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- An employee at a commercial laundry mistakenly thinks he's Chinese. Complications ensue.
- In Victorian London the esteemed Dr. Pyckle uses himself as a guinea pig when he experiments with a new drug that changes him into a compulsive prankster.
- Chester Conklin portrays the role of an amateur sleuth on the search of bootleggers. He is made to assist, rather than to hinder, the lawbreakers, and the wind-up of the comedy is a surprise as the reel Sherlock turns out to be none other than Alice Ardell herself.
- On his way to collect inheritance in the small town on Hot Dog, Stan gets robbed by highwaymen, one of which is the other person who shall attend the reading of their late Uncle's will. The reading of the will states Stan will get everything, including 'The Last Chance Saloon', but in the case of Stan's death, the saloon will be split between Bad Mike and his friend. Stan nows flees town, but gets on Bad Mike's horse, which takes him to Bad Mike's house. Bad Mike and his gang arrive at the house, after robbing the saloon. They soon hear Stan, and an epic gun battle follows, with the town Sheriff not far behind.
- 3:00 AM at the Firewater Club, and Stanley is drunk. When he tries to conducting the orchestra, the manager - a former boxer - tells him to cool down. But Stanley then he then tries to dance with the manager's wife. Big mistake.
- A trio of overweight and incompetent carpenters are hired by a young woman to build a house.
- Stan Laurel is a man who is robbed of his civilian clothing by an escaped prisoner, who then dresses Stan in the striped uniform. Naturally, since it's Stan, a guard nabs him and locks him in the pokey.
- The story treats of a wealthy girl portrayed by Lois Boyd who owns the hotel in town and the attempts made by a notorious crook who inveigles her into a phony elopement. The crook's Wife becoming wise, complicates matters and the fat men who play tho part of bell boys in the a picture certainly give the heavy an awful time. Finally they save the girl from the villain and all ends well.
- A naïve/credulous/gullible/ shy young man (Stan Laurel) finds himself alone on an island inhabited by very enterprising/ sprightly women.
- Stan Laurel stars as a tramp, "a fierce, fiery, fearless, two-fisted loafer." Trouble announces itself as a plate loaded with doughnuts on a windowsill. The farmer's daughter takes pity on him and Stan falls in love. Before the end there will be tears, broken dishes and more doughnuts.
- A burlesque of Rudolph Valentino's "Monsieur Beaucaire." As M. Don't Care, he is forced to flee France for England and takes work as a barber. Complications follow - duels, a love affair with the Belle of Bath and the expose of M. Don't Care as a prince.
- This subject opens in a girls' boarding school with scenes of the girls doing the Charleston. Gale Henry is the school mistress and throughout the picture she is kept busy disciplining the pupils. She also protects them from male admirers, and animals which have escaped from the zoo. To add an atmosphere of terror to the comedy, lightning and heavy storm scenes are flashed every few feet throughout the entire picture.
- Stan is a detective who essentially relies on different costumes to successfully complete his investigations.
- This Blue Ribbon Comedy treats on the subject of a love sick couple who are afraid of the girls father. The cousin of the boy decides he will fix things up for the lovers and all his attempts result in getting the boy in worse with his prospective father-in-law. The lovers finally elope and are pursued by the irate father who of course must become reconciled now that the couple are wedded.
- As the three fat boys, answering the radio's call of "Get Up, Babies," roll out of bed, they begin their daily morning exercises. These include "ups and downs," "Dumbel Exercises." and such, which are necessary, says the aged and crippled broadcaster, if one wishes to attain physique such as his. During the "Ups and Downs," the fat boys use pulley-weights, and finally produce from the other side of the wall a man in a bath-tub. who complains that it is bad enough taking a bath without making a personal appearance. The ''Skipping Rope" Exercise proves to be disastrous, as the next scene shows the floor undulating with the bounces of the three fat boys, and finally collapsing when they all pounce upon a medicine ball. Nothing daunted, they run out into the hall where they find their rowing machine. This carries them into the street, and down a hill, where they make the discovery that they are late for the barber school. There they ply their trade on various interesting customers, whom they elevate in the barber chair at will. One of these received a most unusual hair-cut when the clippers plow a path in his hair from his forehead. to the back of his head. Another customer's beard discloses a pigeon when one of the boys starts to cut it. Lois Boyd, the manicurist, displays her ingenuity when she removed a half moon from her table in order that the fat boys may be seated comfortably when being manicured. But in spite of their cleverness, the boys and Lois Boyd cannot fool the two-gun man who is their last customer, and the fade-out shows them being chased down the street by their ferocious client.
