powerful people, and he soon manages to land a job on a newspaper. He gets caught up in the "make money at all costs" game but receives a rude awakening when the stock market crashes in 1929.
Hotel Valet (uncredited)
Lou Costello plays a country bumpkin vacuum-cleaner salesman, working for the company run by the crooked Bud Abbott. To try to keep him under his thumb, Abbott convinces Costello that he's a crackerjack salesman. This comedy is somewhat like "The Time of Their Lives," in that Abbott and Costello don't have much screen time together and there are very few vaudeville bits woven into the plot.
Amateur Contestant Banjo Player (uncredited)
Два исполнителя музыкальных номеров решают отправиться на Аляску с целью, как вы понимаете, сделать состояние. Во время путешествия на корабле они находят карту указывающую путь к золоту, которую потеряли два головореза, МакГурк и Сперрай. Они, в свою очередь, украли карту у законной наследницы её составителя. Замаскировавшись под головорезов, артисты отправляются на поиски золота, а настоящие бандиты идут по их следу...
(uncredited)
A carnival showman tries to keep Japanese spies from sabotaging the Panama Canal.
Stage Doorman (uncredited)
Monty Brewster is a pennyless, former U.S. Army soldier back from World War II Europe who learns that he has inherited $8 million from a distant relative. But there's a catch: he must spend $1 million of that money in less than two months before his 30th birthday in order to inherit the rest.
Townsman (uncredited)
Музыкальная комедия с участием американской певицы и актрисы Дины Дурбин. Вопреки желанию родителей, ее героиня отправляется на Запад в поисках своего возлюбленного кавалерийского офицера. Замечательная музыка Джерома Керна и прекрасно поставленные костюмные сцены середины девятнадцатого века, делают этот фильм незабываемым зрелищем.
Minor Role (uncredited)
The oddly-assorted Hart cousins: revue singer Blossom, con man Harry, and machinist Chiquita (who gets radio through her teeth!), inherit southern plantation Magnolia Manor, which alas proves to be a "termite trap" and tax liability. Fortunately, Sgt. Rocky Fulton from a nearby army camp appears with a plan to convert the place to a hotel for army wives; but to pay bills until then, they decide to put on a show. Of course, romantic and military complications intervene...
Pete (uncredited)
После вечеринки по случаю проводов отряда военных, взбалмошная девица Труди Кокенлокер из провинциального городка наутро оказывается замужем и беременной и не помнит, кто является её мужем и отцом ребенка. Местный парень Норвелл Джонс, влюблённый в неё много лет, пытается помочь ей выпутаться из этого затруднительного положения. Они заключают фиктивный брак под чужой фамилией, который впоследствии был признан законным. Из-за этого фиктивного брака, Норвелл оказывается обвинен в мошенничестве и посажен в тюрьму. Пока Норвелл отсиживал свой срок, Труди рожает шестерых близнецов и весть об этом событии разлетается по всему миру. Норвелл же, выйдя из тюрьмы, ничего об этом не знает, приезжает увидеться с Труди, где ему сообщают эту радостную весть, от чего он чуть не сходит с ума. В 2000 году фильм вошел в список «100 лучших комедий» по оценкам Американского института кино (AFI).
Western Union Man (uncredited)
Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith delays the return to his hometown, feeling that he is a failure. While in a moment of melancholy, he meets up with a group of Marines who befriend him and encourage him to return home to his mother by fabricating a story that he was wounded in battle with honorable discharge.
Waiter
A nightclub dancer, raised in an orphanage, learns she might be the long-lost heiress to a hair tonic fortune.
Bottle Man
A journalist attacks the campaign of a mayoral candidate who has gained the endorsement of a rival newspaper.
Waiter
Bandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics and pretty girl singers on a tour around the world to entertain the troops during World War II.
The Butcher
The Stooges get a job putting up posters for a circus but discover that instead of money, their pay is tickets to the show. When trying to scalp their tickets gets them in trouble, they hide out backstage where Curly has an encounter with a bearded lady and Moe and Larry hide in a horse suit. When they're caught, the circus manager gives them a choice of going to jail or joining the circus. What they don't know is that they are to be targets for the Zulu spear thrower. When Curly hits the spear thrower with one of his own spears, the boys are on the run once again.
Barfly
A banker struggles to keep his bank solvent and his town from going bankrupt after the bank is robbed and all its money taken. The Three Mesquiteers ride into town and set out to help.
Town Drunk
Wrongfully arrested, Tim must escape and find the men who murdered his partner and stole the gold.
