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Browse 46 movies from Standard Photoplay Company
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
When a convict forcibly changes places with our hero Stan, he's taken to the pokey in the prisoner's place. Run-ins with pies, pickaxes, and the electric chair follow. Will the warden find Stan innocent or presume him guilty?
Oct 1924
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 boarding house maid is treated mean, until inheriting oil gives her a new gleam.
Oct 1930
Stan is a detective who essentially relies on different costumes to successfully complete his investigations
Jun 1925
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
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
The unhappily married couple head to divorce court where Toots tells a series of funny stories about Casper.
Jan 1929
Toots and Casper comedy.
Mar 1929
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
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
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
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
Mickey and the gang decide to make their own movie. Guest starring Hannah Washington (a poor man's Farina of the 1920's).
FBO "Barney Google" short.with horses and ostriches.
Nov 1928
A gang of racketeers, with the aid of a high-ranking city official has control of a big-city, and the police plant an undercover cop to gather evidence against the hoodlums - except the police keep telling the wrong person what they are up to.
May 1931
Mickey McGuire is putting on a bad performance of Uncle Tom's Cabin, but first he has to deal with the competition; another boy is putting on a wild animal show -- house cats inflamed by the "tamer" having white mice in his trousers.
Apr 1928
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