Arthur Ripley

The on and off land escapades of a sailor as he prepares for a boxing match.

Silent comedy short film starring Ben Turpin

A bootlegger on the run from the law hides out on a college campus. He disguises himself as a student and soon becomes the school's star athlete and...

Chuck Scott gets a job as chauffeur to tough guy Eddie Roman; but Chuck's involvement with Eddie's fearful wife becomes a nightmare.

Former concert pianist, victim of Nazi torture, pursues a confused, melancholic existence on the island of Guadalupe.

Former concert pianist, victim of Nazi torture, pursues a confused, melancholic existence on the island of Guadalupe.

A henpecked but stoic pharmacist tries to maintain his precarious balance while dealing with demanding customers and his dysfunctional family.

An inept barber maintains his good-humored optimism in his small town shop despite having a hen-pecking harridan for a wife and a total lack of...

Unrepentant Tennessee moonshine runner Luke Doolin (Robert Mitchum) makes dangerous high-speed deliveries for his liquor-producing father, Vernon...

Unrepentant Tennessee moonshine runner Luke Doolin (Robert Mitchum) makes dangerous high-speed deliveries for his liquor-producing father, Vernon...

A poor cobbler's son enters a $25,000 cross-country hiking contest sponsored by the footwear company that has nearly bankrupted his father. He also...

A meek Belgian soldier (Harry Langdon) fighting in World War I receives penpal letters and a photo from "Mary Brown", an American girl he has never...

Andy remarries, but his new wife has no use for either his son or his dog.

A vamp is hired to destroy an impending wedding.

Harry and his ex-sergeant recall their rivalry over the same girl.

Edgar thinks he finally has a plan that will force his lazy, mooching brother-in-law to get a job. First, Edgar has some friends help him to stage a...

Andy remarries, but his new wife has no use for either his son or his dog.

This comedic short provides a lesson in how NOT to train a dog.

In Highland Park, it's Agnes Fisher and Harold Hope's wedding day. Mishaps almost keep them from getting hitched: he goes to the wrong church, then,...

Two men working below a manhole cover wonder what they would do if a woman was to fall in. This leads to one of the workers saying that Robert...

A man tries to win the admiration of a girl's father, by pretending he's earned medals for bravery.

A hard-living dockworker finds religion until his brother is murdered.

The saga of Alias Jimmy Valentine began with the O. Henry story "A Retrieved Reformation". This surprise-ending tale was adapted into a stage play by...

Harry leaves home to become a doctor, but winds up with "Doc" Healy's Medicine Show.

An American astronomer living on a Pacific island attempts to thwart the Japanese during WWII.

Little orphan Harry is separated from his childhood sweetheart. Years later, he finds she's a bearded lady in a circus.

Errol is a character actor who wears various makeups, costumes, and disguises when he goes home. His neighbors mistakenly suspect his glamorous young...

Harry and his friend have planned to go out for an afternoon of fun. But first, Harry must figure out how to slip away from his domineering wife with...

While filling up with gas, a carload of passengers notices that the service station is up for sale. They decide to buy the station and try to run it...

A wife, tired of her husband's non-stop carousing, sues him for divorce. The judge, however, comes up with a novel solution--he makes the husband...

Harry will do anything to be a musician, but it takes a junk collector to discover his hidden talents.

Harry, The Odd Fellow, is a tenement worker who lives alone in a shack alongside a warehouse and longs for the companionship of a wife and children...

A con artist masquerades as Russian nobility and attempts to seduce the wife of an American diplomat.

Fire chief Amos McCarthy, a confirmed misogynist, counsels his nephew Harry Howells to avoid matrimony at all costs. Still, the lovestruck Harry is...

Joyce Compton tries to help her new husband, Eddie Gribbon (as Scissors Jackson), win a wrestling match which he incorrectly thinks is framed in his...

Joyce Compton tries to help her new husband, Eddie Gribbon (as Scissors Jackson), win a wrestling match which he incorrectly thinks is framed in his...

An American astronomer living on a Pacific island attempts to thwart the Japanese during WWII.

A meek Belgian soldier (Harry Langdon) fighting in World War I receives penpal letters and a photo from "Mary Brown", an American girl he has never...

Harry Shelby has been kept in knee pants for years by his overprotective parents, but the day finally comes when Harry is given his first pair of...

New lawyer Harry defends a woman charged with poisoning her husband.

A quiet day at home is interrupted by arguments over Shakespearean speeches.

Edgar falls in love with another woman.

In Vermont, college student Ives Towner refuses to marry his longtime girlfriend, Julie Weir, until he has a career. Soon after, Julie meets and...

When his wife threatens to leave him because of his notoriously bad temper, Edgar promises that there will be no more tantrums.

A writer's fiction becomes terrifying reality, sucking him into his own novel being played out.

Harry and his ex-sergeant recall their rivalry over the same girl.

To get some creative inspiration, mystery writer Harry moves into a haunted house.

A sheriff's daughter, and deputy sheriff, falls for a handsome stranger. who cracks a joke about robbing a bank. When a robbery then takes place, he...

No known surviving copy is known to exist. This well received film revolved around Harry Van Housen's rejection from service in WWI and subsequent...

To get some creative inspiration, mystery writer Harry moves into a haunted house.

A hobby-mad family makes their obsessions pay off.

In this operetta, the captain of the king's guard secretly works for the rebellion during the French Revolution and is in love with the movement's...

Clorinda Wildairs breaks off an affair with the unscrupulous Sir John Ozen to become engaged to a rich nobleman, Mertoun, the Duke of Osmonde....

A Criterion compilation of "six gems that feature the comic genius at his peak: The Golf Specialist, Pool Sharks (silent), The Pharmacist, The Fatal...

To avoid getting a speeding ticket Walter poses as an expectant father rushing to see his wife; when the cop follows him, he's forced to come up with...

Harry runs into his old Marine sergeant and is reminded of the rivalry they had for a girl while they were stationed in France.

Chester Winfield tries to make it as a lumberjack, but he's foiled by his lack of strength and the jealous foreman, Big Bill Reardon, after Chester...