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Stan Laurel solo, playing doubles
Feb 1925
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.
Aug 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
Ton of Fun out in the desert with a mule and a lady.
Apr 1926
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
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
A fire inspector discovers that his father, an industrialist, is secretly producing nitroglycerin at his warehouse.
Oct 1930
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.
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
Stan Laurel plays a Chinese laundryman and he displays some good physical slapstick reminiscent of his days with the Karno troupe in England.
Aug 1924
It's the first day back at school for Mickey and the gang, which means plenty of pain for the schoolteacher. But things really heat up when a fire breaks out in the schoolhouse.
Feb 1928
The second short from the "Mickey McGuire" film series. The series was based on Fontaine Fox's popular comic strip "Toonerville Trolley". "Mickey McGuire" was a popular rival to Hal Roach's Our Gang series. Perhaps the most notable note about the series is that it launched Mickey Rooney's film career. The film follows Mickey McGuire (Rooney) and his pals as they start a "Pet Xchange".
Oct 1927
A new batch of immigrants arrives.
Apr 1929
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
A.K.A. "Mickey's Brigade". Mickey and the gang try to become explorers, "like Columbus and all them guys".
A bantamweight boxer has moved to Toonerville with his sissy-looking but well-trained son. When he gets into a dispute with Mickey Maguire, nothing will settle the matter but a meeting in the squared ring.
Dec 1927
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
In order to pay back Stinky Davis, Mickey becomes an organ grinder, and later put on a minstrel show.
Jan 1934
Mickey and the gang play a game of football against Stinky Davis.
Nov 1927