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- DirectorMort PeeblesLarry SemonNorman TaurogStarsLarry SemonLucille CarlisleFrank AlexanderA policeman investigates a gang of camouflaged dealers in a restaurant.
- DirectorMort PeeblesLarry SemonNorman TaurogStarsLarry SemonFrank AlexanderLucille CarlisleLarry's the dupe in the school classroom when all the hi jinx are blamed on him. When he falls asleep and dreams his pals are grown up and working on a farm, he doesn't make out much better.
- DirectorLarry SemonNorman TaurogStarsLarry SemonLucille CarlisleFrank AlexanderLarry, the stage hand, invariably is missing when there is work to be done. But when he's missing things run smoothly. Inadvertently, the rug is unrolled, on the stage and he appears, the stage manager loses control of himself and upsets Larry and everything else, including a can of gun powder which he is gallant enough to carry for the leading lady to her dressing room. The stage hand disobeys the rules of the house and lights a cigarette, dropping the match in the string of gunpowder. The explosion eliminates the seat of the stage manager's ample trousers. Striving to change to another pair he rushes into the dressing room of the chorus, from which he is rapidly thrown out - out onto the stage in his checkered lingerie. To escape his retaliation Larry nails the manager down the basement, but opens a stage trap by accident. The primadonna in the midst of her act is precipitated from the stage down into a cask of black paint. Larry seeks safety in the loft from which altitude he manages to ruin all the acts on the bill. When the star calls for artificial fog, he gives him a barrel full of it and wrecks the show. They all strive to get after him, but Larry comes out victor as the picture fades.
- DirectorLarry SemonNorman TaurogStarsLarry SemonLucille CarlisleFrank AlexanderLarry suspects that Millionaire Manybucks has some well defined reason for not wanting him to marry his daughter, inasmuch as the staff of the household has met him with uninterrupted violence. After skidding on his nose down the stone steps Larry realizes that no one, save the girl, craves his company. However, he is determined and braves the house again only to suffer ignominious defeat. A brilliant reception is to be held for the daughter. The Lizard, a polished adventurer, with whom most of the household help are in league, aims to attend and win the girl. At the affair, which is a magnificent spectacle, the girl and her father scorn him. Indignant, he orders his aids to destroy the father, A cigar loaded with T.N.T. is given the father, who does not smoke it, tut tosses it out the window where Larry finds it and has it taken away from him by a policeman. The officers smokes it and it completely disrobes the officer. This failing, the biscuits are laden with explosives and with these and the heiress' playful monkey much havoc is wrought. The villains dash through the house to steal the heiress. The momentum hurls them through the upper windows into a fountain in the garden. The police hold a net for the heroine. Before Larry can follow her the net is removed and he is forced to land on his nose. The major-domo follows him in flight and Larry sees his heiress kidnapped by airplane by the Lizard, He leaps aboard a motorcycle, catches a rope ladder dangling from the aircraft and disables the machine a thousand feet above the ground. The heiress and himself drop to earth in parachutes. The air plane makes a nose dive and is wrecked with the villain, Larry takes the propeller and drives his rival into the ground. He wins the heiress with this last bold stroke.
- DirectorLarry SemonNorman TaurogStarsLarry SemonLucille CarlisleAl ThompsonLarry is a mighty hunter, unafraid of rabbits, canaries and field mice, and also quite unafraid of the hundred-off wives of the Sultan, but he reverts to Semonesque agility when a half dozen lions are let loose in the conservatory.
- DirectorLarry SemonNorman TaurogStarsLarry SemonMarion AyeJack DuffyA small town hick falls in love with a beautiful farmers daughter but her father opposes their marriage.
- DirectorLarry SemonNorman TaurogStarsLarry SemonOliver HardyFrank AlexanderWell-meaning but accident-prone bakery employee Larry is involved in numerous slapstick mishaps on the job. After accidentally causing the bakery owner to fall into a vat of cake batter Larry finds his job in jeopardy, but he redeems himself by foiling a robbery planned by the bakery foreman.
- DirectorLarry SemonNorman TaurogStarsLarry SemonNorma NicholsOliver HardyLarry Semons is sent to collect unpaid rent in a rough neighborhood where "Babe" Hardy as the local boss won't give up easily.
- DirectorLarry SemonNorman TaurogStarsLarry SemonNorma NicholsOliver HardyLarry falls afoul of wanted criminal Gentleman Joe, who runs a saloon full of tough guys and gunslingers.
- DirectorLarry SemonNorman TaurogStarsLarry SemonOliver HardyFrank AlexanderA government official staying in a hotel puts some important secret papers in the hotel safe. A ring of spies out to get the papers manages to steal them from the safe, and a lady government agent enlists the help of the hotel's bumbling bellhop in getting back the papers and breaking up the spy ring.
- DirectorLarry SemonNorman TaurogStarsOliver HardyLarry SemonFrank AlexanderA bumbling sawmill employee tries to win the hand of the owner's daughter while staying out of the clutches of the mill's bullying foreman.
- DirectorLarry SemonNorman TaurogStarsLarry SemonOliver HardyFrank AlexanderA harried propman backstage at a theater must put up with malfunctioning wind machines, roosters that spit nitroglycerine, and a gang planning to rob the theater's payroll.
