Movies: Slapstick comedy

Roscoe is a family man at the seaside, lumbered with a shrewish wife and an extremely annoying young son. He meets up with a charming young lady in a bathing costume, and the two of them break into a charming and delightful dance. Unfortunately, the ...

The story of the first Thanksgiving is re-imagined as a father tells it to his son....

Short comedy which posits that in a hundred years men's styles will revert to Regency garb, and that there will be a complete gender role reversal, with husband Clyde Cook staying home alone while wife Katherine Grant goes tomcatting around town....

This domestic comedy depicts a woman who stops her husband's gambling habit by having her cousin stage a fake police raid on the weekly poker game....

Åsa-Nisse has found a new job as forest ranger at count Malcolms estate Segerstad....

Short comedy set in a haunted hotel. Filmed using "Kinekature" which provides lens distortion....

Musty Suffer gets a job as a chef and waiter at an automat restaurant. Various customers attempt to filch food or money from the coin slots, and Musty deals with the situation....

A 1914 comedy starring Eddie Lyons and Lee Moran. Bob (Lyons) steals a necklace from the woman he loves, Victoria, in order to give it back to her as a hero. Victoria’s father hires a detective (Moran) to find the thief - and detective and thief have...

A short comedy directed by Mabel Normand and Mack Sennett. believed to be a lost film....

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Two men are released from prison and while keeping up appearances, they steal everything they can from the guards hugging them farewell....

Musty Suffer gets a job as a maid. Then he gets a job as a butler, in the same household. Then he gets a job as a gardener. This becomes complicated....

A bizarre comedy short in which knockabout comics Charles O'Donnell and Jack Blair show up to repair a woman's house, but spend more time wrecking things and doing pratfalls. There's even a pantomime horse that causes trouble!...

The mishaps of a man who steps into the street wearing his brand-new white suit, and who instantly encounters every conceivable insult to his suit's integrity: a coalman bumps into him, a waiter spills food on him, a painter walks into him....

Robinet, the lead in this Italian slapstick comedy, wants to be an aviator in the worst way, and this being an Italian slapstick, that's how he does it. Italian slapstick in this period was absolutely bone-breaking, so much so that it makes Keystone ...

Rick and Vivian O'Neill struggle with the greatest test of their marriage....

This short film takes a nostalgic look at the Mack Sennett comedies of the silent cinema era....

Fatty's flirting with neighbor Kennedy's wife, and he isn't happy about it. Al's a crook, Minta's a maid and Fatty gets caught in a chase through the house while Edgar's shooting at him....

The troubles of a movie projectionist in a newly-purchased theater are chronicled in this two-reeler starring Paul Parrot and Mildred June....

Max starts out at a costume store to get a costume for a party. He sees a suit of armor and purchases it. He wears it to the party and gets kind of drunk and passes out. In the meantime, a museum has a suit of armor ready for a new display. It is to ...