Cook (uncredited)
27 мая 1942 года. Чехословакия оккупирована нацистами. В Праге высокопоставленный нацист Рейнхард Гейдрих, назначенный рейхспротектором, собирает самых известных горожан и выражает неудовольствие актами саботажа на фабрика и заводах. Гейдрих считает, что чешские рабочие не просто саботируют жизненно важное производство на заводах «Шкода», но и призывают к сопротивлению, выпуская антифашистские листовки. Если уровень производства не повысится, будут приняты самые строгие меры, и для устрашения будут проведены показательные расстрелы саботажников на заводской площади. Почти сразу же после собрания Гейдриха убивают. Для чехов смерть Гейдриха становится символом надежды на освобождение от фашистского гнета. Озлобленные гибелью германского наместника нацисты требуют от населения выдать убийц, гестапо начинает брать в заложники сотни невинных граждан, узников расстреливают по одному. Требование фашистов одно: выдать убийц Гейдриха…
Horse Owner (uncredited)
Tom Weston arriving in town just as the Doctor announces his father's death a suicide, sees the gun is in the wrong hand. When the Bank Examiner announces the bank has no money and Tom's identity becomes known, the townsmen attempt to hang him. Escaping he finds the phony examiner and gets a a confession. Then he plans a trap for the murderer. -IMDB
Fireman
El and his new bride go on their honeymoon; no matter where they go, they keep running into her former husbands.
(archive footage)
This short film takes a nostalgic look at the Mack Sennett comedies of the silent cinema era.
Harry's Partner
Harry is a workaholic piano tuner whose bride-to-be's brother threatens to kill him if he doesn't marry his sister. His latest job assignment involves a socialite and a pesky French maid hounding him constantly.
Party Bartender (uncredited)
В 1672 году, когда пуританец Джонатан Вули сжигает на костре двух колдунов, Дженнифер и ее отца Дэниела, они проклинают всю его семью на то, что потомки-мужчины будут всегда себе выбирать не тех жен. В 1942 году Дженнифер и Дэниел возвращаются, чтобы отомстить нынешнему потомку Джонатана Вули — Уолласу, который баллотируется в местные сенаторы и, чтобы укрепить свое положение, собирается жениться на Эстель Мастерсон. Но у колдунов свой план его неудачи — напоить любовным напитком накануне свадьбы. Нечаянно Дженнифер выпивает этот напиток и влюбляется в Уолласа.
Sixth Member Ale and Quail Club
Том и Джерри Джефферс женаты уже несколько лет, но супружеская жизнь не складывается. Низкой зарплаты Тома не хватает на содержание их супружеского гнездышка, и молодым грозит выселение из квартиры. Джерри знакомится со странным богатым человечком по прозвищу «Король сосисок», который в будущем вроде бы должен занять их квартиру.
Новый знакомый дает ей 700 долларов для начала «новой жизни». Том не верит в «просто благотворительность» миллионера, и, подозревая измену, устраивает скандал. Милые ссорятся «навсегда». Джерри, посчитав, что их супружеской жизни пришел конец, отправляется в Палм-Бич, где надеется оформить быстрый развод. Том, взвесив все за и против в сложившейся ситуации, намерен ей помешать…
Old-Timer
A singing entomologist (Roy Rogers) acts meek to help a juggling sheriff (George "Gabby" Hayes) solve ranch raids.
Undetermined Minor Role
Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt Dawson, who exacts protection payment from the citizenry. Dawson frames Craig with poisoned medicine, but Craig redeems himself during a Gold Rush epidemic.
Lynch Mob Member
Fur theives are looting the traps on the ranch where Roy is foreman and they have murdered one of Roy's friends.
Shopkeeper
When Andrew Long, hyper-efficient small town accountant, finds a $1240 discrepancy in the city budget, his superiors try to explain it away. When he insists on pursuing the matter, he's in danger of being blamed himself. In his trouble, the spirit of Andrew Jackson, whom he idolizes, visits him, and in turn, summons much high-powered talent from American history...which only Andrew can see.
Soldier at Hitching Rail
An Arizona frontiersman steals an Indian agent's girlfriend, followed by trouble.
Comedian
While in Hawaii, Velez begins the film as a risque nightclub act and due to her involvement with a group of sailors becomes a beauty queen.
Old Bum (uncredited)
Джон Ллойд Салливан, самый преуспевающий комедиограф Голливуда, собирается впервые снять серьёзный фильм. Он верит, что в мире сегодня столько страданий и горя, что людям не до смеха. В поисках сюжета для свой новой картины «О, где же ты, брат!», Джон решает с одной монетой в кармане и в нищенском «рванье» проехать всю Америку, чтобы в полной мере осознать, что такое бедность и лишения. В первом же кафе он обнаруживает, что лишился даже той единственной монеты, которая была при нем. На помощь приходит невероятно красивая блондинка в вечернем платье, с которой ему предстоит разделить все радости и невзгоды своего удивительного похода за правдой…
Man Crying During Baptism (uncredited)
Уильям Спенс, студент-медик из Канады, собирается вскоре начать работу врачом. Однажды он, проходя мимо церкви, заходит внутрь, слышит проповедь и ощущает призвание стать священником. Хоуп, его невеста, от всего сердца поддерживает любимого, невзирая на негодование её родителей. В Канаде вакансий не находится, поэтому когда Уильям проходит подготовку, он и Хоуп, ставшая его женой, отправляются в маленький городок в Айове, который встречает их бедностью и бытовой неустроенностью. Так начинается долгое, со своими трудностями и радостями, странствие священника и его семьи от одного прихода к другому...