- DirectorLarry SemonNorman TaurogStarsLarry SemonLucille CarlisleOliver HardyThe king is threatened with a revolution and death, and he abdicates in favor of the dock laborer who has hidden in a box and been smuggled into the palace. The new ruler is too lively for the plotters and after smashing numerous vases over their heads and dumping them into a cistern beneath the palace, he is knighted by the newly crowned queen.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsJohnny FoxEna GregoryBlanche PaysonBecause his modest goat cart can't compete with the village dude's baby automobile, he loses his pretty sweetheart. He encounters the sheriff after stealing some flowers, but manages to lose him by a cunning ruse. How he catches his sister's beau who has robbed a safe, and how his bravery wins back the affections of his girl is the rest of the story.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsJoe RockBillie RhodesFrank AlexanderA tailor employs a dog to tear men's clothes, so as to increase his business. He tries this stunt on a Moorish prince to his sorrow and the feud grows as they both fall in love with the same girl. The Prince lures the tailor into a dungeon where gruesome shapes appear. By rubbing the lamp he escapes only to go through more wild adventures until he wins the girl.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsJoe RobertsA penniless Count travels in society.
- DirectorNorman TaurogThe owner of one of the oldest automobiles in existence, after many mix-ups, collides with a telegraph pole. He is knocked out and dreams that a couple of thieves plan to steal an Egyptian mummy belonging to his sweetheart's father. He takes the place of the real mummy and the resultant complications will bring a good many laughs.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsJoe MurphyFay TincherJack MorganAndy pays five thousand dollars received from Uncle Bim to a real estate shark for a home that belongs to some one else.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsJoe MurphyFay TincherJack MorganAndy, Min and little Chester are getting ready to go to Shady Rest for an outing.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsLige ConleyLillian HackettCliff BowesThe winner of a polo match will get the hand of Maxine, the president of the polo club. Hector, the hero, is in love with Maxine, but what he knows about polo wouldn't get him a diploma.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsJoe MurphyFay TincherJack Morganthe Gump clan, Andy, Bim, Min and Chester, start at a hotel, where dreaming of a seashore, Andy high dives through the floor into the lobby. They drive to the ocean, where Andy does sinks his boat while fishing. Then they go to an amusement park, where a bumper-car mishap casts Andy through the air and into a roller coaster ride.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsCliff BowesVirginia VanceMark JonesCliff is the chief fire-fighter in a force which is notorious for not interfering with fires.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsCliff BowesVirginia VanceLige ConleyCliff is an orderly at a sanitarium and gets into all kinds of scrapes, is fired and returns in disguise to be near his sweetheart, the head nurse.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsCliff BowesVirginia VanceEarl MontgomeryCliff wanted to get into the movies in the worst way and so has become an assistant to the head property man.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsJoe MurphyFay TincherJack MorganPapa, trying to show how Buffalo Bill or Hoot Gibson ride, gets thrown and his horse gets lost. Chester finally locates it in a haystack and brings it back to Andy. They all ride to the George Washington Golf Club (where nobody tells a lie - much). Andy's ball rolls off the tee so Chester affixes it with his chewing gum. Andy drives, but the ball flies back and hits him in the eye. An expert tees off his watch and holes out in one. Andy wants to show Min how good he is and borrows a watch from a man whose wife won it for dancing seven hours in a telephone booth. He, also, holes out in one; but with the watch, having completely missed the ball. The watch is wrecked and the owner has a fit. Later, Andy gets bunkered and takes a dozen strokes, claiming he only took three, the others having been used to kill a rattlesnake. He sees a caddy steal his ball and goes after him. All the other caddies come to their mate's rescue and Andy gets beaten up.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsNeely EdwardsLillian HackettMack SwainA variety of accidents and escapes culminates in a cyclone which produces some ludicrous effects on the buildings, persons and animals in a small Western town.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsJoe MurphyFay TincherJack MorganAndy's boss is constantly harping on the fact that he is no longer a young man and threatens to get a younger man in his place if he doesn't get in on time. This gets Andy thinking and he decides to take a course advertised by a Fanny Fair to make you youthful. Min sees a note from Fanny telling Andy when to come for his first treatment and immediately thinks that her husband is untrue to her. She confides in a neighbor who advises her to get dancing lessons. Andy goes to Fanny's institute and gets an awful deal. When it has been completed he is told to look in the glass and see how young he has been made. What he looks through is merely a frame with a handsome youth on the other side. He mimics Andy's movements so well that Andy really believes he has been remade. On the way home, however, he wants a second look and takes a mirror out of his pocket. What he sees makes him go back and swat the man behind the frame with a brick. When he arrives home he finds his wife in the company of the dancing master and remonstrates with her, demanding to know who he is. Min comes back with the story of the note she found from Fanny. Explanations follow and everyone is happy once more.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsLige ConleyLillian HackettSpencer BellIn a Halloween goods factory, Lige is detailed with the new night watchman to take stock. Lige's rival for the girl's hand is the factory foreman and he conceives the idea of animating the different subjects and scaring Lige to death.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsLige ConleyLillian HackettOtto FriesSuitor has to overcome the pranks of another contending for the same girl.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsLee MoranRuth HiattEdgar KennedyA poor lawyer goes to great lengths to get clients to keep from starving.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsLee MoranRuth HiattJames Parrott
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsLige ConleyIn a football game, the hero naturally saves the day.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsLige ConleyRuth HiattOtto FriesThe hero, Lige, accompanied by his Black valet, land on a desert island and are captured by cannibals who prepare to put them in a stew. A flood of water released to put out a fire in one of the straw huts sweeps them away. With the aid of an alligator, mistaken for a spar, they land on a shore and are received as guests of an oriental potentate in his palace; however, the desire of the ruler for the girl and the opposition of the hero causes the latter with his companion to be thrown in a room where a lion is let loose, and then follows a merry chase and general mix-up which covers the whole palace ending in the hero conquering the lion.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsJoe MurphyFay TincherJack Morgan
