![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Mr. Flip
As thin on plot as you tend to expect early one-reel comedies to be, Mr. Flip is about as lean as you'll find. Director 'Bronco Billy' Anderson and actor Ben Turpin had some evolving to do and were in early experimental stages. Some trivia: In the final scene, Turpin receives what is generally believed to be the first "pie-in-the-face." IMDb entry: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0236517/
Keywords: silent; slapstick; ben turpin; gilbert anderson; pie-in-the-face
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| A Cure for Pokeritis
John Bunny was the first major comedic performer of cinema. His short, plump figure (he stood 5"4' and weighed over 300 lbs.) and round face were internationally recognized as he starred in 173 short comedies from 1909 to 1914. Yet, for all of the fame he enjoyed during his acting career, he was almost immediately forgotten following his death in 1915. In "A Cure for Pokeritis", George Brown (Bunny) is a compulsive gambler who promises his wife (Flora Finch) he will give up his game of choice, p...
Keywords: silent; comedy; john bunny; compulsive gambling
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| Mabel's Dramatic Career
An all-star Keystone cast, featuring Mabel Normand, Mack Sennet, Fatty Arbuckle, Ford Sterling and the Keystone Kops. After a brief love affair, Mack rejects his maid Mabel. She moves on after a nasty altercation. He later discovers she has become a star on the silver screen. IMDb entry: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0003104/
Keywords: silent; slapstick; keystone; mabel normand
Downloads: 744 |  |
| One Too Many
Long before teaming with Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy starred with Billy Ruge in a series of comedies as "Plump and Runt." It was relatively short-lived, as they did 35 films together in 1915 and 1916, mainly one reels. It was the pinnacle of Ruge's career, and he disappeared from movies a few years later. Hardy moved on to bigger things. In this short, Plump receives an announcement of a coming visit by a rich uncle...
Keywords: silent; slapstick; plump and runt; billy ruge; oliver hardy
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| Mabel and Fatty Viewing the World's Fair
Silent comedy legends Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and Mabel Normand at the 1915 San Francisco World's Fair Panama-Pacific Exposition. The theme of the expo was the newly built Panama Canal, and it also focused on San Francisco's newly rebuilt infrastructure following the earthquake of 1906. IMDb entry: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0005675/
Keywords: silent; documentary; san francisco; fatty arbuckle; mabel normand
Downloads: 1,299
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| The Unappreciated Joke
A very short silent comedy from Edison's studios.
Keywords: silent; comedy; Edison
Downloads: 891
Average rating:  (3 reviews) |  |
| The Road to Hollywood - Bud Pollard, Robert M. Savini
Exploitation film-maker Bud Pollard appears on screen to tell us of Bing Crosby's rise to fame, using scenes from four early Crosby shorts to illustrate his fictional biography
Keywords: Biography; Comedy; Musical; Bing Crosby
Downloads: 1,437
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| Speak Easily - Buster Keaton
Taken from IMDB: Naive, bookish Professor Post (of Potts College) inherits a huge amount of money and decides that now he can afford to go out and enjoy life. He falls for a dancer in a bad stage show, and with his new money decides to buy the show and take it to Broadway.
Keywords: Comedy
Downloads: 3,818
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| The Navigator
Buster Keaton plays a fellow who finds himself alone on a ship at sea with the neighbor girl across the street - whom he happens to have a crush on. You can read more about The Navigator on its IMDb page.
Keywords: Silent, Buster Keaton, Comedy, The Navigator
Downloads: 2,382
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| The Play House
Starring Buster Keaton. "This fellow Keaton seems to be the whole show" Keaton displays his many talents in this one. This comedic short displays not only Keaton's amazing talent, but some envelope pushing cinematography for it's time period, as well. The split screen shots which gave the illusion of more than one Keaton in any given scene were impressive even by today's standards. Certainly Keaton was a pioneer in the film industry in his talents and abilities! His works are still jaw-droppingl...
Keywords: Silent, Buster Keaton, comedy
Downloads: 2,437
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| The Rough House
Starring: Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle - Mr. Rough Buster Keaton - Gardener/Delivery Boy/Cop Don't eat at this guy's place... (Although, I have to admit, I got a kick out of the way this guy slices potatoes! Don't try any of these antics at home, people!) You can read about this film on its IMDb page.