Town Drunk (uncredited)
When Jesse learns that Krager is cheating settlers, he and his gang rob trains to obtain money for them to purchase their land. Krager, finding a Jesse look alike in Burns, hires him to wreck havoc on the ranchers. When Jesse kills Burns he switches clothes and goes after the culprits.
Gasoline Chuck
A former University of Michigan football star (Tom Harmon) rejects an opportunity to play professional football. Instead, he marries his college sweetheart (Anita Louise) and begins a career as a college football coach.
Newsboy (uncredited)
Боксер Джо Пендлтон по пути на следующий бой попадает в авиакатастрофу. Виной тому оказывается ангел-новичок, который поторопился изъять из тела Джо его душу. Прежде, чем ангел успевает исправить свою оплошность, тело Джо кремируют. Тогда повелитель небес мистер Джордан дает душе Джо контроль над телом только убитого своей женой Джулией миллионера Брюса Фарнсворта…
Counterman
The Stooges are photographers for Whack magazine who, after messing up an assignment, are sent to the country of Vulgaria to get a picture of a death ray gun. Features the famous scene where Curly pits his wits against a strong drink, and then a defiant oyster in his stew.
Mayor Gurgle
Li'l Abner becomes convinced that he is going to die within twenty-four hours, so agrees to marry two different girls: Daisy Mae (who has chased him for years) and Wendy Wilecat (who rescued him from an angry mob). It is all settled at the Sadie Hawkins Day race.
Barber's Customer
Первый полностью звуковой фильм Чарльза Чаплина. Он играет сразу две роли: фашистского диктатора Аденоида Хинкеля (недвусмысленно загримированной под Гитлера) и еврея — парикмахера, который как две капли воды похож на него.
The Janitor
Two goofball private detectives are hired to find a millionaire who has been kidnapped by a mad scientist.
Bus Driver (uncredited)
A New Yorker moves West when he inherits an Arizona ranch.
Joe
Chip of the Flying U was Johnny Mack Brown's first western entry for 1940. Brown essays the title role of Chip Bennett, foreman of the Flying U ranch. Before the second reel has tumbled over the spools, Chip finds himself falsely accused of robbery and murder. The actual miscreants are in the employ of a band of foreign gunrunners, who speak in heavily Teutonic accents. Rest assured that Chip makes short work of these bush-league Storm Troopers before the sun sets in the West. Musical interludes are provided by a group calling themselves the Texas Rangers, even though they actually hailed from Kansas City.
Zeb
Charley arrives in a backward mountain town to be the new schoolteacher and receives a hostile welcome.
Reporter (uncredited)
Наивный идеалист Джефферсон Смит, лидер организации Мальчиков Рейнджеров назначен представителем в Сенат. Он объединяется со старшим сенатором от своего штата, однако не подозревает, как много людей вокруг него ведут двойную игру и выполняют приказания тех, кто выше. Наивный молодой сенатор сталкивается с понятиями коррупции, грязной игры, лживости и заангажированности прессы.
Sheriff in Western
В 1913 году работник киностудии Майкл Коннорс увидел в постановке на Бродвее Молли Адэр. Очарованный ее красотой и талантом, он уговаривает ее оставить театр и уехать с ним в Калифорнию, где в то время начинает развиваться киноиндустрия. Став сценаристом и режиссером фильмов с Молли в главной роли, он делает из нее звезду... Сюжет замешан на биографии Макка Сеннетта и Мэйбл Норманд. В фильме снимались в роли самих себя многие звёзды немого кино. В имени главного героя заменили всего две буквы. Изменены названия студий. Скандал с загадочным убийством Уильяма Тейлора заменен на автомобильную катастрофу и по-мелочи. Но много и придуманного. Мэйбл Норманд не была звездой Бродвея и попала в кинематограф без помощи Макка Сеннетта. Макк Сеннетт в фильме встречается со своим «двойником» в молодости. Фантастическая концовка ‒ никакого триумфального прорыва в звуковое кино в реальности не было.
Courtroom Extra (Uncredited)
Jed Marlowe is a brilliant, scheming, unscrupulous criminal lawyer whose specialty is defending criminal he knows is guilty but gets them off through loop-holes or bribery. Then his daughter, misled by her father’s courtroom performance, but unaware of his back-room tactics, marries the killer her father has just unjustly save from the electric chair. What’s a poor father to do?
Pop Mason
Ray Whitley and the other Lazy-Q cowhands break up a plot by Mrs. Pierce (Isabel La Mal) to have her son George (Sid Coke) acquire the ranch by marrying the owner's daughter (Jean Joyce).
Farmer
A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage and an affectionate medicine show elephant.
Mr. Van Asther
Two harried businessmen, owners of a corset company, decide to go to a sanitarium for some rest and relaxation.
Fire Chief Kelly
The stooges are firemen at a station that still uses horses to pull the engines. A salesman who wants to sell the chief some modern equipment plants gun powder in one of the engines. The chiefs daughter catches him and after a chase both are knocked unconscious. When a fire starts, the stooges respond to the alarm, but don't realize its their firehouse that's burning! Somehow they manage to arrive in time to save the girl, and the villain gets his just desserts.
