It's a Hard Life
A henpecked husband goes out on a series of adventures. He is pursued by cops and detectives and joins the Salvation Army in an effort to escape.
Too Many Crooks is a lost 1927 American comedy silent film directed by Fred C. Newmeyer, written by E.J. Rath and Rex Taylor, and starring Mildred Davis, Lloyd Hughes, George Bancroft, El Brendel, William V. Mong, John St. Polis, and Otto Matieson. It was released on April 2, 1927, by Paramount Pictures.
A henpecked husband goes out on a series of adventures. He is pursued by cops and detectives and joins the Salvation Army in an effort to escape.
A comedy short featuring Sunshine Sammy Morrison.
Snub is a traffic cop and succeeds in mixing things up by trying to flirt with every pretty girl motorist.
'Snub' Pollard and Mildred Davis star in this 1920 comedy short.
Snub's many humorous experiences in attempting to transport his goat home. Comedy short directed by Charley Chase.
A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.
2 grave robbers find a town put under a curse by a witch, which causes the residents to have weak immune systems.
Rural comedy of the intrigues and stratagems involving a country wedding. From a comedy by Alexis Kivi.
When her grandson is kidnapped during the Tour de France, Madame Souza and her beloved pooch Bruno team up with the Belleville Sisters—an aged song-and-dance team from the days of Fred Astaire—to rescue him.
A lonely mime takes desperate measures in order to find the audience he deserves.
A series of trick film hallucinations and scary doubling effects result when Patachon smokes an opium cigarette.
A couple of kids lay their hands on a pot of very strong glue and proceed to wreak havoc.
Gold digging blonde Lorelei and her brunette friend Dorothy are searching for rich husbands. This film is believed lost.
A tramp cares for a boy after he's abandoned as a newborn by his mother. Later the mother has a change of heart and aches to be reunited with her son.
In this partially lost silent film, a man working as a motion picture extra in Hollywood westerns impresses a visiting sheikh with his boxing skills and is engaged to go to Arabia, where he becomes involved in warring and falls in love with a beautiful princess.
Three reporters and an office girl are trying to stop a bacteriological strike by some powerful western business leaders against the USSR.
An early Thomas Edison short. A young woman is kidnapped while attending a play in Chinatown. A reporter attends another play in Chinatown, is likewise kidnapped and rescues the young woman. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011 in partnership with the National Film Preservation Foundation New Zealand Project.
The lives of Stan Laurel (1890-1965) and Oliver Hardy (1892-1957), on the screen and behind the curtain. The joy and the sadness, the success and the failure. The story of one of the best comic duos of all time: a lesson on how to make people laugh.
A young man fakes his identity to impress a girl.
A man is tormented in his home by a pesky neighbour.