Keywords: Silent, Buster Keaton, Fatty Arbuckle
Downloads: 6,151
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| Three Ages
This gut busting comedy, starring Buster Keaton, charmingly explores love in the three ages of life - the prehistoric age, the roman age, and the modern age. Throughout the years, where love is concerned, does anything really change? You can read more about this film on its IMDb page. Enjoy!
Keywords: Silent, Buster Keaton, Love, Romance, Comedy
Downloads: 1,412
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| The General - Joseph M. Schenc
Taken from IMDB: When Union spies steal an engineer's beloved locomotive, he pursues it single handedly and straight through enemy lines.
Keywords: Comedy; Romance; War; Action; Silent
Downloads: 6,350
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| The Speed Kings - Keystone Film Company
Plot taken from IMDb: Papa is taking his daughter Mabel (Normand) to an automobile race. Mabel is in love with Teddy Tetzlaff, but Papa prefers Earl Cooper, and he schemes to try to prevent Tetzlaff from winning the race. As the race begins, Papa and Mabel are watching it together with conflicting loyalties and strong emotions. Fatty Arbuckle appears as a race track official.
Keywords: comedy; short; auto racing
Downloads: 1,908
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| Fatty's Magic Pants - Keystone Film Company
Plot taken from IMDb: 'Fatty' is looking forward to attending a formal occasion. But in order to go, he has to be properly dressed, and he encounters unexpected difficulties in getting himself ready.
Keywords: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
Downloads: 2,121
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| Fatty Joins The Force - Keystone Film Company
Plot taken from IMDb: After rescuing the Police Commissioner's daughter from drowning, Fatty is rewarded with a position on the force, but soon finds that the job isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Keywords: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
Downloads: 1,418
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| A Natural Born Gambler - Bert Williams
In 1916 the Biograph film company signed black comedian Bert Williams to write, produce, direct and star in two comedies. Williams created "A Natural Born Gambler" and "Fish." While hardly a breakthrough in shattering racial stereotypes (Williams was required by the studio to wear "darkie" makeup), a black production with a black cast was unprecedented. The response was tepid and Williams did not appear in any movies after Fish...
Keywords: silent; comedy; slapstick; black history
Downloads: 2,111
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| The Bell Boy - Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle
Fatty Arbuckle and Buster Keaton team up as hotel bellhops. Some interesting props, including a horse-drawn elevator. Decent gags, culminating with a classic chase scene. The movie is not a classic, but it's typical Arbuckle and Keaton and a good illustration of the kind of comedy they did together. The IMDb entry is at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0008874/
Keywords: Arbuckle; Keaton; silent; comedy; slapstick
Downloads: 3,160
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| Three Broadway Girls - Samuel Goldwyn
A trio of money hungry women who all have sugar daddies who keep them in the lap of luxury, even as they drive the men crazy. Each woman represents a different personality type, from sensitive, to kind-hearted, to difficult and untrustworthy. Stars Joan Blondell.
Downloads: 18,518
Average rating:  (2 reviews) |  |
| Sex Life Of A Polyp - Fox Movietone Entertainment
Short subject comedy with Robert Benchley
Downloads: 6,884
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| Sex Life Of A Polyp - Fox Movietone Entertainment
Comedy short subject with Robert Benchley
Keywords: Comedy
Downloads: 2,259
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| The General (complete & clearer)
A great Buster Keaton silent movie. In 1862, after spies steal his locomotive, "The General", Keaton wages a one-man battle to recover it. The copies previously uploaded here were either incomplete or too blurry. I hope that this copy will be more satisfactory. You can load the mpeg2 file into DVDAuthorGUI (a free program) and create a DVD to watch on your television.
Keywords: railroad; war; locomotive; Buster Keaton; silent movie
Downloads: 11,658
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Half Shot at Sunrse - William LeBaron
Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey are privates in WWI France who chase girls, trade bad jokes and win battles.
Keywords: Comedy; Musical; WWI
Downloads: 13,137
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| Behave Yourself - Norman Krasna
When a cute Welsh terrier follows Bill Denny home, little does he know that all gangland has its eye on that dog. Who will be bumbling Bill's undoing - the gangsters, the cops, or his suspicious mother-in-law? Stars Farley Granger and Shelley Winters.
Keywords: Comedy; Romance
Downloads: 15,156
Average rating: (11 reviews) |  |
| Africa Screams
from IMDB.com: "Abbott & Costello search for diamonds in Africa, along the way meeting a visually-impaired gunner, a hungry lion, and a tribe of cannibals." Also stars Clyde Beatty and Shemp Howard. You can load the mpeg2 file into DVDAuthorGUI (a free program) and create a DVD to watch on your television.
