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- DirectorRoy MackStarsEdward LankowRoger DavisJoyzelle JoynerA bored sultan threatens to chop off his jester's head unless the jester and his performers can entertain him.
- DirectorEdward BerndsStarsHarry von ZellRalf HaroldeCharles C. WilsonHarry, who is known as a practical joker, finds himself being chased by a headhunter, and doesn't know if it's a joke or not.
- DirectorMurray RothStarsHorace HeidtLobo
- DirectorArthur RipleyStarsW.C. FieldsMarjorie KaneElise CavannaA henpecked but stoic pharmacist tries to maintains his precarious balance while dealing with demanding customers and his dysfunctional family.
- DirectorRalph CederStarsCharley ChaseBlanche MehaffeyNoah YoungChase appears as a small town cub reporter of the rather "dumber" sort who indulges in some April Fool jokes with results disastrous to himself. A good burlesque on the suspicion with which most people regard their neighbors on the day when every sort of practical joke is adjudged legitimate. About every time-honored practical joke is shown - the placing of tacks on chairs, the rubber hammer and the imitation ink spot.
- DirectorJames ParrottStarsCharley ChaseBeth DarlingtonEarl MohanJimmy Jump is a coward. Everyone and everything makes him afraid. He cowers from the neighborhood children, even though he's old enough to be their father. He is terrified of Lem Tucker, who is his rival for the heart of Dorothy. Only when he mistakenly believes he is about to die does Jimmy find courage. But will it last?
- DirectorLeo McCareyStarsCharley ChaseMartha SleeperEvelyn BurnsJimmy returns from college and works at his father's iron foundry and helps his mom with a charity event. He goes to a tough dance hall to impress his girl, where he mistaken for a notorious gangster.
- DirectorLeo McCareyStarsCharley ChaseKatherine GrantGeorge SiegmannCharley's boss is stepping out with an ex-con's wife, so he asks Charley to do him a solid and take her to the cabin before her husband finds out. His wife sees them en-route and believes he is cheating on her. Follow that car.
- DirectorLeo McCareyStarsCharley ChaseOliver HardyGladys HuletteCharley needs $10,000 right away. Mrs. Schwartzkopple has inherited $2 million from her late husband and wants to marry a younger man. Mr. Blaylock, her attorney, sees a way to solve both their problems, and keep control of her $2 million.
- DirectorLeo McCareyStarsCharley ChaseOliver HardyCorliss PalmerA young man puts on the play "Romeo and Juliet" as a fundraiser, but has to keep a close eye on his dad, who's had several drinks too many, and a pesky cab driver who's determined to collect his fare.
- DirectorLeo McCareyStarsCharley ChaseStuart HolmesMildred JuneCharley is afraid of dogs, and one chases him into a phone box, which a stuffy aristocrat has just left to get more change, to continue the phone call with his fiancée, who is being forced by her parents to marry him. Charley agrees to help the girl, and is mistakenly hired as a butler at the same house. That evening, there's a big party at the house, and he has to find out which of the 20 girls there is the right one. The moment, he finds her, he gets the order to bathe the Duke, her dog, but he thinks she's talking about the future son-in-law... Meanwhile, the father, fed up with the aggressive dog, gives another domestic the order to get rid of the dog at midnight, when he hears him howling like a dog, the dog will be thrown by him out of the window. The aristocratic fiancée is in reality a crook, and is going to throw the safe out of the window, his partner in crime shall be prepared, when he hears him howling like a dog at midnight. Charley tells the girl that he will be ready for her eloping at midnight and the signal is him howling like a dog...
- DirectorLeo McCareyStarsCharley ChaseKatherine GrantWalter JamesA hard boiled business man wants his daughter to marry for wealth, and not for love. Charley comes into the office seeking a job, and gets confused with an old geezer there as a prospective groom. Both show up at the business man's home later, where a scramble around the house has Charley trying to hide his boss's liquor from prohibition cops.