Cabby
Мошенница Пичес О'Дэй, чтобы избежать ареста, выдает себя за известную французскую певицу. В этом образе ей удается разоблачить нечестного шефа полиции и помочь кандидату на пост мэра.
Sheriff Alec Grundy
"Nevada" (Buster Crabbe) and "Weary" Pierce (Syd Saylor)hijack the loot taken in a bank hold-up by Les Setter (Harvey Stephens), and his gang. They escape from Sheriff Jim Henry Warner (Lew Kelly). U. S. government horse-buyer David Ward (Purnell Pratt)is killed by Settler's men and Settler takes his papers and goes to the ranch of Blaine (William Duncan) and asks for the horses Ward was to buy, promising payment from the government later. He also takes an interest in Ina Blaine (June Martel), much to the resentment of her sweetheart Ben Ide (John Patterson). "Nevada" and "Weary" are hired for the horse round-up but Setter has them and Ben arrested on a fake charge. Wil the aid of the camp cook, Millie Moran (Ruth Warren) they escape and start in pursuit of Setter and his gang.
Himself
Actor Lee Tracy presides as ringmaster over a show that combines the best elements of cinema with the circus, what he calls a Cinema Circus. Tracy introduces a number of professional circus acts, plus a cavalcade of movie stars who have side shows under the open air big tent. There is as much action in the audience as Tracy identifies a number of movie stars watching the proceedings incognito, having their own fun in the stands, and sometimes interacting with the circus acts.
Sandy McQueen
Hoppy returns to find Johnny in trouble. Buck Peters has been shot by Porter who made it look like Johnny did it. When Johnny flees he runs into Linda. He takes a liking to her only to learn her father Shanghai is one of Porter's gang. Going after Shanghai, he gets captured by the gang and Porter now plans to kill him. But Hoppy is near by and Johnny will get unexpected help from Shanghai.
Comedian
The star of "Song of the Toreador" receives threatening messages that he will not survive the preview screening of the film. The studio publicist works with the Director, the Producer and the police, to discover who is behind the threats.
Mechanic
«Новые времена» — это эмоциональный, выдержанный в комическом ключе, отклик на перекосы машинной эпохи. Маленький Бродяга не желает быть «винтиком» в огромной мега-машине промышленного производства и так похожею на него человеческого общества. Чарли сражается с тупыми богачами, всесильными полицейскими, бездушными начальниками конвейерного производства. Иногда он выигрывает в этих сражениях, но чаще проигрывает, в конце концов, бесстрашно идет навстречу рассвету. Хотя «Новые времена» считается последним немым фильмом Чарли Чаплина, в нем Маленький Бродяга в первый и в последний раз обрел голос. Правда, он не заговорил, а запел в финальных кадрах картины, символизируя прощание с прекрасным периодом немого кинематографа.
Himself
La Fiesta de Santa Barbara is a 1935 American comedy short film directed by Louis Lewyn. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 9th Academy Awards in 1936 for Best Short Subject (Color). It features a young, pre-stardom 13-year-old Judy Garland singing "La Cucaracha" with her two sisters (billed as "The Garland Sisters"). In the film, Hollywood stars participate in a Mexican-themed revue and festival in Santa Barbara. Andy Devine, the "World's Greatest Matador," engages in a bullfight with a dubious bovine supplied by Buster Keaton, and musical numbers are provided by Joe Morrison and The Garland Sisters. Comedy bits and dance numbers are also featured.
Mayor Carson
The Keystone Hotel hosts a very prestigeous beauty contest. When the cross-eyed judge presents the first prize to an elderly cleaning woman, angry members of the audience respond by hurling custard pies. The Keystone Kops are summoned, and arrive just in time to get plastered with pastry.
Sunday
A New York tramp falls in love with the mayor's amnesiac girlfriend after rescuing her from a suicide attempt.
Emil
The wealthy von Wellingens are shocked when the father of their son Fred's fiancée Lia juggles desserts at a formal dinner. They encourage Fred to break the engagement. Lia goes to Berlin to marry a Baron von Schwarzdorf, and Fred arrives too late to stop the marriage.
Stout Hearts and Willing Hands is a 1931 short comedy film directed by Bryan Foy. It was nominated for an Academy Award in 1932 for Best Short Subject (Comedy), but was disqualified.
Chester and Vernon are a couple of loafers who find a dollar and treat themselves to a meal, unaware that the dollar has fallen out of their money pouch. They must eat and run, and the plot escalates to an all out train chase in the best slapstick fashion.
Chester
Two street cleaners save the life of the police commissioner. In gratitude, he gives them jobs as policemen. Their first assignment? Capture the #1 criminal on the "Ten Most Wanted" list.
Nelson
A woman, raised in the most-strict New England atmosphere, marries a stern, God-fearing sea captain and is thrown suddenly into the romantic, colorful and licentious atmosphere of a South Sea island outpost. With her inhibitions and repressed desires what will be her reaction to the charms of the sensuous of the beautiful tropic nights and the call of love?
