Al Thompson

Set in the lowlands of North Carolina, this story follows the rite of passage of a jaded, aimless high school senior (West) as he falls in love with a guileless young woman (Moore) he and his friends once scorned. (Warner Brothers)

To escape the police, the stooges pose as plumbers and are hired to fix a leak in a fancy mansion. They wind up crossing the electrical system with the plumbing and generally ruin the place. One memorable scene has the lady of the house tuning into a television broadcast from Niagara Falls as a torrent of water pours from the set. To escape the wrath of the homeowners the stooges escape through a magicians trap door. (imdb)

Larry falls afoul of wanted criminal Gentleman Joe, who runs a saloon full of tough guys and gunslingers. (imdb)

A government official staying in a hotel puts some important secret papers in the hotel safe. A ring of spies out to get the papers manages to steal them from the safe, and a lady government agent enlists the help of the hotel's bumbling bellhop in getting back the papers and breaking up the spy ring. (imdb)

A bumbling sawmill employee tries to win the hand of the owner's daughter while staying out of the clutches of the mill's bullying foreman. (imdb)

A harried propman backstage at a theater must put up with malfunctioning wind machines, roosters that spit nitroglycerin, and a gang planning to rob the theater's payroll. (imdb)

"A Season on the Brink: A Year with Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers" is based on the best-selling book by John Feinstein. The movie chronicles Indiana's 1985-86 season, when Knight granted Feinstein unprecedented access to the team and its practices, meetings, and huddles.

Semon as a detective trying to deal with some roughnecks. (imdb)

The Sportsman is an American film comedy first released in 1921, directed by Larry Semon and Norman Taurog. The film stars Larry Semon, Lucille Carlisle, Al Thompson, Frank Alexander and William Hauber. (imdb)

Just look at the title of this one. It's just called "Golf." No reference to the events of a story involving golf, because it's really a showcase for crazy Larry Semon gags involving golf. Some semblance of a situation is introduced in the beginning. At first it seems like an excuse to set up some very punny title cards (which I must admit appreciating), but then it becomes clear that it's also setting up a funny bit wherein Larry is introduced rather destructively playing golf indoors. (imdb)

The storm, which takes up most of the second reel, is a trial run for the storm sequence in The Wizard Of Oz which Semon would make in 1925. Fox released a comedy that was an exact copy of Lightning Love just before the Semon film was due to come out. Albert E. Smith noticed the similarities and on September 5, 1923 attempted to have the Fox film pulled from the exhibitors. (lordheath.com)

he Midnight Cabaret is a 1923 American film directed by Larry Semon and featuring Oliver Hardy. (imdb)

Lloyd Hamilton chasing a butterfly in the slapstick comedy "Papa's Boy". (imdb)

In this one, we are introduced to a pretentious and uppity family who we just KNOW will be brought down to size later in the short. Then we cut to Lloyd Hamilton, stumbling along, and finding a job advertisement for an electrician's helper. He applies for the job (literally dangling over the business!), and from there on out there is solid physical comedy of all kinds. (imdb)

Al St John loves Lena, but he also loves to sleep. Will he get out of bed soon enough to take Lena from his dull rival, so he can have an argument with the girl where he cries "LISTEN, LENA"? Or will he roll back over, and later get busted by a mean cop for sleepwalking in his bed clothes? (imdb)

This is a better than average Hamilton film thanks to the presence of a bratty kid who makes Lloyd's life miserable. It seems that Lloyd was hired as a combination chauffeur, butler, cook, etc. and isn't particularly adept at any of these tasks. however, to make things worse, there is a bratty kid in the home who does his best to ruin everything. (imdb)

Al St. John starring in "Hot or Cold (1928)", a Mermaid Comedies. (youtube.com)

Rivals go at it as cab drivers, romancers of the same girl and football teams. (imdb)

Larry having to go through a lot of trouble to get his girl. All from bomb baking cooks to high flying crashes.

Larry might be a hick causing a lot of trouble at the farm, but he shows he can outsmart those crooked city folks!

Young David Morton, heir to millions, has been over-zealously restrained from normal youthful activities by his two old-maid Aunts, Harriet and Agatha. In an outburst from his confinement, he meets lovely Gertrude, and promises to race her injured-brothers car in the Big Race. Between the gangsters trying to win the race by disabling him, and his bungling bodyguards trying to bring him home safely, David has a battle to win the race and Gertrude's heart. (imdb)

Amnesiac can't find the other half of his winning sweepstakes ticket. (imdb)

Naval recruit Elmer is seemingly unable to discharge any of his duties without making life miserable for his irascible commanding officer, who winds up getting doused with paint, splattered with muck, and repeatedly tossed into the water due to Elmer's ineptitude. To make matters worse, Elmer takes a shine to the CO's girlfriend, which prompts her jealous boyfriend into several wrathful chases after Elmer. He eventually has Elmer locked in the brig.