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsLige ConleyOtto FriesRuth HiattThe day's takings from a shop are stolen and an employee gives chase to catch the crooks.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsJoe MurphyFay TincherJack MorganAndy goes to Old Timers farm for a rest. He goes in swimming and two goats chew up his clothing. In the meantime a telegram arrives from the neighborhood town asking Andy to come and speak. Min finds Andy in the lake and his clothes gone. He rushes home in Min's petticoat and gets dressed. They race with the train to the crossing, but the train hits them and they find themselves on the fender. They arrive at the station and the whole town is asleep. Andy awakes the people in the hotel and is greeted with a great ovation. The people ask him to make a speech, but he would rather get dressed first and goes upstairs. Little Chester, while playing croquet, hits the ball and breaks open a hornet's nest right over Andy's pants, and the hornets hide themselves in them. Andy slips on his pants while reading over his speech and does not feel the hornets until he has his suspenders over his shoulders. He then starts to run wild all over. He runs into a smokeroom and smokes them out. Andy is asked to deliver his speech and he asks for a stump. Meanwhile, the city is dynamiting all stumps and the one Andy starts to speak on is already charged. The last line of his speech is that his position will take him to dizzy heights and he is blown sky-high and lands on a telephone pole.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsLige ConleyClem BeauchampSpencer BellLige attempts to get into his own room in his father's house without disturbing the family, after staying out until the wee small hours of the morning.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsLige ConleyRuth HiattJack LloydIt is try-out day for motorcycle hill climbing contest to determine the entries in the big cross-country race. The chairman has a big bet on his entry but he fails to qualify in the hill climbing contest when his machine bucks him off. Lige is just a bell boy, but he has big ideas. He does not own a car but a pair of roller skates and a dog furnishes him with speedy. and economical transportation. This morning the dog spies a cat and the things that happen to Lige are full of excitement. He tears through traffic, narrowly escaping collisions and sudden death, finally landing in the hotel and upsetting the guests. Otto, the manager of the hotel, bawls out Lige and sets him to work posting up the bills advertising the big race. After Lige gets the posters on the backs of most of the hotel guests, the manager calls him in and chases him around the lobby. During the chase Lige falls from a balcony on to the seat of a motorcycle on exhibition in the lobby. It starts off and tears down the street out to the course where the tryouts are being held. Lige has never been on a motorcycle before but he manages to hold on and gets to the top of the hill. The chairman sees the stunts Lige does and then hires him to ride in the coming race. Lige refuses, but when Ruth rolls her eyes at him he consents. The day of the big event arrives and Lige's enemy, the hotel manager, is his chief rival. The racers are off in a cloud of dust and they hit a terrific speed. Lige and the hotel manager fight it out at ninety miles per hour but the stunts Lige has to go through to win the race are full of thrills and side-splitting results. Lige wins the race and Ruth tells him he can call around every Wednesday night.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsLige ConleyRuth HiattOtto FriesA country girl is kidnapped by a café owner who forces her to dance for his patrons. Her sweetheart, an amateur correspondence school detective, trails her, and of course in the end rescues her.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsLige ConleyLee MoranCliff BowesWhen Lige, a simple country lad, hears about the bill money movie actors make in Hollywood, there is nothing that can hold him back from a life on the screen so he cranks up the old family flivver and sets out for the land of movie opportunities. Before he has gone very far one of the tires goes flat and he pulls up to a service station to get some free air, but through a mistake he hooks up with a pipe line from tanks filled with helium gas. The tires on his car assume balloon-like proportions and the old flivver takes a notion to ride among the clouds. Lige has a tough time until he discovers the cause of the flivver's antics and then he pries off the tires and comes back to earth. Arriving in Hollywood he hunts up a studio but finds that it is easier to get into the mint than into a modern movie factory. The gateman is so tough that he even keeps his shadow outside and Lige is kicked out so often he feels like a football. Just as he is about to give up, he trades places with an actor and enters the studio where he is promptly beaten up as part of a big mob scene. Lige wanders among the stages and when he gets mixed up with Lloyd Hamilton there are many funny things happen to him. He finally is hired as a property boy and is given a can of powder to distribute on a movie battlefield, but he leaves a trail through the studio and when the powder is touched off it blows up everything in its path. To escape from the angry studio people. Lige takes refuge in an airplane which is to be shot down by anti-aircraft guns. When he gets high enough the guns start and the plane is soon riddled. Lige retains his hold on the wings and soars over his old home into which he drops just as his father is praying for his safe return.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsLige ConleyPhil DunhamEstelle BradleyBusiness is humming at the plant of the "Sink Easy" Ship Company where Lige is assistant foreman. The yard had just completed a ship which is to be turned over to a syndicate of foreign buyers as soon as she is inspected and approved. After many mishaps the ship is accepted and a check is handed the owner of the yards in payment but a wandering breeze carries the precious bit of paper through an open window and Lige starts in pursuit. Back at the shipyards the owner overhears the foreman plotting with some of the men to blow up the ship. The boss plans to nab the men in the act and he sets Lige to help the colored watchmen guard the ship. Lige enters the plant unknown to the watchmen and almost frightens them to death as they have been talking about ghosts. Otto and his pals sneak into the plant and in endeavoring to elude the watchmen back up against a freshly painted lattice work and in the dark they resemble skeletons. When Lige sees them he is sure the place is haunted. Otto and his pals realize that too many queer things are happening about the plant for their comfort and they make haste to plant the dynamite. But in their hurry they drop it and there is an explosion which hurls them through the roof and they drop to the floor with their heads stuck through a plank which holds them and makes them easy prisoners for Lige. The owner arrives and is congratulating Lige upon his bravery in saving the ship and is offering him the hand of his daughter when Lige touches the handle of a trip-hammer and is promptly knocked through the floor.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsLige ConleyEstelle BradleySunshine HartLige Conley appears in a dual role as a fortune-hunting foreign prince and as a Customs Inspector whom he bribes to take his place to elude conspirators who threaten his life.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsJoe MurphyFay TincherJack Morgan