Sheriff
To avoid hostilities, Maryan, the ward of Doc May, a medicine show owner, induces Pop Garner, a circus owner, to join forces with her guardian. Doc May and Daphne, his wife, work as clowns; and Garry, a singing soldier of fortune, sings along with Maryan's act. Ruth, Maryan's partner, quits to get married; and Joe, who is jealous of Garry, replaces her with Trixie, his former assistant. When Garry announces his engagement to Maryan, Trixie persuades him to join a strip poker game in a drunken state and "compromises" him in the presence of his fiancée. Grief-stricken, Maryan falls during her act, and Garry, robbed of circus funds, is arrested. In spite of her injuries, Maryan, learning of Trixie's treachery, performs the act with her and forces a confession by threatening to drop her; Garry is released and is welcomed back to the show.
Traffic Cop in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
It's 1929. The studio gave the cinema its voice gave offered the audiences a chance to see their favorite actors and actresses from the silent screen era to see and for the first time can be heard in a gaudy, grandiose music comedy revue. But also appear actors and actresses from the first 'talkies', stars from Broadway and of course the German shepherd Rin-Tin-Tin. Frank Fay is the host of the more than 70 well-known stars who show various acts.
Uncle 'Pa' Hughey
В дебрях Вайоминга появляется новый ковбой и предводитель команды гонщиков скота, которого все зовут Вирджинец, помогающий богатому фермеру присматривать за стадом рогатого скота. В городке он встречается со своим старым приятелем Стивом. В салуне, куда они зашли пропустить стаканчик за встречу, происходит стычка с главарём игроков в покер Трампасом. Поставив на место Трампаса, Вирджинец нажил себе смертельного врага, но его это мало беспокоит. Он увлёкся девушкой, только что приехавшей из Новой Англии молоденькой учительницей, и наперегонки с другом ухаживает за ней. Тем временем Трампас склоняет Стива к нечестному делу, а попросту воровству бычков из стада, которым Стив за хорошую мзду ставит тайно чужое клеймо.
Tim
An outlaw with a Heart of Gold sacrificing his own life for the happiness of two young people in love.
George (Studio Gateman)
Philandering actor Richard Hardell is murdered at a movie studio. His jealous wife Blanche, his director Rupert Borka, and a girl he mistreated, Helen MacDonald, all have substantial reasons for having wanted him dead.
Chester
House of Horror is a 1929 American comedy-horror mystery film directed by Benjamin Christensen. The film stars Louise Fazenda and Chester Conklin and was released in both a silent and sound version which featured a Vitaphone soundtrack with talking sequences, music and sound effects. Both the silent and sound versions of House of Horror are now presumed lost.
Windy
This Zane Grey adaptation stars square-jawed Jack Holt as a lawman going undercover to ferret out a notorious cattle rustler.
Mr. Gruger
Menjou is a gentleman for sale to the daughter of any millionaire who will pay his debts and support him in the style to which he is accustomed.
Angus Mactavish
A crime caper featuring the 'first family of Hollywood' - the Watsons.
Mr. Rackham
Four heirs to a family fortune are summoned to appear at the family estate for the reading of the will, where they meet the estate's staff, which includes a nurse, a crazed doctor, and a sinister handyman.
Samuel Hunter
Wealthy Sam Hunter is approached by scheming Richard Whitehead about investing in oil. There appears to be no oil, and everyone is angry until oil is re-discovered.
John Sloval
John Stoval, a guard in a New York subway, thinks that Philip Hurd, who owns a concession at Coney Island, would make a good husband for his daughter Sophie. Sophie, however, has her sights set on Bill Hedges, the son of a wealthy farmer in upstate New York. Her father arranges for her to marry Hurd in exchange for a 25% interest in the concession, but matters come to a halt when John slips and falls off a subway platform and is injured.
Circus Owner
The ring master is plotting to get the circus owner done away with in a lion cage so he can take over.
Judge
Gold digging blonde Lorelei and her brunette friend Dorothy are searching for rich husbands. This film is believed lost.
Sheriff Ben Holden
Sheriff Ben Holden is in love with hotel owner Madge Malarkey when down-and-out carnival man Gabby Gilfoil shows up hoping to take her for some money. Gilfoil is mistaken for the wanted man Slippery Sawtelle. Neither suitor gets Malarkey but manage to take her husband (wealthy Simeon Trott) for a bundle.
Tennyson Hawks
A European royal couple come to New York to sell some of the royal family's crown jewels. A gang of international jewel thieves is planning to steal the gems, so a private detective is assigned to guard them. Unfortunately the private eye turns out to be a bumbling, inept fool--or so everyone thinks.
Maraval
Bebe Daniels was at the peak of her silent stardom when she appeared in this comedy, which was really more slapstick than farce. Ginette (Daniels) is a waitress at Pierre's café. She is in love with Lucien (Douglas Gilmore) and hates getting attention from anyone else. Whenever another man tries to kiss her, she angrily starts throwing glassware. The restaurant's patrons find this amusing, and Leon Lambert (Henry Kolker) makes a bet that he will be able to kiss her. (Janiss Garza)
Navy Capt. Smithers
"Stinky" Smith makes off with the prize money when his buddy, "Knockout" Hansen loses a fight with Percival "Sailor" Scruggs. Hansen pursues him him a U.S. Navt recruiting office, and, the next thing they know, both are in the Navy and aboard an overseas transport ship. Madelyn Phillips is on board and Scruggs is the the ship's Master-of-Arms. They overhear a mysterious conversation between Madelyn and the ship's radio officer. Later, Madelun induces the pair to take her off the ship and into a row boat. She disappears and they are picked up by a French ship, which sinks a German U-Boat. When the war ends they learn that Madelyn was an operative of the U.S. Secret Service.
