Ruth Hiatt

The Smiths open a restaurant, but can’t pay their bills because all of their customers won’t pay their checks.

Percy Nudge (Australian-born Billy Bevan) and Dusty Duncan (Scotsman Andy Clyde) are two hoboes playing “hooky from the hoosegow” (that's "jail"...

Ruth Hiatt is the object of Raymond McKee's affections, but her mother, Sunshine Hart, and a bogus Baron, Kewpie Morgan, are providing him reasons to...

Lloyd has spent his entire life savings on a new flivver.

A police chief and two security agencies work to find out who is behind a recent rash of hijackings.

Restored by the George Eastman House in 2001, this 1928 serial was considered a “last hurrah” for the silent-era serial, and brought together...

A Mermaid Comedy

Shanghai Rose is the proprietress of a gin mill which doubles as a bordello. A murder occurs, and she is put on trial for her life. A series of...

An unscrupulous lawyer uses alcohol to swindle an innocent family.

Arthur Wells, an impoverished poet, impersonates a big-game hunter in an attempt to locate the missing link. However, the poet has an aversion to...

An auto salesman fall in love with a rich girl but she is already engaged.

Short silent comedy starring Chaplin imitator Bobby Dunn.

Won by a Neck is a 1930 Comedy short.

Radio announcer Lloyd Hamilton tries on straw boaters while various performers do things on the mythical station STAR. They include Dorothy Burgess,...

Lige Conley stars in "Fast and Furious" (1924), a fast-paced silent comedy. Conley's sidekick in this film, as with several in this series of...

Cabbie gets mixed up with gangster's wife.

The gang wants Spanky to come out and play football, but he has to make sure his baby sister is asleep first.

Lloyd stows away on a ship to be near his girlfriend.

An employee is harassed by his co-workers. Later, they ambush him and try to steal the company's money.

19th release in 'The Smith Family' series of 2-reel comedies.

The Duff family can't seem to get along with their neighbors, an obsessed policeman and his wife.

Jim and Buddy decide to follow their pal Tater-bug who left them for another job. No sooner do they arrive than Tater-bug gets shot in the back. Jim...

Harry and his friend have planned to go out for an afternoon of fun. But first, Harry must figure out how to slip away from his domineering wife with...

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...

Here it's Andy Clyde in a long beard as Raymond McKee's rich uncle Dan. He quickly becomes entangled with Carmelita Geraghty, the vamp next door, and...

The film begins with a family at home having a meal. The biggest laugh involved some candles being substituted for asparagus and the hilarity that...

Would-be photographer Harry gets his big chance when a newspaper wants pictures of a prominent gangster and his girl. Harry and another photographer...

Harry Langdon and Charley Rogers star in this 1941 Monogram comedy, about two bumbling brothers who take jobs at a New York food cannery and...

Fire chief Amos McCarthy, a confirmed misogynist, counsels his nephew Harry Howells to avoid matrimony at all costs. Still, the lovestruck Harry is...

Mickey and Grady are left behind when a new kid comes to town and all the girls fall for him.

An estranged couple visit their old apartment, which is now occupied by Charley and his wife. Charley's wife, however, misunderstands the purpose of...

A man, accidentally locked out of his house is mistaken for a burglar as he attempts to re-enter the house. The gag is that the person mistaking...

Spanky's mother pushes him to join a local theater amateur night.

28th release in 'The Smith Family' series of 2-reel comedies.

The accident-prone Smith family (Raymond McKee, Ruth Hiatt, and Mary Ann Jackson) head to the beach in this Mack Sennett comedy directed by Alf...

Glenn Tryon is at his Bachelor's Dinner, attended only by a dozen of his girl friends, prior to marrying Connie Watts but Ma Watts has plans for...

A rival courtships in a variety of absurd situations.

The Smith Family goes for bargain hunt at a warehouse sale.

Baby Bubbles torments her babysitting grandmother (Sunshine Hart) while her parents enjoy a rare night out at the movies.

Third release in 'The Smith Family' series of 2-reel comedies. Omar the dog, usually the most sedate member of the Smith family, has a starring role...

13th release in 'The Smith Family' series of 2-reel comedies. The Smiths at the candy shop.

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...

Eighth release in 'The Smith Family' series of 2-reel comedies. Bubbles is up to mischief.

Twelfth release in 'The Smith Family' series of 2-reel comedies and the family gos fishing while their house is renovated.

Ninth release in 'The Smith Family' series of 2-reel comedies and the family buys a new home.

Dad Brooks is in financial trouble and needs to sell a lot of horses. But they are being rustled and needing help, he sends for Tom. Tom looks for...

Part of a 7-part series exploring all aspects of Hollywood.

Willie, as an assistant window-dresser, is the lowest man on the totem pole at a department store. To add insult-to-injury Willie is also the store's...

When the mayor fires the lazy sheriff, lucky Lloyd happens to be at the wrong place at the wrong time and ends up with a star badge on his chest. He...

Lloyd Hamilton stars in this Educational short.

Harry Shelby has been kept in knee pants for years by his overprotective parents, but the day finally comes when Harry is given his first pair of...