- DirectorLeo McCareyStarsCharley ChaseFred KelseyKatherine GrantCharlie Chase, Katherine Grant and Bull Montana aspire to be society crooks. As their first job they decide to nab the Kadir brooch which they read has been given from Mrs. Van Courtland to her daughter. The three start out for the Van Courtland home and collide with an auto carrying the Metropolitan Trio, who are to entertain at a party at the Van Courtland home. The crooks persuade them the party has been called off and proceed to the party, announcing themselves as the performers. They do steal the brooch, but reform before the final fade out.
- DirectorLeo McCareyStarsCharley ChaseKatherine GrantJane ShermanDespite his faithfulness, Melvin is always under suspicion by wife Mame. Complications erupt when a woman from a party across the hall passes out in Melvin's bedroom just before Mame returns.
- DirectorLeo McCareyStarsCharley ChaseOliver HardyKatherine GrantCharley is plagued with failure and with his brother-in-law, who's allergic to labor. When he decides to take the family on a camping trip, his wife learns about a contest sponsored by a pen company, with the first prize being an ocean trip. To win the prize Charley has to sell those pens - surprisingly he wins, but the ship turns out to be a wreck on it's last trip to the scrapyard. To make things worse they accidentally leave their young daughter on the dock and the ship sails without her. What else can go wrong on this trip?
- DirectorEdward BurnsStarsEdward BurnsCaitlin FitzGeraldKerry BishéNewlyweds Buzzy and Katie find their blissful life disrupted by the arrival of his half-sister and news of her sister's marriage troubles.
- DirectorLeo McCareyStarsCharley ChaseKatherine GrantLucien LittlefieldA wife suspects her husband is cheating when seen on the street talking to an attractive young woman. She believes she has caught him his mistress. A dancing butler, a game-playing dog and an accommodating burglar complicate things.
- DirectorLeo McCareyStarsCharley ChaseOliver HardyMartha SleeperA princess must find a husband in 24 hours or forfeit her throne. She quickly marries a condemned man--but the man is pardoned.
- DirectorLeo McCareyStarsCharley ChaseVivien OaklandAnn HoweAfter a homely married couple separately undergo plastic surgery, they unwittingly plan an extramarital affair with each other.
- DirectorLeo McCareyStarsCharley ChaseClara GuiolJohn M. O'BrienA widow has married rich, but didn't tell her husband about her son. And he's coming for a surprise visit. To hide his identity he is introduced as the husband's new valet, but still the husband has some doubts about a few strange scenes. And during the night, when the son tries to visit his mother, the husband always starts interfering, but the new maid also behaves strangely, trying to sneak into the husband's room...
- DirectorDel LordStarsCharley ChaseAnn DoranJohn T. MurrayCharley mistakes a lunatic as the father of the girl he's interested in.
- DirectorDel LordStarsCharley ChasePeggy StratfordNina QuarteroCharley's wife accuses him of preferring his Hoot Owl Lodge over her.
- DirectorDel LordStarsCharley ChasePeggy StratfordBud JamisonCharley's honeymoon is upset by a woman and her jealous husband.
- DirectorDel LordStarsCharley ChasePeggy StratfordBud JamisonCharley's honeymoon is upset by a woman and her jealous husband.
- DirectorCharles LamontStarsCharley ChasePeggy StratfordJohn T. MurrayCharley tries to get out of an arranged marriage so he can marry another girl. What he doesn't realize is that they are one and same girl.
- DirectorNick CogleyStarsCharley ChaseFritz SchadeFontaine La Rue
- DirectorCharles LamontStarsCharley ChaseLucille LundJohn T. MurrayCharley is a hypochondriac who is driving his family, his friends and his doctor crazy.
- DirectorNick CogleyFrancis J. GrandonFrank GriffinStarsCharley ChaseMae BuschFritz SchadeA conman snakes his way into the good graces of a young woman's wealthy parents - but he comes to regret his life's choices when he gets between her and her true love.
- DirectorDel LordStarsCharley ChaseAnn DoranDick CurtisCharley Chase is engaged to be married and while in a department store, shopping for his fiancée, saves a woman from being hit on the head by a heavy box, but his fiancée only sees a newspaper-published picture of Charley holding the girl in his lap. His angry fiancée breaks off their engagement. The girl is the wife of a notorious gangster who lives in the same apartment building as Charley, and the heart-broken and despondent Charley asks the gangster to bump him off. But he no longer wants to be bumped off after his fiancée finds out what really happened and forgives him. Since the gangster is a very honorable guy indeed and believes a contract is a contract, Charley is in his usual dilemma.
