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Browse 37 movies from Joseph M. Schenck Productions
A series of misadventures occur when Buster is mistaken for a criminal on the lam.
May 1921
Two farmhands compete for the love of the farmer's daughter.
Nov 1920
A young man falls for a young woman on his trip home; unbeknownst to him, her family has vowed to kill every member of his family.
Nov 1923
Barbara Winslow helps her rebel brother, Rupert, escape from the king's forces by disguising herself as him. Captain Prothero captures her, but he has fallen for Barbara's charms so he lets her go. As a result they are both arrested and imprisoned.
Buster Keaton gets involved in a series of misunderstandings involving a horse and cart. Eventually he infuriates every cop in the city when he accidentally interrupts a police parade.
Mar 1922
Show girl Jill Deverne is married to song writer Fred Deverne, and everyone is involved in the Broadway night life and endless parties. Jill is being pursued by a gangster, and she leaves her husband after he spends the night with a floozie. Jill ends up as the gangster's moll, but she soon gets tired of the lifestyle.
Dec 1929
A princess is forced to choose between a charming tutor and a rakish prince.
Apr 1930
A down on his luck young man makes several attempts at committing suicide but fails them too. He then finds himself becoming more confident through a series of petty adventures, to such an extent that this becomes his undoing.
Mar 1921
Newlyweds receive a build-it-yourself house as a wedding gift—and the house can, supposedly, be built in "one week". A rejected suitor secretly re-numbers packing crates, and the husband struggles to assemble the house according to this new 'arrangement' of its parts.
Aug 1920
A vaudeville and nightclub performer becomes successful and forgets who his friends really are.
Feb 1930
A young woman jeopardizes the relationship with the man she loves when a no-account from her past shows up.
Apr 1931
Sundered lovers meet again amid tragic irony at a mining camp in northern Norway.
Sep 1930
Stephen Sorrell, a decorated war hero, raises his son Kit alone after Kit's mother deserts husband and child in the boy's infancy. Sorrell loses a promising job offer and is forced to take work as a menial. Both his dignity and his health are damaged as he suffers under the exhausting labor and harsh treatment he receives as a hotel porter. But Sorrell thrives in the knowledge that his son will benefit from his labors. Sorrell has allowed the boy to believe his mother dead, but when the mother shows up, wanting to re-enter the young man's life, Sorrell must make hard decisions. Preserved and restored by the Academy Film Archive in 2004.
Dec 1927
An investigative reporter romances a suspected smuggler's daughter.
May 1933
The Romeo and Juliet story played out in a tenement neighborhood with Buster and Virginia's families hating each other over the fence separating their buildings.
Dec 1920
When Mary Turner is sent to prison for a crime she did not commit, she vows upon her release to take vengeance on those who wronged her, always staying however within the letter of the law.
Apr 1923
During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnny Gray's beloved locomotive, 'The General'—with Johnnie's lady love aboard an attached boxcar—and he single-handedly must do all in his power to both get The General back and to rescue Annabelle.
Dec 1926
A diverse group of individuals struggle to survive in the Kalahari desert after their passenger plane crashes.
Nov 1965
A bookish college student dismissive of athletics is compelled to try out sports to win the affection of the girl he loves.
Sep 1927
Helen has a twin sister, who is a famous actress named "La Perry". Helen and her sister decide to trick Helen's husband to prove his love.
Aug 1925