It’s a Gift
A group of oil magnates are trying to think of new ways to attract business. One of them suggests that they contact the inventor Pollard, who has devised a new gasoline substitute. Pollard himself lives in a home filled with…
Genre Comedy
Souls for Sale
A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.
Sunny Gym
A Herman C. Raymaker film directed by , released in 1923.
The Big Show
The gang creates its own makeshift county fair, highlighted by a “movie,” which is really a clever stage performance.
The Cobbler
A cobbler receives his back pension and invites the gang to celebrate with a picnic, but his car stalls along the way.
Kill or Cure
Laurel portrays a commercial traveller, hawking a patent medicine cried Professor I.O. Dine’s Knox-All: that name is the funniest joke in this movie, which ain’t sayin’ much. I should point out that this movie dates from 1923, the shank of…
The Gown Shop
Here we have ‘The Gown Shop’, very much in Semon’s usual style but with fewer laughs than usual. Semon plays his default character, a grotesque hard-working incompetent. (I’m going to be using the word ‘grotesque’ a lot in this particular…
The Midnight Cabaret
The Midnight Cabaret is a short 1923 American comedy starring Larry Semon and featuring Oliver Hardy.
Horseshoes
A boxer offers $50 to anyone who can stay in the ring with him for an entire minute. Larry, through a series of mix-ups–including hitting the boxer in the face with a tomato–winds up in the ring with him but,…
Bell Boy 13
Harry Elrod takes a job as a bellboy when he is disinherited by his uncle and fails in his efforts to elope with actress Kitty Clyde. He causes so much confusion that Uncle Elrod buys the hotel so that he…
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