![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | 'Their Purple Moment (excerpt, 1928)
'Their Purple Moment'(excerpt, 1928) Starring Laurel & Oliver Hardy Directed by James Parrott (with Leo McCarey) The Beau Hunks/Jurjen Hempel, conductor Score compiled from stock music by Leroy Shield
Keywords: Classic Arts Showcase
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| That Gang of Mine - Sam Katzman
You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page.
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| 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
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| The Amazing Adventure - Alfred Zeisler, Robert Garrett, Otto Klement
Cary Grant plays Earnest Bliss a rich socialite who makes a bet with his doctor that he can make a living for one year using none of his current wealth.
Keywords: Romance; Comedy; Drama
Downloads: 27,431
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| The Balloonatic - Joseph M. Schenck
AKA Balloonatics Buster and Phyllis endure a number of outdoor adventures trying to prove to each other their survival skills. The balloon which lands Buster in the wilderness proves useful later on as their canoe is about go over a waterfall.
Keywords: Silent; Comedy; Buster Keaton
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| The Bashful Bachelor - Jack Votion
The second film in the movie adaptation of Lum and Abner radio program.
Keywords: Comedy; Lum and Abner
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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
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| The Blacksmith - Raymond Rohauer and Joseph M. Schenck
Blacksmiths' assistant inadvertent clowning around in the shop, gets into fight with the smithy who is then arrested and placed in jail. In the meantime, the assistant tries to help several customers with devastating comedic consequences.
Keywords: Silent; Comedy; Buster Keaton
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| The Boat - Joseph M. Schenck
Buster's handmade boat, The Damfino, is finished and is, of course, too large to get through the basement door. When he drives off with it in tow, the side of his house, then the whole thing, collapses. At the harbor he rides the boat out only to have it sink beneath him. The rest is a series of adventures he and his family have with the restored boat. This funny short has some good subtile gags plus the usual slapstick and gadgets.
Keywords: Silent; Comedy; Buster Keaton
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| The Butcher Boy
The Butcher Boy Fatty Arbuckle and Buster Keaton (1º movie!!!) IMDB: This Fatty Arbuckle short feature is a historical treasure in that it was the first film appearance of the great Buster Keaton, and it has some decent slapstick too. Runtime: 30 min Country: USA Language: English Color: Black and White (tinted) Sound Mix: Silent
Keywords: Buster Keaton, Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle, Fatty Arbuckle, Fatty, Buster, Keaton
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| The Cameraman - Buster Keaton
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0018742/ Buster Keaton - The Cameraman Runtime:67 min / USA:75 min (TCM print) Country:USA Language:English Color:Black and White Aspect Ratio:1.33 : 1 more Sound Mix:Silent Certification:Australia:G / Brazil:Livre
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| The Electric House - Joseph M. Schenck
The Electric House starts with Buster's graduation ceremony as the first of his comic misfortunes, including a mix-up of diplomas so Buster receives a diploma in electrical engineering. This leads to a job opportunity: electrifying the family house of the girl he's sweet on. A great chance, so Buster studies hard and soon installs a useful and impressive set of electric appliances.
Keywords: Silent; Comedy; Buster Keaton
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| The Flying Deuces - Boris Morros
This was the first comedy that Laurel and Hardy starred in without producer Hal Roach, although they had previously been "guest stars" in four MGM movies. After they finished making "The Flying Deuces," they returned to Hal Roach Studios to make films. In order to make this movie, producer Boris Morros bought the rights to the 1931 French film "Les deux legionnaires," which had a similar plot. "The Flying Deuces" was Morros' first independent production and it was shot in continuity over a span ...
Keywords: Comedy; Laurel And Hardy
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| The Flying Deuces (1939)
Its a good film.
Keywords: Markus
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| The General - Buster Keaton, Joseph M. Schenck
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. The General based on a real incident during the American Civil War when a posse of northern soldiers hijac...
Keywords: Silent; Comedy; Romance; War; Buster Keaton
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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
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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
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| The Goat - Joseph M. Schenck
Dumb luck sets some policemen on his trail -- after a series of innovative escapes, he gets mistaken for a murderer with a price on his head, which means the people that aren't chasing him are fleeing from him.
Keywords: Silent; Comedy; Buster Keaton
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| The Kid Auto Race in Venice - Mack Sennett
Charlie the Tramp comes to a kid auto race, which a director just happens to be filming. Charlie constantly gets in the way, annoying the director, cameraman, and public. This film marks the first appearance of Charlie Chaplin's famous Tramp character.
Keywords: Silent; Comedy; Charles Chaplin
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| The Last Three - ipod version - Hal Roach
Frank Faylen and his buddies are merchant marines who's boat is sunk by a nazi sub. They later get there revenge by capturing the heads or the "new order". This is the same film in the feature films section. This one has been optimized to work on the ipod+video.
Keywords: ipod video, comedy, WWII
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| The Little Shop Of Horrors - Rodger Corman
Roger Corman classic about a nerdy flowershop clerk who grows a giant, man-eating plant. Jack Nicholson makes his film debut as a dental patient who loves pain.
Keywords: Rodger Corman; horror; black comedy; Jack Nicholson
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| 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
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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
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| The Paleface - Joseph M. Schenck
Buster Keaton stars in this comedy as the captive of hostile Indians. His captors tie him to a stake and prepare him for death by fire. Keaton moves with the stake as the Indians try frantically to place the firewood around him. When he survives the flames due to his fire-resistant clothes, Keaton is made a member of the tribe and named Little Chief Paleface. He then foils the scheme of unsavory oil speculators to steal the land from his Indian companion.
Keywords: Silent; Comedy; Buster Keaton
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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
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| The Playhouse - Joseph M. Schenck
The opening scene, a dream sequence prior to the vaudeville routines which follow, is what makes this film famous. In it Keaton plays everyone in a theatre simultaneously (through multiple exposures). He is the band leader, all its members, the dancers on the stage and everyone in the audience.
Keywords: Silent; Comedy; Buster Keaton
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| 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
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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
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| The Sin of Harold Diddlebock - Howard Hughes, Preston Sturges
This final film by silent screen star Harold Lloyd comes nine years after his previous feature. In this film, that reprises a character portrayed by Lloyd in a 1925 film, it is shown what happened to our hero, Harold Diddlebock (Lloyd), twenty years after his big triumph on the college football field. Struggling in the same job he received twenty years previous, Diddlebock is fired so he wanders the streets and eventually goes into a bar...
Keywords: Comedy; Preston Sturges; Harold Lloyd
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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
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| 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
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| The Three Ages - Buster Keaton
The First 'production' of Buster Keaton VERY comic!!! =D I Love this film. ¬¬ Please, click in 'MPEG4' and save the film!! I'm so stupid =P Runtime: 63 min / Spain:55 min Country: USA Color: Black and White Sound Mix: Silent Certification: Australia:G / Spain:T
Keywords: Buster Keaton, The Three Ages
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| The Unappreciated Joke
A very short silent comedy from Edison's studios.
Keywords: silent; comedy; Edison
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| 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
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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
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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.
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| 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
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| Three Stooges Episodes
4 Episodes Of The 3 Stooges. Downloads include: Disorder In The Court Brideless Groom Sing A Song Of Six Pants Malice In The Palace
Keywords: three stooges; comedy; public domain
Downloads: 95,570
Average rating: (12 reviews) |  |
| 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
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Average rating:  (2 reviews) |  |
| Two Weeks to Live - Jack William Votion and Ben Hersh
Keywords: Comedy
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Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