Ali
Rafi arrives in the city in search of Pervaneh who was taken by the Sultan. He is joined by Hassan the confectioner. Rafi is captured by the Sultan, but Hassan leads a surprise attack on the palace and the lovers are united.
Moriarity
During World War I, a young woman marries a famous flying ace. After the honeymoon, he is called back into service and leaves for the battlefield. Not long afterwards she discovers evidence that her new husband has been cheating on her.
Mort
Henry Williams, out in Arizona looking for a cure for his imaginary ills, stops at the ranch of Jud Morgan, and decides to stay. Jud's daughter, Sally, attracts his attention, although she is engaged to be married to Sheriff Bob Wells. Henry rides with her to town, where she wants to go shopping for her wedding clothes, but they run out of gas. No, problem' Henry holds up a passing motorist, with a monkey-wrench, and takes gasoline out of his car. They stop at a ranch where the foreman makes them become the cook and dishwasher. Then Jerome Underwood and his daughter, Harriet, arrive and they recognize Henry and Sally as the ones who held them up for gas. The jealous sheriff adds to the complications.
Hotel Manager
An American dancer on a tour of pre-Boleshevik Russia falls for a young army officer, and the feeling is mutual. However, the officer's father is the Grand Duke of Russia, and he has designs on the girl himself--not letting a minor detail like his already being married bother him--and refuses to let his son marry her.
Prince Otto V
Bob Howard, a WWI wounded soldier in a army hospital, meets and falls in love with Princess Elena. When the Armistice is signed, he is quickly shipped back home to America. Returning to Europe, he is mistaken as a Crown Prince traveling to be married to a Princess from another country. The Princess-bride, intended for another man, is his Elena.
Johann Haber
Small-town barber Max Haber is the pride of his father, Johann, who owns an antiquated barbershop. Max adores Kitty Laverne, the manicurist, who loves him but is ambitious to be a dancer, so she heads for New York, hoping that he will follow in pursuit of better things. Mrs. Jackson-Greer, a New York society matron, has occasion to note Max styling the hair of a town girl and induces him to come to New York and pose as a French count. There he meets April, Mrs. King's niece, and loses his heart to her, as well as to Kitty, now a showgirl.
Chester Conklin
Playboy Teddy Ward wants to marry Jeannie King, an artist, but his father wants him to marry Loris Lane, but tells Teddy he can marry whom he pleases if he will make the Mountain Inn a profitable operation. Teddy agrees, and with the support of his friends arranges an ice-boat race with a $10,000 prize to the winner. A problem arises when his father refuses to pay such an amount. Teddy thinks one of his friends will win the race and refuse the prize, but champion racer "Duke" Slade shows up and Teddy knows he will take the money. Some movie stars show up and, while using their own names, are definitely not playing "Self" in this fictional film.
Scottie
During World War I a young man joins the army and winds up befriending another young recruit, not knowing that it's the same pickpocket who stole his watch. After finishing basic training, the two are sent to the front lines in France, where they wind up in trouble with the MPs, getting involved with some cute French girls and "volunteering" for a dangerous front-line mission, and their antics result in their endangering the armistice.
Sam Poore
A European countess, after being betrayed by her lover, goes to live in small town Middle America with her cousins and causes havoc among the rather puritanical community members.
Burke
Joan Wiswell, Ted Workman, and wholesome Helen Ripley are among the half-dozen or more suspects, all for good reasons of their own, murdered a high-society crook called Genne Cassenas.
Wine Waiter
An American millionaire wants to reform a Parisian cabaret singer who moonlights as a jewel thief.
Onery
Paul is a fearless French Foreign Legion officer. Ordered to quell a native uprising at a far-away outpost, he discovers that the revolt is actually a subterfuge hatched by the Arabs, so that the city under Paul's command will be left unguarded and defenseless.
Orderly (uncredited)
Голос тайного ангела пел песни Кристине. Только она не знала, что ее тайный ангел — всего лишь Призрак — гений, который жил в подвале театра и наводил ужас на всех артистов, которые там работали.
Elmer
A young man gets engaged to a business competitor's daughter.
A farm girl learns she is a princess and is swept away by a tornado to the land of Oz.
Popper Sieppe
История супругов, которые выигрывают 5000 долларов в лотерее, после чего в них пробуждается алчность…
Rumrunner
Vengeful husband pursues, kidnaps his wife aboard a deserted ship when he becomes injured and taken aboard, then sinks in a collision following a fight with the captain for his wife. Stars real life husband-wife James Kirkwood, Lila Lee.
