4th list of comedy shorts
Stooges and Laurel & Hardy got me into these and it never stops.
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- DirectorLewis R. FosterStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyHarry BernardTaking the train to a show in Pottsville, musicians Stanley and Oliver run into trouble once settled in their sleeping car berth.Laurel & Hardys start off this list
- DirectorLewis R. FosterStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyEdgar KennedyThe novice repo men, Stan and Ollie, are sent to serve a summons to a tough customer who hasn't paid for a radio, as canines, a rifle, and a steamroller threaten to put an end to their ambitions. Just how hard is it to get the job done?
- DirectorWilliam C. McGannJohn G. AdolfiThomas AtkinsStarsNorma ShearerStan LaurelOliver HardyThe boys and a Los Angeles police detective investigate the theft of actress Norma Shearer's jewelry.
- DirectorJames W. HorneStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyMae BuschMrs. Hardy and Mrs. Laurel send their husbands to the store to buy ice-cream but on the way back home the boys rescue from drowning a suicidal woman who's wanted by the police.
- DirectorJames W. HorneStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyMary CarrA kindly old widow serves a free meal to the penniless boys but her greedy landlord wants to evict her for non payment of her mortgage, prompting the boys to come to her rescue.
- DirectorJames W. HorneStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyJames W. HorneJilted by his girlfriend, "Jeanie-Weenie," Oliver joins the Foreign Legion to forget, bringing Stanley along with him. They wilt under the scorching desert sun and under the harsh discipline of the Commandant. On a long march to reinforce remote Fort Arid, the boys get lost in the sands, finally reaching the Fort only to find it besieged by the fearsome Riffs.
- DirectorJames ParrottStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyBobby BurnsTwo bumbling circus performers inadvertently help drive the circus into ruin and then end up in possession of a flea circus and an oversized chimp.
- DirectorGeorge MarshallStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyMae BuschStan convinces Oliver to adopt a baby to placate his wife, but upon returning home with the infant, they find a process server with a divorce summons, leaving the two buffoons to care for the squealing baby.
- DirectorCharley RogersStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyMae BuschA serious case of emotional neglect brings door-to-door Christmas cards salesmen, Stan and Ollie, at the house of an inconsolable wife who is convinced that her artist husband doesn't love her anymore.
- DirectorLewis R. FosterStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyJean HarlowStanley and Oliver, in their new jobs as footman and doorman at a ritzy hotel, wreak their usual havoc on the guests, including partially undressing a swanky blonde guest and repeatedly escorting a haughty Prussian nobleman into an empty elevator shaft.
- DirectorCharley ChaseHarold LawStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyCharley ChaseCharlie relates his harrowing vacation to his co-workers, including his encounter with two confused, derby-hatted hitchikers.More Hal Roach studios works
- DirectorGus MeinsStarsThelma ToddPatsy KellyDon BarclayThe girls are going on a camping trip.
- DirectorJules WhiteStarsZasu PittsThelma ToddAnita GarvinThe girls and their pet monkey create havoc on board a train carrying a traveling Broadway troupe.
- DirectorGus MeinsStarsThelma ToddPatsy KellyDon BarclayThe girls win a car in a raffle.
- DirectorEdward L. CahnStarsRobert BlakeDarla HoodGeorge 'Spanky' McFarlandAlfalfa meets rich-boy Cornelius who, surprisingly, looks like Alfalfa and so they decided to switch places.
- DirectorClyde BruckmanStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardThe Stooges are private detectives in the Old West trying to help a girl recover an IOU from a bad guy. Their attempts to steal the IOU from the villain's wallet, then from a safe, meet with problems until Curly, who goes berserk whenever he sees a mouse, knocks out all the bad guys.Stooges time
- DirectorJules WhiteStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardAfter initially joining the Union army, Moe and Larry switch allegiances to their Southern home state and Confederate brother Curley.
- DirectorCharles LamontStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardIn Medieval times, the Stooges learn they are of royal blood and vow to save the kingdom. They become the Queen's royal guards but are sentenced to die when the Queen is abducted on the orders of the evil Prime Minister. The Stooges escape, free the Queen, and end by knocking one another.
- DirectorJack WhiteStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardThe stooges are discharged from the army after WW I, and promptly administer some revenge to their mean sergeant. Years later they wind up in the army again, and of course the same sergeant is their superior. The sergeant plays various tricks on them, and when the stooges go crazy with a cannon, blowing up a house, a bridge, and a smoke stack, and the Admiral's flagship, he blows them up.
- DirectorJack WhiteStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardA 17th Century English judge orders three miscreants to defend the new British colonies in New England against its residential Native Americans.
- DirectorJules WhiteStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardThree bumbling waiters try to help a clinically depressed little girl by locating her kidnapped father.
- DirectorJules WhiteStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardThe stooges are defense workers who have trouble getting to sleep when Curly gets a toothache. Moe and Larry try various ways to remove the offending tooth, but nothing works so they take Curly to the dentist. While Moe gets in the chair to show Curly how easy its going to be, the dentist enters and pulls Moe's tooth by mistake. Curly then wakes up and realizes its all been a dream and a punch to the mouth from Moe dislodges the tooth.
- DirectorJules WhiteStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardThe stooges make a whole batch of homemade beer, but get tossed in jail when Curly sells some to a policeman. Their minor indiscretion turns into a forty year sentence when a barrel of beer Curly has hidden under his coat explodes while the boys are being photographed. In prison, the stooges get into more trouble with the warden and wind on the rockpile when they try to escape. Finally released as old men with long gray beards, the first thing Curly wants is a bottle of beer.
- DirectorEdward BerndsStarsMoe HowardLarry FineShemp HowardThe stooges are trainers of Chopper, the boxer, and they bet their bank roll on his next fight. But his manager is a gangster who orders them to have Chopper lose or else. When Chopper's girl goes for his opponent, Stooge things happen.
- DirectorJules WhiteStarsMoe HowardLarry FineShemp HowardSet in a desert land where the stooges run a restaurant, the boys set out to recover the stolen Rootin Tootin diamond after they learn from the thieves that the Emir of Shmo has absconded with the contraband jewel. They journey to the stronghold of Shmo where they disguise as Santa Clauses and scare the ruler into giving them the diamond.