- One of the fat men is the husband of the newly married bride, Lois Boyd. The other two fat men are the brides' brothers. They all go on a hiking and camping trip to spend the honeymoon. Many adventures befall the quartet. Trying to ride a river the rapids upset the canoe and cause the hikers much annoyance. They have many amusing experiences as huntsmen, etc. and the newly married couple finally decide that it is better to continue the honeymoon without the assistance of the two robust brothers.
- Stan (Stan Laurel) works in a grocery store in the middle of the mountains, buried in snow. The young woman he's in love with is falling for a fraud who pretends to be an officer. Stan has to do something! There's no time to waste!
- Joe, a modest and retiring young man, cannot arouse enough confidence in himself to challenge his fat rival in love. It would seem to Joe a great deal more safe to read about men who fought for their ladies, and, upon looking for encouragement, finds the tale of "Robin Hood" soothing. So much so that he falls asleep and dreams he is the famous bandit. Joe absorbs the "adventure" fever, and teaches his rival who's who and why.
- In this comedy we are introduced to the hero who finds his wife sewing baby clothes and believing he is to have an addition to his family rushes to the office and gives everybody a day off. Crazy with joy the boob rushes to and fro getting in a tangle with the police. Finally when he lands home he discovers that his wife has twins-- but not her own--They belong to their neighbor, Dr. Brown.
- The story opens with Fatty Alexander as governor of a state, Ross as a butler, and Carr as a friend of the Governor. This friend of the governor comes out with the fact that the state Insane Asylum is in a very poor condition and that he should make an immediate inspection. The three leave for the Asylum in a trick Ford which bounces all over the road. Upon their arrival at the Insane Asylum, the keepers will not let them in, so they go around the back way where they meet many of the inmates. Since these inmates are all insane, they do many foolish things before the three visitors. The chief stunt that they do is a fake aeroplane stunt from the roof of the Insane Asylum. They push an aeroplane off and instead of flying it goes right to the ground. Then the story is told to the governor that he has lost some important papers involving him, and they they must be found. He, with the two men accompanying him immediately make the aviation field to fly to find the papers. the aviators are all insane and they take them in aeroplanes which do all kinds of stunts, falls and explosions. The picture ends with the crash of three planes in the air, and all fall to the ground without anyone being badly injured.
- A traveling salesman battles hurricane-force winds and a disapproving father in competing with a rube for a local beauty's hand in marriage.
- Stationed in Latin America, lonely sailor Stan wants company. He invites himself to a dinner the Chief has been invited to, where he becomes entranced with the pretty hostess -- much to the chagrin of the Chief and of her local beau.
- This is a story of a tourist who is mistaken for the king of a country which he visits and is persuaded by the king who is warned that his life is threatened, to take his place. Naturally many amusing things happen and all the attempts at the king's life are frustrated by his understudy. However action gets too hot for the Duke, and next the characters are getting back to their original costumes.
- This subject is a burlesque on the production of a comedy, consisting of a story within a story. The story opens in a moving picture studio and showing a comedy company looking for a scenario and location to make a comedy. Shots are shown of other comedy companies at work. The scenario writer is found and he submits a story to the group entitles "A Beauty Parlor" The director reads the story to the company, scenes of the story flash on the screen, showing it to be an old-time comedy story, and the characters who are supposed to play in it "listen" to the end, having slept half of the time during the reading. Finally the whole company rejects the story in favor of the custard pie variety.
- It is a burlesque on college life in and around the town where the Chiropractors and Barbers' college is located. The theme of theme of the story is that the three fat men are interested in winning the girl, Lois Boyd, and Bud Jamison is opposed to them. Slapstick comedy leads up to the football game between the two teams, on the side of which is Bud Jamison, and on the other the, the fat men. The game is fought and is ended without anyone winning and the cup is awarded to the girl.
- The boys are up early in the morning, trying to pull Alexander's tooth. They experience some difficulty, for all ropes seem weak, and even a horse's strength insufficient to do the deed. Then Alexander tries to fix Lois' car-Lois is the daughter of Mr. Fare, President of the Street Car Company - and makes the wheels of the car compress and rebound as he steps on and off the car. The boys decide to tie a rope to Alex's tooth and the car, and then follow a mad ride through the streets, near collisions, narrow escapes, and the like; until finally the tooth is removed. Lois then secures the boys jobs as strikebreakers on her father's street cars. Protected on all sides by a martial guard, they proceed to the car barns, molested on all sides by the striker's bombs and airplanes. There they are greeted by an armed guard, who compliments them on their brave attempt. Two of the boys take a street car, and the other a bus. Kewpie Ross is prevented from stealing the nickels by what he imagines is the stony glare of his passenger, who he later finds out is blind. The strikers, in their fury, remove the controller from the car, causing it to run over the president, narrowly escape injuring several other passengers and finally ending up in a powder magazine. In a last feeble attempt to injure the strikers, they place a bomb behind three of the leaders. A dog who has witnessed the proceedings places it near them, and then pursues them when they flee. Thus it is only the shoes, collars, and hats of the boys which we see in the final shot, for their bodies are department heavenward.