- DirectorJules WhiteStarsCharley ChaseJames C. MortonEva McKenzieA criminology professor sets out to find the "sleepwalking bandit", but when he finally catches up with the somnambulistic thief, it's not quite who he thought it would be.
- DirectorDel LordStarsCharley ChaseAnn DoranJohn TyrrellCharley falls for a waitress who mistakes him for a gangster.
- DirectorDel LordStarsCharley ChaseRichard FiskeRuth SkinnerCharley arrives in a backward mountain town to be the new schoolteacher and receives a hostile welcome.
- DirectorFrank GriffinStarsCharley ChaseMae BuschFritz SchadeTwo couples are at the seaside. A young man proposes to his gal. She accepts, and promptly tells him to re-tie his tie. He objects, so she returns the ring and walks away. An older couple has their own squabble: the middle-aged husband, who thinks himself a dandy, is happy to see his complaining wife roll away in a small, unattended carriage. He immediately approaches the younger woman. To make her ex-fiancé jealous, she takes up with the dandy and off they go to swim. What of the wife and the jilted beau? Can things be set right?
- DirectorFrank GriffinStarsCharley ChaseMae BuschFrank Opperman
- DirectorAlfred J. GouldingStarsRoscoe 'Fatty' ArbuckleBilly HayesJack ShuttaFatty tries to keep a child from being taken to the Orphan Asylum after being orphaned by his mother only to end up unwittingly in that same Asylum.
- DirectorAlfred J. GouldingStarsRoscoe 'Fatty' ArbuckleAl St. JohnDan ColemanFatty invents a liquid with a property that makes objects resilient and unbreakable. Unfortunately, in his rush to get out of the house to demonstrate his invention, he unknowingly grabs a jar of hard cider instead of the jar which holds his wonder liquid. To make matters worse, as he drives to the demonstration, a football-sized beehive falls from a tree onto the cargo bed of his truck.
- DirectorAlfred J. GouldingStarsRoscoe 'Fatty' ArbuckleMildred Van DornFritz HubertDimwitted grocers Abner & Willie attend a wedding dinner and accidentally serve the guests Mexican jumping beans.
- DirectorRay McCareyStarsRoscoe 'Fatty' ArbuckleHarry ShannonCharles JudelsYoung Wilbur Wart gets a letter from a man who may be his rich uncle. It seems the uncle is dying and looking for heirs to leave his fortune to. On his way to his uncle's place, he gets into a fight with a man who turns out to be his long-lost cousin Harry, who is also on his way to the uncle's. Wilbur and Harry both plot to screw the other out of the inheritance, but it turns out that there may be more to the uncle than there seems to be.
- DirectorRay McCareyStarsRoscoe 'Fatty' ArbuckleDan ColemanEthel DavisSlim starts his first day of work at a bakery on the same day that local gangsters pay a visit to his boss demanding protection money. When the boss refuses to pay, the gangsters hatch a plan to destr0y the bakery, but the plan doesn't quite work out the way they thought it would.
- DirectorCharley ChaseStarsRosemary ThebyOliver HardyCharley Chase
- DirectorJ.A. HoweStarsCharley ChaseBlanche MehaffeyLyle TayoWhile Jimmy Jump is having a shine, he sees a girl struggling to put the top of her convertible. He helps her and they make a date for dinner, and exchange calling cards. Jimmy tells his boss, who fits him up with clothes and money. Jimmy leaves him the girl's card, and when Jimmy's boss sees his fiancee's name on the card, complications ensue, but he learns at last that Jimmy's "date" is his girl's maid and there are wedding bells for four.
- DirectorScott PembrokeStarsCharley ChaseBlanche MehaffeyBilly EngleJimmy Jump is hired as chauffeur by a lady who wishes to make her husband jealous. The lady gets him various costumes and takes him around wherever her husband will see them. The husband objects and Jimmy is rescued by Patricia, the maid. She takes him home to the amusement of her family, but everything ends happily.
