After five years as the best of the Chaplin imitators, Billy West struck out with his own comedy character, a middle-class man in a nice suit and a fedora -- but with the mustache. These movies involved him in cartoonish situations in which he executed some extended gags very nicely -- in this one he does the one in which the water pump only works when he's not ready for it and another in which he can't catch a fish with some expensive gear, while the boy next to him catches whoppers with a stick and a bent pin -- and gradually moved behind the camera.
In an attempt at greater efficiency, the chef and waiter of a fancy oceanside restaurant wreak havoc...
Insecure Beatrice Ridley lets her jealousy of her husband get the better of her when he begins recei...
A young author, Everett Dryden Hale, has written a book of such strength and originality that it bec...
Claire Curtis, Jimmie Strong and Mary have spent their childhood together in the country. Upon reach...
A young girl, Rose Eastmen lives with her lazy Uncle, who works as a janitor in a publishing house. ...
A cautionary tale for aspiring flappers. Five of six reels survive.
Neil McRae, an impoverished composer, loves Cynthia Mason, but, fearing poverty, proposes to wealthy...
Betsy Harlow is a hard-working maid in a boarding house. Her dream. however, is to be a detective, a...
In Bagdad, Princess Badr al-Budur, the daughter of the Sultan, falls in love with Aladdin, the son o...
Jerry Martin quits his dull job as a bank clerk and falls in with a band of hobos. He takes on the g...
Eve Orrin is at the mercy of her possessive mother, who has a case of "nerves" every time her daught...
The story of two feuding Irish immigrant families living in a tenement.