Fireman
A Stranger
A young man has a chance to become partners in an auto-repair business, but he doesn't have the money. In order to come up with some quick cash, he decides to temporarily become a professional boxer. The problem is that he isn't an athlete, knows nothing about boxing and stands a very good chance of getting the stuffing beaten out of him.
Tommy
A troubled young woman comes to live with her estranged father on the New York waterfront. A tough sailor falls in love with her, sparking conflict between her father and her suitor. What neither knows is that she has a secret that could cause her to lose both of them.
Himself - Celebrity Actor in Commissary
A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.
Step Lively, Please is a 1922 silent comedy
Officer of Death's Head Hussars
Behind enemy lines, Captain Bob White disguises himself as a woman in order to fool members of the German High Command, including the Kaiser himself.
Little Giant
short subject comedy - fun at the gym!
Albert Walrus - Who Lived by His Wits
The movie starts out with Marie as The Girl in the Case in love with Neal Burns, “Her Sweetheart.” But her dad wants her to marry someone else (Chester Conklin) and takes her away on vacation to get her away from Her Sweetheart. He follows them, disguised as a widow. There is a genuinely funny scene where Marie is disguised as a man to go meet her boyfriend disguised as a widow, and slapstick happens which results in Chester being found in his underpants with the widow in a barn.
Teacher
Comedy and romantic shenanigans set in a one-classroom school.
A Foreign Spy
A 1917 short film directed by Hampton Del Ruth & Fred Hibbard.
A Playful Property Man
An inventor and his assistant build a robot that looks like their janitor, and everyone tries to profit off the invention.
The Rejected Suitor
The Pullman Bride is a 1917 American silent comedy film directed by Clarence G. Badger and starring Gloria Swanson.
The Love Thief was later reissued as The She Tiger
The Fire Chief
Chester Conklin, as the fire chief, clashes with Slim Summerville, police chief.
Mr. A.C. Walrus
Rival spies on a train cross swords over a woman and an airplane shipment in this Keystone comedy.
The Spy's Ally
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.
Walrus
Walrus and his wife run the Walrus Hotel, which acrobats Mr. & Mrs. Ambrose are staying at. Walrus gets a letter from his insurance broker Mr. Cinder demanding a payment. Short on cash, Walrus decides to get his tenants' money now. Ambrose and his wife are in the middle of a domestic squabble when Walrus pays a visit, and his presence only makes things worse. Mr. Cinder visits Walrus himself, and he carelessly throws his cigarette into a trash can. After he leaves, the hotel catches on fire and the rest of the film is a thrilling five-minute race to pay off the insurance!
The Villain
An explosives and black powder expert visits a powder factory in order to inspect it, but when he appears to be more interested in its female workers, an explosive situation results.
The Chief of Police
A swindle in a tiny downtown restaurant leads to a classic Keystone Cops finale. One and all have an easy time with the pretty and flirtatious cashier played by Louise Fazenda, who went on to great success as a character actress and married famed producer Hal B. Wallis in 1927. Released by Keystone Film Company.
Droppington
Pa Droppington sneaks out of the house to go to the theatre. Amid comic capers he is smitten by a dancer. Meanwhile his son is telling Ma that he's in love with a dancer! She is not happy but he takes her to the theatre (for her birthday). She sees hubby and chases him around, he's also chased by another performer. The son calls a clergyman, Pa saves the girl and they marry at the end.
The Suitor
A man falls in love with a piano player and tries to woo her. A passerby hears a maid's music, fancies he's found his true love, and chats her up. Her boyfriend arrives for his music lesson and jealously dismisses the interloper, who swipes a grinder's organ (and monkey) to help him serenade the maid. Later he follows the boyfriend to a residence hotel and plants a bomb in the man's piano. The organ-grinder is gunning for the thief, and soon the piano, bomb, monkey, thief, and pistol-packing grinder are rolling down the road to the delight of maid and lover. It's ka-boom for some and a kiss for others.
Droppington
Droppington's Devilish Deed
The Property Man
Two clownish stagehands make life difficult for the manager and cast of a dramatic production.
Mr. Walrus - Visible Star
A 1915 short film directed by Walter Wright.
Mr. Walrus
Mr. Walrus needs a turkey for Thanksgiving dinner with his in-laws but his plans keep going awry.
Walrus
Bankers Mack Swain & Chester Conklin courting each other's wives.
Mr. Walrus
Охота на чёрного кота, страсть, коварство, погони
Mr. Whoozis, guest at party
Бравый городской парень как-то пошел искать сельские тропы, после того, как городские улицы стали слишком горячими для него. Случайно он знакомится с Тилли, дочкой фермера. Ну и что же, что она больше похожа на слониху, чем на девушку, зато у ее отца водятся денежки, и наш герой не прочь или завладеть. А Тилли, никогда прежде не видевшая такого бравого парня, влюбляется в него по уши и сбегает с ним из отчего дома.
Blackheart Jr.
Two dastardly men conspire to keep their ward from marrying in order to maintain control of her vast fortune.