- DirectorJames ParrottStarsCharley ChaseBlanche MehaffeyNoah YoungCharley Chase plays Jimmy Jump, an automobile salesman, who is about to be married when his boss orders him to show the Mayor a car. Jimmy leaves the girl on the corner for just a minute, but the minute is so long that the girl has married another man when he comes back. The Mayor goes to a picnic in the car but does not buy it, so Jimmy loses his job and is out of luck all around.
- DirectorJames ParrottStarsCharley ChaseBlanche MehaffeyEddie BakerChase plays a traveling lightening rod salesman who gets caught up in a real estate transaction gone wrong.
- DirectorRay McCareyStarsRoscoe 'Fatty' ArbuckleCharles JudelsFritz HubertFatty travels to a third world country and deals with a grouchy dictator; released months after Fatty Arbuckle's death.
- DirectorLeo McCareyStarsCharley ChaseBeth DarlingtonEddie BakerJimmy Jump's young wife goes in strongly for amateur theatricals. After one of her performances a theater manager signs her up. He opens a publicity campaign by having her appear in public in spectacular costumes, with a monkey for a pet. The monkey gets away and Jimmy is elected to capture it. When peace once more descends upon them, the young wife decides to give up her career and devote her time to Jimmy.
- DirectorLeo McCareyStarsCharley ChaseEmma TanseyMarie MosquiniJimmy always fantasied about racing. But now he has to pay the mortgage before noon or else he won't own his shop any longer.
- DirectorLeo McCareyStarsCharley ChaseJames J. JeffriesEna GregoryChase's Jimmy Jump character needs toughening so his dad sends him to the farm of former champion Jim Jeffries where he does comic exercises. We see his later home life where he is still intimidated by his now wife.
- DirectorLeo McCareyStarsCharley ChaseEna GregoryNoah YoungJimmy prints up business cards that give his job description as "bouncer," which intimidates everyone--until he runs out of cards.
- DirectorLeo McCareyStarsCharley ChaseKatherine GrantMartha SleeperJimmy vies for the honor of taking Nellie home from the dance and wins. But Nellie forgot her key, so Jimmy takes measures into his own hands to get her safely home.
- DirectorLeo McCareyStarsCharley ChaseBeth DarlingtonJack GavinJimmy Jump (Charley Chase) wakes up late for his wedding so he ends up leaving the house dressed in his pajamas and then encounters one disaster after another.
- DirectorLeo McCareyStarsCharley ChaseBeth DarlingtonLeo WillisWhen Charlie borrows the policeman's uniform of his girl's father and captures a lunatic, his prospective father-in-law dons the uniform just in time to receive the reward of $1,000.
- DirectorLeo McCareyStarsCharley ChaseMartha SleeperBeth DarlingtonJimmy (Charley Chase) must help his boss hide an affair with a beautiful woman and try to keep his own girlfriend happy.
- DirectorLeo McCareyStarsCharley ChaseBeth DarlingtonSammy BrooksCharley, frustrated by his office job, quarrels with his wife, after which they decide to switch jobs. She goes to the office and Charley does the housework. Having never done something like this in his life before, he starts a chaos, something his mother-in-law was expecting...
- DirectorLeo McCareyStarsCharley ChaseMarie MosquiniPierre CoudercCharley is a bashful clerk in love with the boss' daughter. Accidentally partaking of gin that has been dumped into an old water cooler to hide it, he becomes a scrapper, ready to lick everyone in sight, and of course ends by getting the girl even though gasoline vapors have sobered him and restored him to his bashful self.
- DirectorLeo McCareyStarsCharley ChaseMartha SleeperSammy BrooksProfessor James Jump hopes to strike it rich with his invention of a more humane mouse trap.
- DirectorLeo McCareyStarsCharley ChaseKatherine GrantAl HallettA baby is left on Mr. and Mrs. Chase's doorstep. They are both happy about this - until hours later when the baby wont' stop crying. Charley goes out into the night to try and find the local doctor, with mixed results.
- DirectorLeo McCareyStarsCharley ChaseKatherine GrantEvelyn BurnsChase tries to impress his wife's family by being more like his rich brother-in-law.