- DirectorStephen RobertsLarry SemonNorman TaurogStarsLarry SemonDorothy DwanMickey McBanThe action opens in a charity bazaar in the heroine's home and her mischievous little brother is responsible for a lot of the comedy. Larry plays a dual role, that of the hero and of a chap who is too fond of his hootch. A couple of conspirators try to steal a secret formula. The crooks steal the formula and escape in an aero. The heroine follows in another machine. Larry climbs a rope ladder and gets aboard. Then follows some cleverly handled scenes in which thrills are mixed with comedy with Larry fighting the crooks and coming near falling from the plane, and the supports and wires give way with him. Of course he wins out.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsLige ConleyJack AckroydBrownie the DogAfter being ejected from his boarding house, Lige gets a job at an automotive school, and there isn't much left of the garage or cars in the neighborhood after he gets through teaching a girl to drive.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsEddie NelsonVirginia VanceBob KortmanThe members of a college fraternity are so anxious to use all the initiation tricks they try them out on the janitor and also a poor boy that is working his way through college as a tailor.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsLige ConleyEstelle BradleyBob KortmanExasperated by his playboy son, a wealthy man sends him to Canada to become a Royal Canadian Mountie, in hopes that the young man will learn something about life.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsLige ConleyEstelle BradleyPhil DunhamThe De Peysters start on a fishing party with a pair of gallant suitors offering their flivvers as a means of conveyance. Eventually they arrive at their destination where Lige's rival attempts to run off with Daisy in a fast motor boat. He is pursued by Lige and the girl's parents and manages to effect a rescue after much discomfort to himself and other members of the party.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsLige ConleyBabe LondonSunshine HartLige, as Props, first has the role of a sandwich man on high stilts, who becomes entangled with autos and motorcycles along the road. Later he handles the props as the show progresses. The act of each entertainer is interrupted by the various devices used backstage and the audience finally leaves the house in disgust.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsLige ConleyEstelle BradleyPhil DunhamLige is a sporting goods salesman in a retail store and is compelled to demonstrate the different devices in the store, which he does to very, poor advantage as an irate boss looks on and threatens repeatedly to fire him. Eventually Lige shows the ladies how to "pin the tail on the donkey." He is blind-folded and walks through an open window to land on a safe being hoisted to an upper floor. A negro, in an effort to rescue him, also winds up on the safe in midair. After a lot of horse-play they are rescued.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsLige ConleyEstelle BradleyBabe LondonLige and his party are cavorting around the beach playing various games when they suddenly decide to visit the roller skating rink. There the announcement has just been made that the champion roller skater of the world will make his appearance that afternoon. Lige, an inexperienced skater, is taken for the champion and the crowd howls when they think his awkward falls are taken purposely. He is compelled to go through a complete program of stunts before it is revealed that he is not the champion. He is then rushed from the rink with the crowd in pursuit when it is announced he has stolen some money. The girl catches up with them and announces she took the money to avoid trouble.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsLige ConleyEstelle BradleyGlen CavenderThe son of the proprietor of a big ice business has just returned from an exploring expedition around the plant in search of a warm spot when his father appears with a friend who manufacturers auto polos. The latter's daughter and her suitor make up the balance of the party. Lige, the ice man's son, is instantly smitten with the daughter of the auto manufacturer and immediately proceeds to show her suitor what a slippery place an ice plant can be. The suitor shows up very badly in the slapstick that follows and the daughter voices the opinion that she would like to have Lige play on her father's team at that afternoon's polo game. This remark does not please the suitor and he asks her for the last time to marry him. On her refusal, he decides to play on the opposite side in order to take out his wrath on Lige. An exciting game follows and after many a tumble and narrow escape from the pursuit of his enemy, Lige emerges a hero and wins the fair lady's hand.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsLloyd HamiltonMarcella DalyDick SutherlandA bill collector working in a tough neighborhood manages to rescue a young socialite from kidnappers.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsLloyd HamiltonDick SutherlandJames T. KelleyLloyd, manager of a lunch wagon at the beach, must contend with his morning commute, difficult customers, and other problems on a day when absolutely everything goes wrong.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsJohnny ArthurVirginia VanceLou ArcherJohnny is a step on-which mean that the family steps on him every chance it gets. His two big brothers bully him incessantly. Johnny has two tickets to the Motorman's Ball and has asked Virginia to accompany him. George, his brother, makes Johnny press his clothes and when Johnny burns them he takes Johnny's only suit-also the ticket and also take Virginia to the ball. Johnny settles down to listen to the radio, but George tell him to keep away from it. When the family is out of the house Johnny defies his brother and places the phone on his ears, listening to a "bedtime story." He falls asleep and dreams a wonderful dream. A fairy appears and with a pass of her wand dresses him in the best fitting clothes. From a pile of tin cans she makes a magic coach-a flivver with footman and driver and they drive to the ball. The fairy remembers he has forgotten something and appears at the ball and warns Johnny that he must be home by midnight for his fine raiment will disappear then. Johnny has a fine time at the ball but it ends in disaster when he is forced to take a picture of the guest. A fight starts and Johnny is victorious in outwitting his enemies but he looks at the clock-and it is two minutes to twelve. He races to his coach and starts for home-but the coach dissolves into a stack of cans beneath his feet. His collar leaves him, his coat flies away, his vest follows and just as he enters the door his trousers leave him. He regains his chair just as the brothers return from the ball. George takes a punch at Johnny for listening to the radio set just as the announcer says "Goodnight, lads and lassies of radioland" - and Johnny echoes-"GOOD NIGHT"
