William McCall

Ed King travels east to sell Pop Blake's cattle. While there Buck, another of Blake's hands, plans to rob Ed by using a local girl Ming Toy as a decoy. Ming Toy gets the money and returning empty handed, and before the other hands arrive, Ed is surprised to find Ming Toy return with the men. (imdb)

In Highland Park, it's Agnes Fisher and Harold Hope's wedding day. Mishaps almost keep them from getting hitched: he goes to the wrong church, then, one of the guests, Professor McGlumm, convinces him that the bride only wants him to collect his life insurance. Finally they marry and her family moves in with them. Harold is now convinced that he'll be poisoned at dinner. When further mishaps give him stomach problems, McGlumm rushes him toward the hospital. On the trip, all is revealed. (imdb)

Bears and Bad Men is a 1918 silent comedy film directed by Larry Semon[1] and featuring Stan Laurel. (en.wikipedia.org)

The story is of two convicts always trying to escape, until one day when they actually manage to. They meet up with a girl and become rivals for her charms. (imdb)

This film represents one of Larry Semon's pro-war films. He is a clumsy guy working in a restaurant and oddly, everyone who works in the place as well as many of the customers are Kaiser-loving spies. Why they would be headquartered in a restaurant in California, I have no idea! Regardless, their aim is to steal some plans from some old guy and his daughter. When Semon finds out, he comes to the rescue. (imdb)

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, 'counter jumper' was the term used in both Britain and the U.S.A. to describe the lowest dogsbody clerk in a general store or emporium. Here, Semon is employed in that capacity in an Old West general store that caters for desperate characters. As usual for Semon, most of the gag set-ups are deeply contrived and implausible. We get here not one but two separate sequences in which randomly splattered stains just happen to resemble a human face. (imdb)

Three cowboys try to stop a crook from defrauding an orphan girl out of her money. (imdb)

A Mack Sennett slapstick comedy short starring Ralph Graves. (imdb)

Detective Harry is on the trail of a stolen diamond necklace worth $100,000. (imdb)

Ben returns from the big city with his pockets full of cash. A hard-hearted, gold-digging vamp ensnares him. Ben enjoys being ensnared. In order to get rid of his faithful sweetheart, he schemes up a preposterous tale. (imdb)

A bride and groom are all set to get married, but they can't until the best man shows up. When the best man eventually does show up, he causes a few problems since he ran through some tar just before entering the church. The groom doesn't seem to mind too much, just as long as the best man brought the ring, which he did. But as the wedding proceeds, that sticky tar just can't help but get the best man into one disastrous incident after another, including with the ring. (imdb)

In and out of the water, Billy makes waves at the Blue Point Beach Club. (imdb)

Jack Cooper has a taxi inspector on his heels, and later confuses the inspector's wife for a theater automaton. Each section is highlighted by a major set piece of a gag and they are well done. (imdb)

Donald Drake, a deep sea gondolier ex soda jerk, arrives at the All Nation Cafe in Shanghai. The proprietor believes he's a penniless ne'er-do-well - which he is - but he unexpectedly comes into a small windfall. So the proprietor orders slightly rough around the edges Maud and Mollie, two of his American good time girls working their way around the world, to get him to spend all his money while there. (imdb)

A poor sap tries to impress his girl by fighting the great boxing champion Jack Dempsey. (imdb)

A Mack Sennett Comedy short starring Ralph Graves. (imdb)

When Steve Harper chases down some rustlers, he loses his gun in the ensuing fistfight. After Wilson is killed, Steve's gun is found nearby and he as arrested. Jimmy Wilson breaks him out of jail and he heads after the real killer. (imdb)

Andy gets into hot water because of his frequent lodge meetings. (imdb)

19th release in 'The Smith Family' series of 2-reel comedies.