Keywords: comedy; Abbott; Costello; Abbott and Costello
Downloads: 9,602
Average rating: (6 reviews) |  |
| Love Laughs at Andy Hardy - Robert Sisk
Andy Hardy returns from the military with love and marriage on his mind.
Keywords: Andy Hardy; Comedy
Downloads: 9,506
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Three Broadway Girls - Samuel Goldwyn
Three "former chorus girls" team up to capture rich husbands. But they spend as much time fighting with each other as they do the men they try to snare. This film is based on a a play by Zoe Akins "The Greeks Had A Word For It" which is also the basis for the softer and more genteel 50s version "How To Mary A Millionaire". Stars Joan Blondell.
Keywords: Comedy
Downloads: 3,533
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| Out West - Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle
"Fatty" Arbuckle and Buster Keaton, arguably the greatest comedy team of their time, team up in a western comedy. Be warned, there is a scene in the middle that will offend some with its racist tone. This should not spoil the movie. The IMDb entry is at http://imdb.com/title/tt0009466/
Keywords: Fatty Arbuckle; Buster Keaton; Silent; Comedy; Western
Downloads: 5,757
Average rating:  (2 reviews) |  |
| Judge Priest - Sol M. Wurtzel
Judge Priest depicting life in Kentucky after the Civil War and Reconstruction Period. It still shows the stereotypes and prejudices which existed at that time in a somewhat humorous manner. Based on a story by the noted Kentucky humorist, Irvin S. Cobb, it presents life as one would have imagined it at that time period.
Keywords: Comedy; Drama; Will Rogers
Downloads: 5,860
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Boys of the City - Sam Katzman
Street kids get sent to the country, where they get mixed up in murder and a haunted house.
Downloads: 9,296
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| Jack and the Beanstalk - Lou Costello
Abbott and Costello's version of Jack and Beanstalk
Keywords: Comedy; Fairy Tale
Downloads: 11,947
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| The Frozen North - Joseph M. Schenck
William S. Hart's melodramatic film finds Buster in the frozen north, "last stop on the subway." He uses a wanted poster as his partner in robbing a gambling house. When he thinks he spies his wife making love to another man he shoots them both only to learn it isn't his cabin after all.
Keywords: silent; Comedy; Buster Keaton
Downloads: 4,137
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| Palooka - Edward Small
Palooka is a 1934 comedy film based on the comic strip by Ham Fisher. Joe Palooka (Stuart Erwin) is a naive young man whose father Pete (Robert Armstrong) was a champion boxer, but his lifestyle caused Joe's mother Mayme (Marjorie Rambeau) to leave him and to take young Joe to the country to raise him. But when a shady boxing manager (Jimmy Durante) discovers Joe's natural boxing talent, Joe decides to follow him to the big city, where he becomes a champion and begins to follow his father's path...
Keywords: Comedy; Jimmy Durante
Downloads: 6,756
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| A Jazzed Honeymoon - Hal Roach
A 1919 short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd. Listed as Public Domain by Wikipedia.
Keywords: Harold Lloyd
Downloads: 5,475 |  |
| A Sammy in Siberia - Hal Roach
A 1919 short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd. Listed as Public Domain by Wikipedia.
Keywords: Harold Lloyd
Downloads: 3,824 |  |
| Tied for Life - Screencraft Pictures
Tied for Life starring Harry Langdon, Vernon Dent, Nell O'Day, Mabel Forrest, Tom Dempsey, and Eddie Baker
Keywords: Harry Langdon
Downloads: 761
Average rating:  (2 reviews) |  |
| Never Weaken - Hal Roach
From Wikipedia: Never Weaken is a 1921 silent comedy film starring Harold Lloyd and directed by Fred Newmeyer. It was Lloyd's last short film, running to three reels, before he moved permanently into feature-length production. It was also one of his trademark "thrill" comedies, featuring him dangling from a tall building. Lloyd and his crew honed and perfected their "thrill" filming techniques in this film, and put them to astonishing use in the 1923 classic feature Safety Last!...
Keywords: Harold Lloyd
Downloads: 6,652
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| The Mystery Of The Leaping Fish
From IMDB: Coke Ennyday, the scientific detective, divides his own time in periods for "Sleep", "Eat", "Dope" and "Drink". In fact he's used to overcome every situation with drugs: consuming it to increase his energies or injecting it in his opponents to KO them. To help the police he discovers a contraband of opium (which he eagerly tastes) transported with "Leaping Fishes", and the blackmail of a mysterious man who wants to marry the "fish blower" girl...
