Comedy Movies

During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnny Gray’s beloved locomotive, ‘The General’—with Johnnie’s lady love aboard an attached boxcar—and he single-handedly must do all in his power to…

A salesman is helped out of a jam with an angry customer by a wealthy playboy. In return, he agrees to help the playboy get a divorce from his wife,…

A 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…

Two rich capitalists want to marry their children, but they don’t like the idea at all. She tries to run away, and meets him at the station. They fall in…

A meek millionaire masquerades as a boxing star to win a girl’s heart.

Paul and Suzanne Giraud are happily married and living in a quiet neighborhood. When Suzanne notices that their new neighbors are expressive dancers in revealing outfits, she demands Paul speak…

A divorced couple try to pretend they are still happily married in order to get $100,000 from the woman’s divorce-disapproving aunt.

To impress the girl he loves, a naive country boy tries to capture a group of local bootleggers.

Honey Skinner is proud of her successful husband. When he tells her he’s going to ask for a raise, she knows he’ll get it. He asks his boss just as…

Beverly Calhoun impersonates the Prince of Graustark to claim his birthright while he recovers from a skiing injury. In the meantime, she falls for her bodyguard Dantan.

A masked criminal who dresses like a giant bat terrorizes the guests at an old house rented by a mystery writer.

A recent college graduate (Billy West) inherits a large sum of money, as well as a dive on the rough side of town. The will states that, in the event…

On the night before his wedding, a young man plays poker with friends. When the game is raided by the police, he escapes into a Turkish bath on ladies night,…

A young man shows his millionaire grandfather a film based on Molière’s play “Tartuffe” in order to expose the old man’s hypocritical governess who covets the young man’s inheritance.

A young Soviet woman struggles to cope in a society obsessed with chess.

Daydreaming waitress Jennie Hagen fantasizes about becoming a famous actress, while in reality she and her cook boyfriend, Orme Wilson, hope to one day own their own diner. Although Orme…

Vladimir Dubrouvsky, a lieutenant in the Russian army, catches the eye of Czarina Catherine II. He spurns her advances and flees, and she puts out a warrant for his arrest,…

With little luck at keeping a job in the city a New Yorker tries work in the country and eventually finds his way leading a herd of cattle to the…

A feisty little girl, the daughter of a beat cop, faces the challenges of growing up in a tough city neighborhood. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partnership with…

A bully browbeats his wife and children until he meets his match in the woman who raised him.

Harold Lamb is so excited about going to college that he has been working to earn spending money, practicing college yells, and learning a special way of introducing himself that…

Nanette sends a letter to her family telling of her new husband, Hillory. When Hillory arrives to meet the family, he gets insulted by each member, including the dog, and…

A gold prospector in Alaska struggles to survive the elements and win the heart of a dance hall girl.

Two thieves discover a professional and personal relationship when individual heist plans are thrown together by circumstance.

Struggling stockbroker Jimmie Shannon learns that, if he gets married by 7 p.m. on his 27th birthday — which is today — he’ll inherit $7 million from an eccentric relative.

A farm girl learns she is a princess and is swept away by a tornado to the land of Oz.

Stan plays a kind hearted tramp whose love goes un-requited in this sweet short film from 1925.

Wanting his son to get away from his many girlfriends and buckle down to work, the New York industrialist father of a playboy sends him to an obscure village in…

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…

Avery DuPoys is a wealthy businessman, organising a race. He meets one of the competitors of the race, who is in love with DuPoys’s daughter. Another competitor crashes into the…

The wealthy and impulsive Rollo Treadway decides to propose to his beautiful socialite neighbor, Betsy O’Brien. Although Betsy turns Rollo down, he still opts to go on the cruise that…

Lord Harrowby takes out an $100,000 insurance policy to be paid if his wedding to Cecilia Meyrick is cancelled. The insurance company sends Dick Minot to make sure the wedding…

Comedy which concerns the struggles of an ambitious department store sales clerk who is caught up in New York high society.

The new teacher is brutally terrorized by the pupils and becomes the laughingstock of town. Then dramatic events occur which give him a chance for redemption.

A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend’s father’s pocketwatch.

The likeable and carefree Grand Duke of Abacco is in dire straits. There is no money left to service the State’s debt; the main creditor is looking forward to expropriating…

A young man falls for a young woman on his trip home; unbeknownst to him, her family has vowed to kill every member of his family.

Zaza is an actress and the favorite at an open-air theater in a small French town. When diplomat Bernard Dufresne comes to the village, he stays away for fear he…

The rituals of courtship, romantic rivalry, and love play out three times as a man vies with a villain for the girl. In the Stone Age, the rivalry is set…

When a store clerk organizes a contest to climb the outside of a tall building, circumstances force him to make the perilous climb himself.