- DirectorLeo McCareyStarsCharley ChaseMartha SleeperHelen GilmoreJimmy is asked by the Swedish Government to translate for educational purpose "Little Red Riding Hood", but he can't afford to buy the book, so he tries reading it at the book shop, something the owner doesn't like. But with a little help by the owner's wife it is not impossible, even when the book is bought by somebody else, put in a car and the car is stolen...
- DirectorLeo McCareyStarsCharley ChaseKatherine GrantNoah YoungJimmie Jump is returning from Europe to the USA. His parents and Sally, an old girlfriend he hasn't seen in years, are expecting him at the dock, but because of unfortunate circumstance, they are mistaken about each other's identities but meet not knowing this. Jimmie decides that he must find that girl. Finally, after annoying a policeman and much of the female population, he finds her working as a temperance worker. To get her attention, he dresses in rags to meet her, but his way of introduction causes more confusion.
- DirectorLeo McCareyStarsCharley ChaseKatherine GrantMickey BennettCharley's battle-axe mother-in-law breaks up his marriage and tries to separate him from his son. Charlie abducts the boy for a father-son outing to the beach. The mother-in-law pursues and comedy ensues.
- DirectorCharley ChaseStarsBilly WestStanton HeckEthelyn GibsonBilly is mistaken for a dangerous Bolshevik, and thrown into jail.
- DirectorCharley ChaseStarsHarry MannJimmie AdamsLeo White
- DirectorCharley ChaseStars'Snub' PollardMarie MosquiniCharles StevensonThe owners of a movie studio are having problems with a temperamental director, and they promise an actor on one of his pictures that he can have the job if he can find a way to make the director leave the picture.
- DirectorRay GreyStarsJames ParrottErnest MorrisonEthel BroadhurstAn umbrella salesman decides to help a lady in distress raise $500, so she, and her father, will not be blown up.
- DirectorCharley ChaseStars'Snub' PollardMarie MosquiniJames FinlaysonWhen Papa tells son Malcolm the story of the first Thanksgiving, Malcolm imagines the tale with his father in the role of "John Alldone" and his mother as "Prisilly."
- DirectorCharley ChaseStarsWill RogersMarie MosquiniNoah YoungJubilo is a hobo whose whole time is taken up in dodging work and trying to get a square meal.
- DirectorRoy MackStarsGus ShyJanet ReadeBert FrohmanAfter a birthday drink, Paul Revere Watson steals a policeman's horse and dreams of himself in Colonial times as the original Revere.
- DirectorFelix E. FeistStarsRita OehmenJohn HubbardBenny RubinFor some unknown reason, the sale of waffle irons has plummeted, equally and negatively affecting family owned and operated Four Square and Magic Circle, two of the leading waffle iron companies. What could be both companies' saving grace is that their respective presidents, Richard Wright and Evelyn Foster, are in love with each other, with their personal merger in terms of a marriage resulting in a planned business merger of the two companies. What neither anticipates is what ends up being a sticking point in the business merger which could be a deal breaker for their marriage happening: he is not willing to give up the square design and she is not willing to give up the circular design, each which is synonymous with their particular brand for generations, for the merged companies' combination waffle iron. What happens in both their professional and personal mergers is affected by he unexpectedly assuming "ownership" of a Hindu magi, Prince Chris Manusha, who has special powers.
- DirectorJoseph BarberaWilliam HannaStarsWilliam HannaHarry LangBob LaztnyTom (Jasper) gets told that if he breaks one more thing he is getting thrown out, so Jerry (Jinx) tries his best to make Jasper "Get the Boot".
- DirectorRay McCareyStarsJack HaleyShemp HowardCharles JudelsTwo screw-ups join the Navy and make life miserable for their supervisor.
- DirectorHal RoachStarsHarold LloydMildred DavisNoah YoungBlase eastern boy is shipped off to a ranch in the 'wild west ' by his father.
- DirectorDel LordStarsCharley ChaseIris MeredithBud JamisonCharley writes to girls all over the world in order to get foreign postage stamps for his collection--but winds up with a passel of girls who think he's their fiance.