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsLou ArcherPhil DunhamAnita GarvinPhil and Lou inherit property left by an eccentric uncle with the provision they occupy the house for thirty days. They start for the place but encounter some rough roads and have to camp for the night. A black bear wanders near their camp and Lou shoots and wounds a black man by mistake, and they make him part of their traveling party. But their cousin, Anita, wants the property for herself and, with several hired-henchmen, sends weird-form after weird-form through the house after the boys arrive. They attempt to escape by diving into a swimming pool which turns out to be a signboard.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsLloyd HamiltonStanley BlystoneAnita GarvinEgbert Eggleston is a correspondence-school private detective. A gang of crooks rob some local homes and Edbert follows them into the big city and on into Chinatown. To keep from being detected he poses as a Buddah statue, and the incense puts him to sleep. And dreams he is a fairy queen,
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsLloyd HamiltonVirginia VanceStanley BlystoneCharlie has just been notified that he has secured the job of floorwalker at a large new department store. Fortified with confidence he visits the home of Virginia, daughter of the store owner, and proposes marriage. The father says "No!." It doesn't help Charlie's cause any that he breaks the bottle on the owners head at the store christening. Charlie gets put in charge of the one-hour bargain sale. He lives to regret it.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsJohnny ArthurGeorge DavisVirginia VanceJohnny Peppercorn doesn't know the value of money - can't seem to realize that a dollar's worth about thirty cents. He is generally useless until a telegram from his guardian brings a great change in his life. The wire tells him that unless he goes west immediately and spends a year on the Circle-X ranch, where they'll make a man of him, his allowance will be cut off. With the aid of his valet, "Slats," and a correspondence school course. Johnny masters the theory of broncho riding, roping and six-gun play and then departs for the wild and woolly West. The boys of the Circle-X are rather agitated. The foreman has just received a warning from Black Bart, the Terror of the Plains, that he is about to pay the ranch a visit. They are in an anxious mood when they meet Johnny and "Slats" but they place them on ponies and start for the ranch house. The bronchos do their well-known western stuff, depositing Johnny in a watering trough and "Slats" on the hard round. After a few days on the ranch. Johnny overhears the foreman planning to play a joke on him. The cowboy are to kidnap Blossom Steele, to see whether Johnny has any sand. But their plans miscarry and Blossom is kidnapped by Black Bart and his henchmen - and Johnny lets them do it, thinking it is the foreman and his crew playing their joke. When he discovers his mistake he jumps on a horse and after a series of incidents, accidents and coincidence, rescues the girl and captures the bad man.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsLloyd HamiltonHelen FosterGlen CavenderEvicted from his boarding house, a man takes his bed and belongings to the poorer section of a city. It rains but he lets down an awning and has shelter. He shares it with a girl who is unsheltered. It becomes cold and everything freezes. He is telling her of his love and feels a punch in the ribs, and wakes up to find a policeman in front of his boarding house telling him to move along.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsLloyd HamiltonGrace DaltonDick SutherlandLloyd gets to Grace's house just in time to hear her father say he is taking her away on a trip to Europe. Graces asks Lloyd to meet her at the pier to say goodbye. But Lloyd catches the wrong bus to the pier and, before he knows it, has signed up with the U. S. Navy for a four year tour-of-duty. From there it is slapstick and sight gags.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsJohnny ArthurLucille HuttonGeorge DavisHis duties as the bellhop, clerk, office boy, messenger and porter at the local hotel keep Johnny busy, but he still finds time to romance Lucille, the daughter of the proprietor. Lucille also finds time to become fascinated with George, a traveling salesman, while Anita, a vamping vamp from New York City, works her wiles on Johnny.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsLloyd HamiltonBobby BurnsAileen LopezThe hero teaches night school and tries to sleep in the daytime. His parrot has other ideas and keeps him awake with its wise cracks. At school his pupils prove to be men and women of all ages, who shower him with gifts. Among the presents is a loaded cigar, which the teacher puts in his pocket. After having trouble with all the bad boys in the class, dodging paper balls and trying to lecture under difficulties, he gets everything under control by the time the principal, his daughter and the school board visit the classroom. The teacher gives the cigar to the principal in an endeavor to make an impression on him. It explodes and the board leaves in disgust. A dog visits the classroom and when chased out comes back with its friends and relatives. In the chase the schoolroom is wrecked.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsLupino LaneWallace LupinoKathryn McGuireA star-struck fan of a film star botches his chance to meet her with a wardrobe malfunction. But, did Lester give up so easily? He sneaks onto the movie studio to try and make amends--which does not go exactly as planned.