Ambrose, Mabel's friend
Мэйбл и ее кавалер идут на автогонки, где к ним присоединяются Чарли с другом. Друг Чарли пытается попасть на гоночную трассу через дыру и застревает. Полицейский замечает его. Пока друг Чарли пробирается через дыру, Чарли брызгает в полицейского содовой. На трибуне Мэйбл меняет своего кавалера на Чарли. И друга Чарли и кавалера Мэйбл арестовывают и увозят.
Jacques
Во время забастовки пекарей Чарли и ещё один официант сами становятся пекарями. Забастовщики закладывают динамит в хлеб, который доставляется на кондитерский прилавок. Он влетает в печь и взрывается.
The Love Thief
The Love Thief
The Anglers
Rival
Чарли пытается приударить за девушками (сначала — хозяйкой дома, а потом в парке), однако каждый раз ему мешают его конкуренты. В конце концов ему удается обмануть соперников и увести девушек в кинотеатр, однако месть настигает его. Дело заканчивается всеобщей потасовкой.
The Baggage Smasher
The Baggage Smasher is a 1914 Comedy short.
Film actor
Чаплин в роли решительного молодого актёра, которого то и дело шпыняют из гримёрной за любопытство и длинные руки. Как-то раз герой решает переодеться в женщину, дабы вновь проникнуть в полюбившееся местечко. Внимания мужской части съёмочной группы во главе с самим режиссёром теперь избежать не удастся…
Such a Cook
Drinker
Бродяга рассказывает в баре собутыльникам, что в прошлом он был богатым художником. Однако после того, как от него ушла Маделен, он постепенно опустился на дно жизни. Он пытается нарисовать мелом на полу бара лицо женщины, однако падает замертво.
Man in Audience (uncredited)
Герой фильма — театральный реквизитор, уличает в обмане силача.
Boarder
A lost short film starring Mabel Normand.
Police Sergeant
Мейбл Норман — продавщица хот-догов и единственное, чего она хочет — продать свой товар и чтобы ей никто не мешал. В поисках покупателей она забредает на гонки, где полно богачей. И вот тут появляется человечек с маленькими усиками и в котелке. Он всячески будет портить бедной Мейбл ее «занятой день».
Waiter / Footman (uncredited)
Чарли — обычный официант в кабаре. Однажды хозяин отправляет его выгулять собаку и вернуться вовремя, а то он будет наказан. Чарли защищает девушку Мейбл от хулигана, а та знакомит его со своими родителями. Он представляется Послом Греции, а они приглашают его на свою вечеринку. Естественно, он опаздывает вернуться в кабаре и получает взбучку. Затем он отправляется на вечеринку, где здорово напивается и злит ухажера Мейбл. Вернувшись в кабаре, он продолжает выполнять свои обязанности, в частности избавляет заведение от весьма неприятного посетителя. Как-то раз в кабаре заходит шумная компания, в том числе Мейбл и ее родители.
Pickpocket
Прогуливаясь по парку, наш маленький герой то тут, то там замечает влюблённые парочки, мило сидящие на лавочке, под деревцом или за густыми зарослями буша. Желая встретить свою вторую половинку, которая в полной мере способна разделить его безграничную любовь, герой Чарли начинает приставать к занятым дамам, из-за чего попадает в паутину интриг, злости и неизбежных схваток, как с кавалерами, так и с патрульными полицейскими.
Mabel's Father
Мэйбл поссорилась со своим бойфрендом. Герой Чаплина, проезжая мимо на мопеде, предлагает ей прокатиться. Она соглашается, однако на одном из виражей падает в лужу. Ее подбирает бойфренд на автомобиле, они мирятся. Между тем, герой Чаплина, заметив пропажу, возвращается, однако он уже не к месту. Начинается потасовка. Вскоре Мэйбл отправляется на трек, где ее друг должен участвовать в гонке. Чарли захватывает его и связывает. Тогда в машину садится сама Мэйбл, а злодей во время гонки строит ей разные козни. В итоге Мэйбл, счастливо преодолев все препоны, побеждает в соревновании.
Guest in Police Costume
О том, как герой фильма, пригласив на танец гардеробщицу, вынужден спасаться от ее поклонников.
Policeman
Чаплин и Стерлинг играют двух ухажеров, стремящихся помочь женщине перейти через поток, разлившийся по улице после недавнего ливня. Пока они ищут доски, женщине помогает полицейский. После этого герой Стерлинга пытается отобрать у нее зонт, который он дал ей, а перед этим украл у полисмена. Герой Чаплина вступает с ним в схватку.
The Husband
Роскошный отель, в одном из коридоров которого, находится юная леди, одетая в одну лишь пижаму, поскольку дверь ее номера захлопнулась. В отеле полно развратных мужчин, злобствующих женщин, скоро должен прийти ее ревнивый возлюбленный, а тут еще под ногами крутится этот маленький пьяненький человечек в котелке. Да уж, Мейбл не позавидуешь…
Policeman / Bum (uncredited)
Герой фильма, стремясь получить место репортера, обманным путем добывает сенсационный материал для газеты.
Desk Sergeant
Ford Sterling and Mack Swain are a couple of neighborhood toughs who fight over Emma Clifton and get involved in burglary in this Keystone from 1914.