The plot has Ben Turpin as the prince of a mythical country who is being forced to wed a princess not of his choosing. In 1947, an outfit headed by J.J.Balaber, called Grand International Pictures, acquired 1,300,000 feet of Mack Sennet films with the intentions of editing 26 short comedies from them. The first of these was a 13 minute short edited from "When a Man's A Prince" and released on June 18,1947 as the first of the "Americana Comedy Film Classic Series." (imdb)

Larry Connell arrives in town and wins a cattle ranch in a poker game. The former owner then forces the Judge to start legal action to retrieve it. When Larry is evicted and the cattle sold, he fights back by first stealing the cattle money and using it to hire a Lawyer. (imdb)

Roland Royce (Ralph Graves) takes his family and a beautiful nurse (Olive Borden) on a camping trip but everything goes wrong. (imdb)

Dan Doolittle is a poor schmuck whose big talk usually gets him into trouble. After he is fired from his plumbing job, he saves Dolly Davis, who, grateful, promises to get him a job at the company where she works, Owl Taxi, which is owned by her father. That job is as the jack-of-all-trades in the garage, under the supervision of the garage foreman, whose job he expects to have within the week. (imdb)

Amos faces a few difficulties as he tries to drive his cross-eyed wife and their two rambunctious children to California. (imdb)

Ralph Graves is a football hero that delvers ice for a living in this Mack Sennett slapstick comedy. (imdb)

Friends Billy Trotter and Homer Brown are both traveling salesmen who meet up at a hotel on their travels. Since they last saw each other, Billy has gotten married. Homer is lamenting still being single and thinks that he will never find a woman who will want to be Mrs. Brown. Billy gets one of his old girlfriends, Peggy, a telephone operator, reluctantly to set Homer up with one of her friends.

Ralph Graves plays a cabaret singer who is mistaken for a duke while courting society girl Ruth Taylor.

Ben Turpin, now engaged to a gold digger, goes to visit his former lover, a dancing girl at the theater. The dancing girl doesn't want to let Ben go and makes many empty threats. Eventually she follows Ben home and he is also visited be his fiancée and her mother.

Big Boy's father takes his son and new dog to his firehouse. His chief, however, has just posted a notice that children and pets are forbidden, so this decent but episodic Jack White comedy turns into a series of narrow escapes from authority and a flea circus.

This bottom-of-the-barrel entry from Victor Adamson/Art Mix productions finds jobless cowpuncher Jim Kirk riding into Cottonwood, Arizona looking for the man who swindled his father. Old pal Art James tells him that Ed Calder, a shady rancher who moved in a few months ago, might be his man. Jim joins Art at the Crazy K Ranch owned by Sam Kent and his daughter Sally, with Bill Dobbs as their foreman. Jim saves Sally from badman Lynx Merson, who is out to get her father for past transgressions.

Two men, Philip Whittemore (Henry B. Walthall) and Thorpe (Harry Northrup) both go to the Northwest to gain the right-of-way for their railroad company from D'Arcambal (Emmett King). Whittemore arrives first and D'Arcambal refuses to meet with him until he saves his daughter, Jeanne (Pauline Starke) from going over the rapids. Then Thorpe arrives and tries to use force by kidnapping Jeanne and insisting that he is her father.

A Mack Sennett Talking Comedy, released through Paramount Pictures, starring Franklin Pangborn and featuring Dorothy Granger.

Andy Wilson (Andy Clyde), a millionaire pig farmer from Kansas, comes to Chicago (unless New York has a stock yard district)looking for his girl friend, Natalie (Dorothy Christy) who had left the Sunflower state as she did not care much for the company of pigs and/or pig handlers, although Andy wasn't rich when she left, else she would have most likely been a bit more tolerant. Andy runs into his old friend Jake (Billy Bevan), who has been married for about a year to another belle from Kansas.

Ed Brady has killed about a dozen of the police department's detective squad, so they have promoted a batch to that rank and sent Lloyd Hamilton to capture Brady.

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

Pert Kelton and Tom Dugan star in this 1931 short directed by Mack Sennett, having a little dinner party.

A singing doughboy on the Western Front volunteers for a dangerous mission behind enemy lines.