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsLupino LaneWallace LupinoKathryn McGuireSociety is more or less agog over the expected arrival of the Duke. His visit will be the crowning event of the social, season. Kathryn is particularly excited about his arrival, for her home will be the first that the titled guest will visit. Wallace, a jealous suitor for her hand, isn't at all pleased with the amount of attention the Duke is getting before his arrival. He knows that when his royal Nibs lands and meets Kathryn, his chances for her hand will go glimmering. On his way to the boat to meet the Duke, Wallace encounters Nip, a newsboy, who is trying to avoid a detective whom he has antagonized. Wallace is struck with the resemblance between the newsboy and the published pictures of the expected guest. He thinks quickly and hits upon a plan. When the Duke arrives, Wallace shows him to a hotel room. Wallace then gets Nip, dresses him in the Duke's clothes and, after locking the Duke in his room, takes Nip to Kathryn's home, expecting that through his lack of manners, he will disgust Kathryn with royalty. Nip is introduced as the Duke and then the fun starts. Although Nip hasn't much of the royal manner and his parlor etiquette is somewhat rough, he manages to make a big hit with Kathryn. Just when he is getting along in fine style, after nearly wrecking the dinner table with a vivid description of his daring deeds, he finds the detective on his trail. The newsboy tries to elude the officer and is nearly successful where the real Duke appears on the scene. Then things begin to happen rapidly: The sleuth, thinking he is the newsie, starts after the real Duke, When he thinks he has him down and out, the newsboy disguised as the Duke walks in. The officer gets dizzy trying to follow the two men, and all the time he thinks it is the same person. Even Kathryn is fooled, kissing first the pretender and then the real Duke to the astonishment of both, Finally, everything is explained to everybody's satisfaction. But Kathryn finds that she prefers Nip, the newsboy, to his Royal Nibs.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsLupino LaneKathryn McGuireWallace LupinoA well-dressed hobo gets a job as "utility man" with a theater company, and winds up starring in the show.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsLloyd HamiltonEstelle BradleyBob KortmanLloyd is just a private in the big army of the unemployed. But he is trying. He will try anything once, and if he isn't thrown out, he'll try it again. He gets a job as an electrician's helper. Now our hero knows just about as much about electricity as the ancient Egyptians knew about the Charleston. But, as said before, he is willing to learn. He is taken out on his first job after an apprenticeship in the store. Luckily nothing more serious happened in the store than the breaking of a gross of bulbs and turning on the "juice" in an electric gridiron just when the boss had his hand on it. But those are little things. At the house where Estelle lives and where he is trying to make a big hit, he makes his first serious blunder. He connects a line carrying high voltage -22,000 of them-into the house circuit and then things begin to happen. First, the electric sweeper creates such a vacuum that things disappear right in front of him. Then the radio swells up and bursts. But when the piano begins to play and all the strings and keys jump out, that is the last straw. The boss knows something is wrong and orders Lloyd to the cellar to inspect the meter. Lloyd tinkers with the meter until he short-circuits it and then there is a big explosion which leaves nothing of the house standing except the doorway. Lloyd then knows he has made a slight error somewhere, so after courteously bidding the owner a pleasant good-day, he bows his way out of the door and is on his way, once more a private in the army of jobless.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsJohnny ArthurKathryn McGuireWallace LupinoA dim witted, scrawny fellow from the country finds college full of bullies that trick him into various painful situations with the dean. His wife mistakes him for a prize athlete, and he's put on the football team. The big game includes unusual things like a mud hole on the field and a wasp nest substituting for the ball.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsLloyd HamiltonEstelle BradleyAl ThompsonA man hired by a penny-pinching wealthy family to fulfill multiple roles for the family causes chaos at each task he is given.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsLloyd HamiltonEstelle BradleyFred SpencerLloyd is a detective in a private firm of crime hounds. Business is very slack until the firm gets a peculiar sort of case. At the house of old Bixby, a millionaire, mysterious messages have been received from a criminal signing himself "Scarface." These predict the disappearance of a valuable diamond necklace, worn by Betty, his daughter. The note names midnight as the hour the necklace will vanish. Bixby communicates with the detective agency, and Lloyd and the manager come out to the house to protect the valuables and capture the crook. They station the occupants of the house at points of vantage and wait for something to happen. They are warned that whoever the flashlight falls on shall die. They do not have to wait long, for doors begin to open and close, and mysterious noises are heard. Lloyd is scared stiff but tries to catch the crook, although the fateful light falls on him. Scarface adopts the disguise of a huge gorilla and terrorizes the entire household. He glides from room to room, through walls, trapdoors and secret exits, completely mystifying the watching detectives or frightening them out of their wits. The chase leads to the cellar. Lloyd is left there alone while boxes and barrels move around the gloomy place. Finally he thinks he has captured the crook-but it is only his partner. The gas light in the cellar is blown out and the gas escapes. Lloyd asks for a match to light the gas and when the match is struck the house blows up, the explosion landing the two detectives and the crook on the branch of a tree. Lloyd slips the handcuffs on the crook just before the bough breaks.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsLloyd HamiltonEstelle BradleyGlen CavenderAt Glen's home, his father and mother have just received a wire saying that Glen, their son, was married the night before and he is hurrying home with his bride. Father wires him to hurry home and get $50,000 as a wedding present. Glen receives the wire but he can't remember getting married. He has been on a big party and he recalled very few events of the evening. But to get the $50,000 he has to produce a wife. He asks his roommate, Lloyd, to find one for him. But Lloyd fails to locate a suitable one after an exhaustive search, and returns home disgusted. Glen tells Lloyd he will have to dress as the wife. Lloyd is fitted out in female attire, and they set out for the home of Glen's father. When they arrive, the family immediately takes to the new bride. Estelle, the pretty daughter, makes quite a fuss over the bogus wife. Father, a frisky old gent, also gets smitten with the bride and makes himself a general nuisance. Henry, the son, becomes jealous and tries to take out his spite on the bride. Lloyd is annoyed by these attentions and plays some rough game with the men. Henry decides the bride has a wooden leg. He and father plan to find out if this is true by using needles. But their trick recoils on them, and the fake bride is greatly upset. Everything is finally straightened out satisfactorily when Lloyd takes off his wig and tells Estelle he is a man.