- Frank makes fun of golfers until he sees all the other men with pretty partners. Now he has the golf "bug" and his sons try everything to cure him.
- A young woman is taken to a fancy nightclub by her uncle, but is stuck with the bill when the stingy uncle gets into an argument with a waiter and leaves without paying. While working off the debt, she recommends some friends of hers as an act for the club. Her friends are hired, but their performance does not go over very well, and soon the whole club is in an uproar.
- This is translated from a 'Cine-club' catalog Ufoleis (France) 1973-1974. The Three Fatty (A ton of fun) are salesmen in a grocery. Everyone will finish drinking the cider in the flooded cellar.
- The action centers about the tailor shop which is owned by "Tiny" Alexander, who plays the part of the father, the other two fat men portraying the roles of the two sons. The plot treats of the mischievous antics of the two boys who cause all kinds of trouble and complicate matters in and about the tailor shop in great shape.
- Neely portrays the role of the secretary to a famous explorer who is in Egypt to find the famous mummy cave. Alice is the explorer's daughter. We are introduced to the exploring party through the eyes of a telescope held by one of the Sheiks. who observes them from the window of his palace. The beauty of the girl entrances the potentate and he sends for the party. Determined to add the girl to his harem, he used every effort, but the secretary frustrates his attempts and rescues the girl.
- The comedy opens showing the three fat men and Lois preparing to go on a camping trip, in what apparently is setting in the woods. The next scene a distant shot, shows that the place where the preparation for the camping trip was taking place was a sporting goods store window. The next scene shows the party starting out for their camping destination in a Ford drawing a trailer. There are some amusing stunts done with the Ford and the trailer, just as they start to move. The arrival in the camp shows the three fat men out hunting where they make a number of mistakes shooting each other's hats off and getting in all kinds of trouble. At night time tears come prowling in the camp, entering the tents where the different parties are asleep. One of the boys finds it so cold that he puts on a fur coat and the fellow with whom he is sleeping asks that he take it off. Ross, wearing the fur coat, leaves the tent, and shortly after he leaves, the bear comes in, and Alexander mistakes the bear for Ross in the fur coat. Upon learning that it is a real bear, he is frightened and runs from the tent. There are also a number of scenes in which Gale Henry plays with a skunk, as she thinks it is a cat. Also scenes of a bat flying around in Alexander's hat. After leaving the camp, the party is seen homeward bound, where they try to ford a river, and the Ford goes in so deep that all the occupants are throws in the river.
- Fat, Fatty and Fatter are seen rescuing their old Ford from the scrap wagon that is hauling it away. And then report to work, where they have a dyspeptic boss. With the help of a monkey they manage to wreck the office.
- Alice Ardell portraying a feature role in this vehicle is about to be initiated into a sorority. One of the requirements of the initiation ceremony is that she don male attire. In this guise she is mistaken for a person of Royal Blood and the comedy centers about the mistaken identity of the prince and the flapper who is candidate for the Phi-Delta-Pie. Of course in the end everything is straightened out and both the girl and the prince achieve their object.
- The frenzied efforts of a faithful lover to save the home of his bride-to-be from the threatening sheriff. (A burlesque on "The Old Homestead".)
- This comedy tells the story of a young man who enters the military academy and is put through a great many adventures and it is finally revealed to him that all these thrills through which he goes are merely the result of a hazing episode.
- Harry Sweet in the story is an outcast from society, as he is a ne'er do well. He rents a room where Gale Henry is a landlady. He is unable to pay his room rent. Instead of paying his room rent with money he earned. Someone was always selling him something on his way home to pay the rent. Finally, the landlady threatens to put him out of the house, but as she goes to notify him, she hears an attorney reading the will of his grandfather, who has left Harry Sweet a million dollars. From then on he is chased by women, and his landlady Gale Henry in particular, all of the women trying to marry him.
- The boys get their diplomas as hobos from a correspondence school and start out to follow their chosen calling. They get in Dutch with a sheriff and make a hit with his pretty daughter. He chases them and they escape. Two of them disguise as a horse and chase around in a pasture with a real horse. Finally they are arrested and jailed, but they push the jail until it falls over a cliff and lands on real criminals, and they are greeted as heroes.