Worried that he has gotten the free-spirited Mindy pregnant after an unprotected one-night stand, Fred feigns romantic interest and sticks by her side for twelve hours to make sure she takes both doses of the morning-after pill (imdb)

After a good-natured Irish cop is framed for a diamond robbery and murder and presumed dead in a train wreck, he gets plastic surgery and returns to expose the real killers. (imdb)

Hospitalized Eric Loudermilk Potts tells his story to a golddinging nurse. He's a bridegroom who misses his own wedding because he can't stop chasing fire trucks. Fiancee Mae breaks up with him to marry milksop Wilber at her father's insistence. But Eric's butler Simmons is determined to help true love, and arranges for Eric to crash the wedding and win Mae back. (threestooges.net)

Western Slapstick. A good chance to see Al St. John moving into the western comedy sidekick that would be his bread and butter role for the next twenty years. Also, it's a rare screen opportunity for Addie McPhail, Roscoe Arbuckle's wife and therefore Al's aunt.

A dim witted, scrawny fellow from the country finds college full of bullies that trick him into various painful situations with the dean. His wife mistakes him for a prize athlete, and he's put on the football team. The big game includes unusual things like a mud hole on the field and a wasp nest substituting for the ball. (imdb)

A comedy short from Weiss Brothers starring Jimmy Aubrey & Al Thompson.

When Harry, a graduate student in New York City, meets Grace, he immediately falls for her. With the help of some dating tips from a seductive divorcee, Harry successfully courts Grace. But when he's introduced to her parents, a shared secret turns his world into a living nightmare. Forced to survive a weekend riddled with tension and socially awkward moments, the bonds of both couples are tested to their breaking point. (imdb)

Larry Semon comedy for Vitagraph.

Andy's annoying brother-in-law (Shemp Howard) gets him fired from his job, and then tag-a-longs on a vacation with Andy (Andy Clyde) and his wife (Esther Howard). (imdb)

Rival Taxi Companies compete for business and make a slapstick mess of everything. (imdb)

Friends head off to the remote island of Martha's Vineyard to celebrate New Year's Eve and reconnect. As tensions rise, an unforeseen presence halts celebrations and instead turns their holiday into a fight to live through to the new year. (imdb)

David De Portola, an outstanding athlete with an abundant youthful exuberance, is raised by a wealthy American guardian. He learns that he is the heir to the throne of Translavia and is recalled to accept the Crown, which along with the freedom of the country is threatened by the impostor, Black Prince.

A Hollywood satire in slapstick.

A dinner involving two couples gets complicated.

Seaman foils a ring of Nazi saboteurs.

After his wife complains about the number of nights Woodcock (Shemp Howard) spends at the Hoot Owl Lodge, he takes her on a belated honeymoon. The first person they meet is lodge member Joe Wilson, who asks Woodcock to help him retrieve some ill-advised letters to lovely hotel guest Irene (Christine McIntyre). Woodcock soon finds himself caught between his jealous wife, and Irene's Latin-tempered fiancee Ricardo. (themoviedb)

Buster, an ice delivery man, falls for one of his customers, not knowing she has a twin sister living next door. (imdb)

Good samaritan Shemp rescues a girl from an accident, and a newspaper photographer snaps a picture of her thanking Shemp. The paper mixes up the caption, implying that Shemp and the girl are lovers. This doesn't sit well with Shemp's fiancee, who breaks off their engagement, leaving him so heartbroken he asks the rescued girl's gangster boyfriend to kill him. When Shemp's intended returns and apologizes, he realizes that his days are numbered unless he can find the gangster and call off

Slim and Emmett both try to make romantic overtures to the town widow, but a feud erupts between the two friends when the woman falls for Slim, instead.

A fortune from a scale weighs heavy on our hero when all goes wrong while looking for prosperity just around the corner.

At a small hotel, Judith Barrett and Norman Peck are eloping; John Litel and Addie MacPhail are quarreling because of his constant jealousy; and Eva Thacher and Al Thompson are tracking down their eloping daughter. It's a constant barrage of slamming doors and such trapping of the stage farce.

When a man's wife inherits $50,000, he quits his job and assumes that he can now take life easy. However, his newly rich wife has her own ideas of how he is going to spend his time.

His wife's obsession with playing bridge is starting to drive Leon crazy.

Monte tries to make a turkey dinner.

Andy's wife welcomes a barrage of homeless people into their house, much to the annoyance of Andy.

Andy is mistaken for "Jack the Kisser," a man who grabs women on the street and kisses them.

This film, with Larry as a dry agent, pokes fun at the situations which the enforcement act has produced throughout the country.

The acrobatic Molino brothers give hotel-keeper Fern Emmett a rough time in this Educational one-reeler, directed by Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle.

After being falsely accused of kidnapping, Slim is thrown in jail. His troubles get worse when a lynch mob starts forming outside the jail.

Only the first reel is known to survive. Bill and Jennie marry over his aunt's objections. As the couple leaves on their honeymoon, his aunt shows up to chaperon. A luggage mix-up causes jealousy and suspicion.