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Posted On: February 20, 2010Posted In: Comedy, Movies, Short
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Charlie escapes from prison. After rescuing a girl and her mother from drowning, Charlie is invited to their home where a big party is held and he is treated like a hero. However, as a result Charlie’s photo is printed in the newspapers and the prison guards come after him.
Comedy | Short
Charlie Chaplin’s “The Fireman” (1916)
Charlie is a fireman who always does everything wrong. A man talks the Fire Chief into ignoring his burning home (he wants the insurance money) unaware that his daughter (the love of the Chief) is upstairs in the house. When the house next door catches fire its owner rouses Charlie who rouses the force. Short [...]
Neighbors (1920)
The Romeo and Juliet story played out in a tenement neighborhood with Buster and Virginia’s families hating each other over the fence separating their buildings. Short | Comedy | Romance Buster Keaton … The Boy Virginia Fox … The Girl Joe Roberts … Her Father Joe Keaton … His Father
Charlie Chaplin’s “His Prehistoric Past” (1914)
Charlie dreams he is in the stone age. There King Low-Brow rules a harem of wives. Charlie, in skins and a bowler, falls in love with the king’s favorite wife, Sum-Babee. During a hunting trip the king is pushed over a cliff. Charlie proclaims himself king, but Ku-Ku discovers the real king alive. They return [...]
Charlie Chaplin’s “His Trysting Place” (1914)
Charlie’s wife sends him to the store for a baby bottle with milk. Elsewhere, Ambrose offers to post a love letter for a woman in his boarding house. The two men meet at a restaurant and each takes the other’s coat by mistake. Charlie’s wife thinks he has a lover; Ambrose’s believes he has an [...]
My Wifes Relations (1922)
A large woman brings Buster to court, wrongly accusing him of smashing a window. But the judge is an immigrant who only understands Polish. He mistakes Buster and the woman for another couple and marries them to one another. The large woman brings her new husband to her home, where Buster is confronted with her [...]
Mud and Sand (1922)
‘Mud and Sand’ is a satire on the Rudolph Valentino Classic Blood and Sand.. Stan Laurel plays the Bullfighter (Rubharb Vaseline) who wants to make it to the top and win back the girl. Comedy | Short | Adventure | Family Stan Laurel … Rhubarb Vaselino
Great Mike, The (1944)
Story of a boy and his horse. Mike is the horse and is owned by Speck (Carl “Alfalfa” Switzer) and his best friend Jimmy (Rober “Buzz” Henry), together they have a paper route, on which they deliver papers to customers via a wagon pulled by Mike. Recenlty a horse track has been built in the [...]
The Frozen North (1922)
This satirical parody of William S. Hart’s melodramatic films 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 [...]
Ghost Parade (1931)
When Mr. Martin and everyone else in Mosby Manor hears strange noises during the night, they fear that it might be the ghost of Martin’s uncle, who died in the Civil War. But the next day, the local constable investigates, and he finds mice in the attic who are making the odd sounds by crawling [...]
