Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman officer Messala as conqueror and Judah as a wealthy, though conquered, Israelite. A slip of…

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

Firefighter Charlie Chaplin is tricked into letting a house burn by an owner who wants to collect on the insurance.

An impecunious customer creates chaos in a department store while the manager and his assistant plot to steal the money kept in the establishment’s safe.

A shipowner intends to scuttle his ship on its last voyage to get the insurance money. Charlie, a tramp in love with the owner’s daughter, is grabbed by the captain…

Mother, father and daughter go to the park. The women doze off on a bench while the father plays a hide-and-seek game with a girl, blindfolded. Charlie leads him into…

Charlie and his boss have difficulties just getting to the house they are going to wallpaper. The householder is angry because he can’t get breakfast and his wife is screaming…