Keywords: Douglas Fairbanks; D.W. Griffith; Tod Browning
Downloads: 5,780
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Rain - Lewis Milestone
Sadie Thompson vs. The Puritans. Maxwell Anderson's screenplay of the W. Somerset Maugham story. Joan Crawford. Walter Huston, William Gargan For more info on this film see its IMDB.com entry
Keywords: drama; South Seas
Downloads: 27,375
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| The Front Page - The Caddo Company
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021890/ There's nothing like an original !!! Hildy Johnson (Pat O'Brien), newspaper reporter, is engaged to Peggy Grant and planning to move to New York for a higher paying advertising job. The court press room is full of lame reporters who invent stories as much as write them. All are waiting to cover the hanging of Earl Williams. When Williams escapes from the inept Sheriff, Hildy seizes the opportunity by using his $260 honeymoon money to payoff an insider and get...
Keywords: Pat O'Brien; Adolphe Menjou; Ben Hecht; newspapers; comedy
Downloads: 29,280
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| The Admiral Was A Lady - Roxbury Productions
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042182/ Really enjoyable movie set just after WWII about a woman ensign (nicknamed the admiral) who falls in with a gang of lovable losers - four ex-GIs who work diligently from dusk to dawn at finding ways to avoid work. There's a silly subplot about them trying to get her back together with her long lost fiancee, and an even sillier sub-sub plot about a rich millionaire and meddling detectives...
Keywords: comedy; WAVES; romance
Downloads: 30,260
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| The Young In Heart
From IMDb: The Carletons (Janet Gaynor, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) make a living as card sharps and finding new suckers from whom to mooch off. When their latest scam backfires, they are asked to leave Monte Carlo. At the train station, they meet a kind old woman named Miss Fortune (Minnie Dupree). The elderly lady is very wealthy and very lonely. As a reward for saving her life after the train derails, Miss Fortune invites the Carletons to come live with her...
Keywords: comedy; conmen
Downloads: 10,741
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Check And Double Check
Read about this movie on it's IMDB page http://imdb.com/title/tt0020758/
Downloads: 2,319
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| The General
Complete version (other version on archive.org is missing 1st 4 minutes) Union solders have stolen The General, a Confederate train manned by Johnnie Gray, who was unable to enlist in the Confederate army because he is needed as an engineer. The Union plans to use the train to supply its soldiers in a sneak attack against the Confederates. But now it's up to Gray and his love, Annabelle Lee, to reclaim The General, recross enemy lines, and warn the Confederates...
Keywords: Silent; Comedy; Romance; War; Buster Keaton
Downloads: 8,188
Average rating:  (1 review) |  |
| Love Laughs at Andy Hardy - Robert Sisk
This film starts with Andy Hardy returning home after serving in the army. And it's not too long before he's caught up in the usual Hardy capers. Stars Mickey Rooney as the freshman and Lewis Stone as his dad.
Keywords: Drama; Comedy; Romance; Mickey Rooney
Downloads: 4,335
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| The Flying Deuces (1939)
Its a good film.
Keywords: Markus
Downloads: 286
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| The Stolen Jools - Pat Casey
The Stolen Jools is a short comedy film made in 1931. It features many cameo appearances by the film stars of the day. They appeared to help raise funds for the National Variety Artists tuberculosis sanitarium. This film is also known by the name The Slippery Pearls. Cast: * Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. * Buster Keaton * Stan Laurel * Oliver Hardy * Barbara Stanwyck * Joan Crawford * Edward Robinson * Gary Cooper * Maurice Chevalier * Norma Shearer * Eddie Kane * Dorothy Lee * Loretta Young * Wallace ...
Keywords: Comedy; Short
Downloads: 17,459
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| Lil Abner
Daisy Mae hopes to win Lil Abner in the Sadie Hawkins Day race.
Downloads: 1,697
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| Hi De Ho - E.M. Glucksman
Cab Calloway plays himself in a plot about jealousy, night clubs, and gangsters.
Keywords: Musical
Downloads: 8,796
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Mr. Wise Guy - Sam Katzman
The number eight in the East SIde Kids series. The kids are sent to reform school after being falsely accused of stealing a truck.
Keywords: Bowery Boys; East Side Kids; Comedy
Downloads: 8,127
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