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsPoodles HannefordLucille HuttonBull Montana"Poodles" is the hard working assistant to the village blacksmith and everything he does goes wrong. As the blacksmith shop is filled with hot irons, heavy hammers and hard anvils, every time "Poodles" makes an error, somebody is due to get hurt. And it is usually Glen, the husky blacksmith, who is on the receiving end. Lucille, daughter of the village's rich man, is in love with "Poodles." She has a tough time trying to convince father and mother that "Poodles" is all right, for one of "Poodles'" mistakes result in father getting under a falling bale of hay. And when "Poodles" tries to help mother on her horse and throws her over it, he also drops in her estimation. The blacksmith is also a prize fighter and has issued a challenge to a finish fight with Slaughter-House Slattery. Slattery arrives in town and hunts up the blacksmith. When Glen sees Slattery his feet get so cold that his grandmother suffers from chilblains. Glen refuses to fight Slattery, pleading that he is sick. Lucille conceives the bright idea of having "Poodles" substitute for the battling blacksmith. "Poodles" refuses, but when Lucille's father tells him that he has bet all of his money against Slattery, "Poodles" agrees to battle his tough opponent. "Poodles" knows nothing about fighting but he is bright enough to wear a suit of armor into the ring and it almost wrecks Slattery's hands before the fighter discovers the deception. Then "Poodles" is in for a tough evening and it gets tougher as the battle goes along. But "Poodles" wins the fight through strategy and by knocking Slattery through the roof. Lucille and "Poodles" are very happy for Dad has saved his money. Dad gives his consent to the match.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsDorothy DevoreAl ThompsonStanley BlystoneDorothy's father, an inventor, has just perfected a new type of airplane and is anxious to have Stanley, a captain of aviation, inspect and test it. Stanley is Dorothy's sweetheart, and Glen, also an aviator, is his rival. Dorothy, her father, Glen and Stanley start for the aviation field, with the chauffeur driving. On the way they get into all kinds of trouble with the car, finally being forced to abandon it and to proceed on foot. Dorothy and her father catch a motor-bus to the field after many ludicrous efforts. At the field, the plane is inspected and Stanley is to drive it. Before he can take his place in it, Glen slips into the cockpit and starts the ship. While Dorothy is christening the plane, it takes off. She is caught in some of the rope and the plane soars aloft with the girl dangling from the wing. Stanley and her father see Dorothy's predicament and they commandeer another plane and start in pursuit. Frank, the chauffeur, is caught in another rope and he is also carried aloft. Dorothy manages to climb up the rope and then she recognizes Glen in the plane. Glen is trying to kidnap her and attempts to force his attentions on her. He chases Dorothy out on one of the wings of the ship, but Dorothy pulls the release string of his parachute and Glen is dragged off the plane. Meanwhile, the plane with her father, Stanley and Frank, is circling overhead. Frank drops to Dorothy's plane and they try to get to the other ship. Finally, both of them jump, but Dorothy goes through the floor of the other plane and falls earthward while Frank lands astride the fuselage. Stanley jumps over after her and catches her, and they both float safely to earth in his parachute.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsDorothy DevoreAl ThompsonHenry MurdockFrances Campbell is a poor girl scrubbing the floors of an office building for a living. Her little brother and her dog help her with her work. She is fired from her job in the office building when she mops the owner's face instead of his floors. Just as she is leaving the building she is stopped by a lawyer and presented with a letter from an uncle in Scotland whom she has never seen and who has never seen her. The letter states that if Francis Campbell is a boy, he will make him his heir. Frances starts for Scotland and arrives at the castle of her uncle, clad in a funny pair of kilts and wearing a mustache in order to make her uncle believe that she is a boy. The uncle receives her with open arms, but Glen, a nephew, is not so well pleased. He knows he will lose the fortune if this newcomer stays. He plots with the butler to scare her from the house. That night all kinds of strange noises are heard. Frances leaves her room and is soon seized by a pair of bony hands and almost frightened out of her kilts. Weird shapes float through the halls, frightening everybody almost to death. Frances, her brother and her dog flee from room to room, but the ghostly figures still pursue her. Her uncle and his secretary hear the noise and come to see what it is all about. Glen and his henchmen try to frighten them also and they are almost paralyzed from fear. When Glen sees that he cannot frighten Francis and her brother from the house, he tries to drown them out with a hose. But Frances turns the trick on them, and they are washed out of the house. Her uncle congratulates her and when he finds that she is a girl, he forgives her and makes her his heiress.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsLloyd HamiltonHenry MurdockAl ThompsonLloyd is skipping along bound nowhere in particular when a gust of wind blows his hat off and Lloyd stages a big game hunt right in the midst of traffic. He finds the hat just in time to see it destroyed. He goes into a shop to buy another headpiece. The clerk is one of those fellows who is always trying, but he hasn't any more idea of the kind of hat Lloyd wants than he has of the size of the polar ice cap. Lloyd tries on hunting hats, riding hats, slouch hats, derbies and helmets. He tries everything from a hat big enough for a hippo down to one too small for a worm. He finally finds one that looks alright up on a shelf but the clerk pulls the shelf and all over trying to get it. Lloyd picks a hat from the wreckage and pays the bill. No sooner is he out the door than the hat is knocked off and crushed by a street-car. Another hat is purchased and this one is smashed by a truck. A small boy with a Pogo stick accounts for the third. He gets a fourth and decides to have the pleasure of throwing that one away himself. But it comes back to him. Then he shows the trick to a policeman and finally decides to duplicate it with the policeman's cap. But the cap lands in a fire and Lloyd hastily gives him his last hat and walks away. Then Lloyd gets a job in a beauty parlor where elderly maids are made into new chickens and double chins are lifted without the aid of an elevator. Lloyd furnishes a gentleman with an egg shampoo but the eggs have passed their youthfulness, and the customer is indignant. Then he steers a heavyweight gent into a steam room when it is his wife who wants a beauty bath. Lloyd carelessly targets how long the man has been steaming. and when his patron comes out, he has melted down to the size of a midget. It's a great life. but it looks to Lloyd as though he should be getting along to a safer neighborhood. So he quits the beauty shop while he is able to go unharmed.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsDorothy DevoreAl ThompsonBabe London
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsLloyd HamiltonGlen CavenderAl Thompson"Ham", an effeminate man-child who skips around chasing butterflies with a net, is forced to go on a camping trip to "make a man out of him".
