Comedy Movies

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.

In an attempt to forget his lost sweetheart, Buster takes a long trip at the sea when he’s caught by pirates.

Buster and Phyllis endure a number of outdoor adventures trying to prove to each other their survival skills. The balloon, which lands Buster in the wilderness, later proves useful as…

In order to impress the father of a girl he is keen on, a young man goes to the city in search of work. In his letters home he writes…

Country doctor Jack Jackson is called in to treat the Sick-Little-Well-Girl, who has been making Dr. Saulsbourg and his sanitarium very rich after years of unsuccessful treatment.

Rhubarb Vaselino lives in a small village, when he and his friend, Sapo, enter a bullfighting contest, Sapo dies, but Rhubarb kills three bulls and becomes a local hero earning…

Botany major Buster mistakenly graduates in electrical engineering and is hired to wire a new home.

This satirical parody of William S. Hart’s melodramatic films finds Buster in the frozen north, “last stop on the subway.” He uses a wanted poster as his partner in robbing…

In this movie, Max Linder parodies the famous novel “The Three Musketeers”.

Buster clowns around in a blacksmith’s shop until he and the smithy get in a fight which sends the smithy to jail. Buster helps several customers with horses, then destroys…

Buster and a woman are mistakenly married and her initially unfriendly family begins to treat him nicely when they come to believe he has a large inheritance awaiting him.

A bricklayer and his wife clash over his end-of-the-week partying.

A harried propman backstage at a theater must put up with malfunctioning wind machines, roosters that spit nitroglycerine, and a gang planning to rob the theater’s payroll.

Buster Keaton gets involved in a series of misunderstandings involving a horse and cart. Eventually he infuriates every cop in the city when he accidentally interrupts a police parade.

A butterfly collector unwittingly wanders into an Indian encampment while chasing a butterfly, but the tribe has resolved to kill the first white man who enters their encampment because white…

A bumbling sawmill employee tries to win the hand of the owner’s daughter while staying out of the clutches of the mill’s bullying foreman.

A boat builder and his family attempt to set sail in his handmade boat, ‘The Damfino’.

The frothy experiences of a vain little flapper. Her father induces an actor friend to become a gentlemanly cave man and the film becomes another variation of the ‘Taming of…