Pick and Shovel
Pick and Shovel, also known as The Miner, is a 1923 silent comedy film starring Stan Laurel.
Genre Comedy
Oranges and Lemons
After getting into a scuffle with his boss and some co-workers, an orange packer tries to help another co-worker, only to wind up in a conflict with him as well. Trying to elude his boss, he heads inside the packing…
Potash and Perlmutter
The film is based on an ethnic Jewish comedy with characters created by Montague Glass and Charles Klein.
Rosita
The King tosses Rosita in jail and when Don Diego, who Rosita loves, tries to defend her, he too is thrown in jail. While Don Diego is sentenced to be executed, the King lusts after Rosita and decides to put…
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…
Three Wise Fools
Sydney Fairchild, the daughter of a woman who was once loved by three bachelors, surprises the men with a visit. Findley, Trumbull, and Gaunt honor their former sweetheart’s last request by becoming Sydney’s guardians.
Giants vs. Yanks
The gang, after a premature end to their baseball game, find themselves quarantined in an elegant home, which they proceed to destroy.
A Man About Town
A feckless young man who wishes to switch from one streetcar to another is told to follow a pretty young lady– so he follows her all over town.
The Pilgrim
The Tramp is an escaped convict who is mistaken as a pastor in a small town church.
Boys to Board
A kindly old schoolteacher helps the gang escape from a cruel boarding school, but they wind up in a bootlegger’s booby-trapped house.
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