- DirectorNorman TaurogCharles C. WilsonStarsGeorge JesselGwen LeeRichard TuckerA young Jewish man works in his father's jewelry business, but he doesn't like it at all--he wants to be an entertainer, something he knows that his father would never approve of. He comes up with a scheme to put on his own show in a theater and show his father that he can be a success, but things don't work out quite as well as he planned.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsMonte CollinsJack MillerLucille Hutton
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsDorothy DevoreEarl McCarthyKathryn McGuireIt is Dorothy's wedding day and the bride, the groom and all the wedding guests are gathered in the church. Earl is lucky man and he has most unwisely chosen for his best man, Glen, his defeated rival in love. There is a hint of trouble during the ceremony, and it appears with a gusto when the couple leaves the church. Glen has employed a strong man to hurl rice at the pair, the rice being in the form of pudding still in the pan. The couple get into a car to drive away. Glen has tied it to a truck and when they start, their auto is pulled to pieces. They finally get started in another car. Earl is so occupied with his newly acquired wife that he fails to see where he is going and runs into a police station where he is fined every cent in his pockets. On foot, they start for their new home. Before they get there, Dorothy's gown is ruined. Arriving at last, they find a telegram waiting for them. It is from the Earl's rich uncle informing him that he is on his way to visit him, and that if he finds him still single he will settle his fortune on the young man. Naturally, Earle is upset having just become a husband. And to make matters worse, the door bell rings soon after they get home, and they look out and find uncle waiting for them to open the door. Dorothy slips into the clothes of a little girl, pretending to be the neighbor's child. She impersonates the child all too well and has the uncle half crazy with her pranks before he is thoroughly convinced that she is just a child. But Glen, the disgruntled lover, appears on the scene and Dorothy is nearly exposed. She uses her wits, and gets even with him until her wig comes off. When the uncle sees how he has been deceived he is furious. But finally he sees the humor of the situation and forgives the newlyweds and promises Earl his share of his fortune.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsLloyd HamiltonEdna GregoryStanley BlystoneA three-some is waiting at the first tee for another player in order to complete their four-some when who comes into sight but our hero. He is carrying a golf bag and one club, but he eagerly accept their invitation to join the game. Lloyd tees up and take a swing at the ball with a strange looking club. It opens into an umbrella and carries him off the tee. His newly-found friends furnish him with another club and he scoops out a divot as large as a door mat. The next swing is a complete miss and one of his friend hands him a huge club. Lloyd's shot hits Dr. Frank, the keeper of a private sanitarium-a polite word for insane asylum. On the second tee, Lloyd again smacks the ball down the fairway and again it hits the doctor. All through the game he hits the doctor until this individual is mad enough to kill him. At the finish of the game Lloyd's gentlemen friends are met by a chauffeur who tell them that their car b waiting. They ask Lloyd to visit them at their home. Lloyd gets into the car and is driven to the sanitarium-;- He does not know that his new friends are a bunch of nuts that the squirrels have overlooked. In the sanitarium, Lloyd is surprised at the behavior of some of the people he finds there until he discovers that they are all lunatics. A beautiful girl begs him to help her escape and makes her plea very forcible by kicking Lloyd every time his back is turned. Doctor Frank is in charge. The doctor orders Lloyd into a straitjacket but a mouse runs into it and Lloyd tears the jacket to pieces. Then he meets a man with a wonderful invention-a self propelled airship which works ok for him, but which lands Lloyd in a heap outside the walls of the asylum.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsLloyd HamiltonLucille HuttonKewpie MorganCompeting taxi drivers vie for fares and stoop to devious and destructive methods. They also have rival football teams and play an outrageous, stop-at-nothing match that includes improbable vehicles and animals getting in the game.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsJohnny ArthurLucille HuttonJack Miller
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsDorothy DevoreWallace LupinoBabe London
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsJohnny Arthur
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsLloyd HamiltonLucille HuttonKewpie MorganThe burly proprietor of the Business Man's Gymnasium and Cafe is in a hole. Among all his strong-arm pupils there isn't a soda mixer in the lot and the patronage of the soda fountain is suffering. He hangs out a "man wanted" sign and awaits results. A knock comes on the door and in walks an old lady. With her is her son Lloyd, who applies for the job as soda-jerker. He is accepted, dons his apron and starts mixing the drinks. As a soda-counter man, Lloyd is a total loss with no insurance. He tries to copy the artful style of his fellow workers at the fountain but only succeeds in spilling the drinks all over the place. He has little better luck serving the food orders. A patron orders a stuffed tomato and Lloyd, watching his co-worker tries it himself. He stuffs it with everything behind the counter until it is stretched all out of shape. When the customer sticks it with his fork, it explodes in his face. For this Lloyd is taken from behind the counter and set to work in the gymnasium as an instructor. He tries to teach the class a lesson in Indian.club work but makes a mistake with his orders and the entire class is knocked out. When he tries to show them how to perform on the flying rings, he puts them all into a state of horror by his healthy swings which carry him out of the window high over the city below. The proprietor comes in just in time to see Lloyd do something more foolish than ordinary. He gets sore and tells Lloyd that he is going to give him boxing lessons. On the floor above a lady is taking exercise and jumps up and down. Her weight dislodges one of the globes on the light in the ceiling below, just above the head of the gymnasium proprietor. Just as Lloyd swings, the globe hits the proprietor on the head, knocking him out on his feet. Other globes fall until the burly instructor is completely out, and Lloyd is hailed as the gym champion.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsLloyd HamiltonJack MillerAl Thompson
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsBobby ClarkPaul McCulloughGavin Gordon
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsBobby ClarkPaul McCulloughHelen Bolton
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsBobby ClarkPaul McCulloughGavin Gordon
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsBobby ClarkPaul McCulloughSally Phipps
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsWillie West and McGintySlapstick comics Willie West and McGinty cause havoc at a construction site as they attempt to "work."
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsLillian RothAt a lake gathering with friends, Lillian patiently awaits the arrival of Jimmy, her drippy collegiate boyfriend.