D-Comedy

At age 40, silent comic Harry Langdon parlayed his man-child persona into a string of hit Mack Sennett comedies. Working with writers Frank Capra a...

At age 40, silent comic Harry Langdon parlayed his man-child persona into a string of hit Mack Sennett comedies. Working with writers Frank Capra a...

Struggling small-town realtor Henry Elkins (Stuart Erwin) stubbornly refuses to sell off valuable property that has been in his family for generati...

A beautiful and prestigious doctor, Hedy Fredericks (Ruth Hussey), returns to her hometown en route to Chicago and gets detoured by handsome Air Fo...

Cartoon characters Barney Google and Snuffy Smith are brought to life and dispatched to aid the war effort in this film adaptation of the classic c...

Private Snuffy Smith (1942, B&W): Straight from the long-running newspaper comic-strip, "Barney Google and Snuffy Smith," comes this riotous wa...

World-famous artist Priam Farrell (Roland Young) is a dead ringer for his devoted valet, Henry Leek. When Leek suddenly takes ill and dies, a mix-u...

Silent screen star Gloria Swanson "speaks" in ace director Leo McCarey's sharp and sophisticated pre-code romantic comedy, Indiscreet (also release...

Meek lingerie salesman Johnny Dill escapes the mire of the Great Depression in seedy speakeasies. Night after night, lonesome Dill grows frustrated...

On a drunken Mardi Gras binge, Clarice Kendall marries millionaire Stephen Cormack. The only trouble is that she is already married. Paula Kendall ...

Lloyd Hamilton, one of the greatest funnymen of the silent era, makes the jump to talkies in this collection of rare two-reelers from the 1930s. Ha...

A SMALL TOWN IDOL (1921): Ben returns home a Hollywood hero to attend the debut of his new smash Western at the Bijou. Stars Ben Turpin, Phyllis Ha...

The Stage Hand (1933): The little town of Oskaloosa is presenting a community play to raise money for a new fire engine but, as a title card indica...

RISKS AND ROUGHNECKS (1917): Larry Semon displays some surprising athletic prowess as an avid reader of pulp novels who gets to act the hero when h...

Nearly Married (1920): After his wealthy father disinherits him, a socialite sets sail for New York to meet his bride-to-be -- only to find that a ...

Returning veteran Johnny Gray (Franchot Tone) is about to be married when a pretty British woman, Amy Atkins (Ann Richards), shows up at his doorst...

A joyous high-society wedding turns sour when one of the attendees, notorious ladies man Donald Ransome, steals a string of expensive pearls from t...

Lum (Chester Lauck) courts spinster Geraldine (ZaSu Pitts) in the second installment of the popular Lum and Abner series. The chaste lovebirds fill...

As limber as Harold Lloyd yet as lovable as Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, Lupino Lane (1892-1959) was born Henry William George Lupino in Lond...

As limber as Harold Lloyd yet as lovable as Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, Lupino Lane (1892-1959) was born Henry William George Lupino in Lond...

Producer-director-actor Mack Sennett, the screen's original King of Comedy, is well represented in this quartet of silent-era short subjects with m...

A One Night Stand (1915, Silent, B&W): The backstage buffoonery of two stagehands nearly ruins the evening's performance. Starring Chester Conk...

This collection presents four classic shorts from the "King of Comedy," Mack Sennett. The comedies demonstrate Sennett's evolution from a purveyor ...

In 1912, producer Mack Sennett, "the father of American slapstick comedy," set up his Keystone Studios in Edendale, California. There he created th...