Fire Away

Nominally about attempts to steal a gold mine, the movie starts out with the air of a realistic comedy, then immediately descends into a series of perfectly timed gags which made me goggle at their improbability — not the sort…

Nominally about attempts to steal a gold mine, the movie starts out with the air of a realistic comedy, then immediately descends into a series of perfectly timed gags which made me goggle at their improbability — not the sort…

Austin Starfield has his greedy eye on a steel mill belonging to Eve Burnside. He persuades an impoverished count, Leon Molnar to marry Eve so he can then gain control of her fortune.

Eve’s Secret is that she’s not the elegant society woman she seems to be. In fact, Eve is an unkempt country girl who’s been “transformed,” Pygmalion style, by European duke Poltava.

A serious young man and his emotional wife become acquainted with a frivolous young man and his serious minded wife, and it is not long before like attracts like, to the discomfiture of all. The four agree to an exchange…

FIDDLIN AROUND’ (1925) (Starring Babe Hardy).

Charley Chase plays the type of character he does best, which is a weak nerd who is constantly letting people push him around. This happens at his work when a co-worker sneaks off with the boss’s daughter who just happens…

The owner of a London clothing store is driven out of business, but later makes a triumphant return.

This comedy-melodrama focuses on Marmaduke Grandon (Franklin Farnum), who’s a drug store clerk with aspirations to be a movie star.

Ann, a 19-year-old girl who looks much younger, meets a dashing army major on a boat sailing from Liverpool to Bombay, India, and falls in love with him. Her love appears to be unrequited, though, because the major thinks she…

The boys are showing off their dogs to each other when little rich girl Mary Kornman rides by in her pony-drawn cart. When the pony shies and runs away, Mickey comes to the rescue with his dog. In gratitude, Mary…