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Stan Laurel solo, playing doubles
Feb 1925
Barney Google is returning to Kokomo with his menage: race horse Spark Plug, trainer-jockey Sunshine, and ostrich Rudy. The people turn out to greet him -- the race horse, that is, and Sunshine. Feelings about Google are less kind, and soon the four of them are on a train headed elsewhere, causing havoc to passengers and crew.
Sep 1928
A fire inspector discovers that his father, an industrialist, is secretly producing nitroglycerin at his warehouse.
Oct 1930
King Ferdinand of Sodonje (King Ferdinand Saronoff) is threatened with an attack. When a tourist who resembles him shows up at the palace, the king suggests that they switch clothes with each other. The fake king signs a document, and thereby signs his own death sentence. He manages to avoid the firing squad just in time, and asks for his own clothes back, but the real king refuses.
Feb 1926
Laurel plays Winchell McSweeney, whose fisherman parents forced him to leave home and make it on his own when they can no longer afford to keep supporting him. He takes a boat out of the village, but accidentally sets the ship on fire when he attempts to take a photograph of the passengers. The women end up on the island with McSweeney, and is constantly pursued by them, including one Amazon-size girl.
Aug 1925
A new batch of immigrants arrives.
Apr 1929
A 'Ton of Fun' slapstick comedy from the heaviest trio Hollywood has ever produced!
Sep 1925
Stan plays a kind hearted tramp whose love goes un-requited in this sweet short film from 1925.
Jan 1925
The unhappily married couple head to divorce court where Toots tells a series of funny stories about Casper.
Jan 1929
Mickey Rooney -- credited as McGuire, as he would be through the run of the series -- inducts a new member into the gang, tries to put little brother Billy Barty to bed for a nap, and wins a basketball game against Stinky Davis' team in this episode of the series.
Apr 1930
Toots and Casper comedy.
Mar 1929
Ton of Fun out in the desert with a mule and a lady.
Apr 1926
Stan travels to the small town of Hot Dog to collect an inheritance. He learns his late uncle left him everything - but in the event of Stan's death it all goes to his two outlaw cousins.
Dec 1924
Jimmy Aubrey plays a book agent and on his rounds of selling is induced to substitute for a local fistic star. His adventures in the prize ring furnish a great deal of comedy.
Two former WWI aces from opposite sides, Bill Ramsey and Otto Shumann, in the best tradition of Eddie Rickenbacker and the Red Baron, barnstorm their way across the Poverty Row skies of middle-America while competing for daredevil honors and the favors of the lovely Eve.
Dec 1931
A group of young actresses reminisces about their days as part of a gang of kids, headed by Mickey McGuire. Their memories take the form of clips from episodes of the long running Mickey McGuire series of short comedies.
Apr 1945
Jul 1933
Barney Hellum and Slim Summerville give policeman Kit Guard a rough time in this funny Barney Google short, which is based on the comic strip character.
Feb 1929
Mickey and the gang put on their own circus, but Stinky Davis and his pals constantly try to disrupt it.
Oct 1933
Mickey and the gang go prospecting, but find themselves in a haunted house.
Nov 1933