Slapstick Comedy Movies

A 1915 Victoria Forde comedy. As Lizzie (Forde) has a beautiful voice, everybody in her tiny hometown encourage her to try a career in show business...

A young man falls in love with his mother's kitchen maid, Mabel. But his mother objects strongly, and arranges for him to meet another young woman...

A hapless nitwit sets up his living space in the middle of a street, then moves to a police station, then gets a job in a movie studio, with...

Swindlers con a lunchroom clerk into doing them a favor, supposedly on behalf of the FBI.

In Bangkok, a katoey (transvestite), Payak, is on his way to a wedding accompanied by his "girlfriend" Auntie Bell and other katoeys. But on the way...

The crew of PT-73 get into trouble when they back the wrong horse in a race. Now they have to come up with a way to raise the money to pay off the...

A year prior to the first scene, Stan married Ollie's sister, and Ollie married Stan's sister in a double wedding. They all live together and Stan...

An impecunious customer creates chaos in a department store while the manager and his assistant plot to steal the money kept in the establishment's...

A slapstick fantasy of the amorous adventures of a magician a la Cantinflas.

Homemaker Lucy Whittaker calls up President Carter to complain about a local political issue—and to her astonishment, he agrees to come dine at...

At the Killjoy Cafe, "everything is first class except the food and the service."

When British Capt. Charles Edstaston arrives at the court of Catherine the Great in St. Petersburg, Russia, he is stunned by the palace's disorderly...

The troubles of a movie projectionist in a newly-purchased theater are chronicled in this two-reeler starring Paul Parrot and Mildred June.

A tailor's apprentice burns Count Broko's clothes while ironing them and the tailor fires him. Later, the tailor discovers a note explaining that the...

When an escaped circus gorilla appears to have gone on a murderous rampage, a threatened attorney calls on the detective trio of Garrity, Harrigan...

A dancing instructor goes to a married woman's home, to giver her lessons, while her husband is absent. He leaves and goes to a poker game. The...

When he has to pay a debt to a fearsome money lender, a man accepts the help of a friend who takes him to a scientist where he can sell his body, but...

This short film takes a nostalgic look at the Mack Sennett comedies of the silent cinema era.

The girlfriends of softball players decide to form their own team as a way of avenging their neglect.

A compilation of clips from 19 Abbott & Costello features: The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap, In the Navy, Hit the Ice, Who Done It?, Abbott and...