An old maid receives a telegram from the administrator of a distant uncle's will, stating that he is shipping her share of the inheritance in a box. When the box arrives, the old maid discovers it contains a full-sized orangoutang, which escapes from the box and causes her no end of trouble.
Believing that an unexpected inheritance will bring them happiness, a married couple instead finds t...
Brenner returns to Graz, the city where he grew up. When confronted with his old friends, his former...
Jean and Bill are a married couple trying to scrape a living. Out of the blue they receive a telegra...
Bill Ramsbottom sells his English pub and drags his family off to Canada where he has inherited a ra...
Principal Gottlieb Taft's twin brother Gotthold Taft partakes in the most recent prank by faking his...
Phil and Lou inherit property left by an eccentric uncle with the provision they occupy the house fo...
Society matron Mrs. Livingston Baldwin Crane is selected as a juror in the trial of former chorus gi...
Action-comedy about a wealthy man who fakes suicide for the amusement of watching his family and cre...
Ismail Yassin and his relatives have to spend a month living in a haunted house in order to collect ...
Philo Beddoe is your regular, easygoing, truck-driving guy. He's also the best bar-room brawler west...
Two obnoxious and dim-witted misfits attempt to save a school for needy children by attempting to sn...
Philo takes part in a bare knuckle fight - as he does - to make some more money than he can earn fro...
Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster's will. The...
Jimmie is seeing his single friends get married one by one. He isn't too worried until his girlfrien...
When Longfellow Deeds, a small-town pizzeria owner and poet, inherits $40 billion from his deceased ...
Having first lost his wife then his job as a tweed tailor, Alex Ponttin has devised a novel way to k...
Mario, a young philanderer, receives 13 antique chairs in a bad state by inheritance and decides to ...
The relatives of a rich old woman unsuccessfully try to have her declared insane, so they can divide...
An unclaimed fortune, grown for centuries in a British bank account, becomes a potential windfall fo...
The town's wealthy benefactor dies, and leaves a bizarre bequest: unless one of the self-righteous c...