Films and TV Shows from the 1920s

poster Brothers Under the Chin
Brothers Under the Chin
24mn - Comedy
Twin "babies" left at an orphanage bear the same birthmark under the chin. One of them is adopted and then the scene shifts to "twenty years later." The other as captain of a sailing vessel needs an extra…
poster Stick Around
Stick Around
24mn - Comedy
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 as…
poster Collars and Cuffs
Collars and Cuffs
11mn - Comedy
Collars and Cuffs is a 1923 silent comedy film starring Stan Laurel.
poster Should Tall Men Marry?
Should Tall Men Marry?
20mn - Comedy, Western
This western comedy is about rancher Finlayson's beautiful daughter, Martha Sleeper, who refuses to marry the bad guy and how Jimmy and dimwitted cowhand Stan bumble their way into a successful defense of…
poster The Egg
The Egg
20mn - Comedy
Stan plays a mischievous and clumsy worker in a lumber factory.
poster When Knights Were Cold
When Knights Were Cold
20mn - Comedy
Though only the second half survives, here's a synopsis of what's left: Stan is a Robin Hood-type character in a medieval walled town. He's chased by an army of knights, but both he and his pursuers ride …
poster A Few Moments with Eddie Cantor
A Few Moments with Eddie Cantor
7mn -
Early sound film featuring comedian Eddie Cantor.
poster Cat, Dog & Co.
Cat, Dog & Co.
20mn - Family, Comedy
Farina, Joe, and friends use dogs to power their "roadsters," but following a lesson from the head of the Be Kind to Animals Society, they make it their cause to rescue animals from bad treatment. Joe eve…
poster Crazy to Act
Crazy to Act
25mn -
Millionaire film producer Gordon Bagley wants to marry Ethel St. John, the leading lady in his latest film. Ethel is in love with Arthur Young, the hero of Bagley's lastest movie. Work on the film starts,…
poster Dog Heaven
Dog Heaven
32mn - Comedy
Poor Pete the Pup. He wants to hang himself because his master, Joe, has given up playing with him and going fishing for the love of a girl. A dog friend of Pete's stops him in the nick of time, and in fl…
poster Playin' Hookey
Playin' Hookey
29mn - Comedy
Wheezer gets excited watching his dog Pansy attack and rip apart the chickens and furniture in the back yard. His mother is upset, and his father takes his rifle to shoot the dog. Meanwhile, Joe Cobb has …
poster Sunday Calm
Sunday Calm
20mn - Comedy
The kids gets taken on a Sunday picnic in this early three-reeler and after the first ten minutes, manage to elude the adults in this typically charming effort from Our Gang.
poster The Bakery
The Bakery
24mn - Crime, Comedy, Action
Well-meaning but accident-prone bakery employee Larry is involved in numerous slapstick mishaps on the job. After accidentally causing the bakery owner to fall into a vat of cake batter Larry finds his jo…
poster The Bees' Buzz
The Bees' Buzz
21mn - Comedy
Two friends - Andy and Harry - get into trouble while they are trying to prevent the marriage of Andy's daughter.
poster The Weak-End Party
The Weak-End Party
9mn - Comedy
A riotous comedy of social errors, as absurd as a butler's whiskers.
poster The Whole Truth
The Whole Truth
10mn - Comedy
A prosecutor instructs the audience of a courtroom to observe the tearful and slightly hysterical wife (Helen Gilmore) who is sitting in the witness box, and claims she is this way due to her husband, who…
poster The High Sign
The High Sign
21mn - Crime, Comedy
Buster is thrown off a train near an amusement park. There he gets a job in a shooting gallery run by the Blinking Buzzards mob. Ordered to kill a businessman, he winds up protecting the man and his daugh…
poster It's a Gift
It's a Gift
12mn - Comedy
A group of oil magnates are trying to think of new ways to attract business. One of them suggests that they contact the inventor Pollard, who has devised a new gasoline substitute. Pollard himself lives i…
poster The Fourth Alarm
The Fourth Alarm
20mn - Comedy
The rascals once again, now as a plumbers.
poster The Light in the Dark
The Light in the Dark
63mn - Drama, Crime
A young girl is struck and seriously injured by a wealthy society matron's car. The woman brings the girl back to her house. Later, a hardened thief is told by the girl of a goblet, that could be the Holy…