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1. The Edge of the World (1937)
Passed | 74 min | Drama, History, Romance
A way of life is dying on an Outer Hebridean island fishing port, but some of the inhabitants resist evacuating to the mainland.
Director: Michael Powell | Stars: Niall MacGinnis, Belle Chrystall, John Laurie, Eric Berry
Votes: 1,991
2. Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pryde (1925)
Not Rated | 21 min | Short, Comedy, Horror
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.
Directors: Scott Pembroke, Joe Rock | Stars: Stan Laurel, Julie Leonard, The Wonder Dog Pal, Syd Crossley
Votes: 404
3. West of Hot Dog (1924)
Not Rated | 30 min | Short, Western, Comedy
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... See full summary »
Directors: Joe Rock, Scott Pembroke | Stars: Stan Laurel, Julie Leonard, Lew Meehan
Votes: 301
4. Omnibus (1967–2003)
Not Rated | 43 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
Arts documentary series with concerts and experimental dramatizations.
Stars: Humphrey Burton, Kirsty Wark, David Collings, Michael Hordern
Votes: 294
5. The Sleuth (1925)
Not Rated | 20 min | Comedy, Short
Stan is a detective who essentially relies on different costumes to successfully complete his investigations.
Directors: Joe Rock, Harry Sweet | Stars: Stan Laurel, Glen Cavender, Alberta Vaughn, Anita Garvin
Votes: 119
6. Detained (1924)
Not Rated | 20 min | Short, Comedy
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.
Directors: Scott Pembroke, Joe Rock | Stars: Stan Laurel, Julie Leonard, Agnes Ayres
Votes: 115
7. Pie-Eyed (1925)
Not Rated | 18 min | Comedy, Short
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.
Directors: Scott Pembroke, Joe Rock | Stars: Stan Laurel, Glen Cavender, Thelma Hill, Budd Fine
Votes: 113
8. Half a Man (1925)
Not Rated | 20 min | Comedy, Short
A naïve/credulous/gullible/ shy young man (Stan Laurel) finds himself alone on an island inhabited by very enterprising/ sprightly women.
Directors: Joe Rock, Harry Sweet | Stars: Stan Laurel, Tui Bow, Julie Leonard, Blanche Payson
Votes: 94
9. Somewhere in Wrong (1925)
Not Rated | 20 min | Comedy, Short
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 ... See full summary »
Directors: Scott Pembroke, Joe Rock | Stars: Stan Laurel, Max Asher, Julie Leonard, Charles King
Votes: 92
10. Golf (1922)
Not Rated | 25 min | Comedy, Short
Silent comedy in which, using a drill to make holes in his floor, a golfer refuses to stop playing, swinging clubs from a tabletop, smashing mirrors and pottery throughout the house, even knocking golf balls into his neighbor's soup bowl.
Directors: Tom Buckingham, Larry Semon | Stars: Larry Semon, Lucille Carlisle, Al Thompson, Oliver Hardy
Votes: 83
11. Navy Blue Days (1925)
Not Rated | 20 min | Comedy, Short
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.
Directors: Scott Pembroke, Joe Rock | Stars: Stan Laurel, Julie Leonard, Glen Cavender, Zalla Zarana
Votes: 82
12. Cotton Queen (1937)
80 min | Comedy
1937. Comedy directed by Bernard Vorhaus. Stars Will Fyffe, Stanley Holloway and Jimmy Hanley. Rival cotton mill owners work together to win a contract when love blossoms between the rival's off-spring.
Directors: Bernard Vorhaus, Joe Rock | Stars: Will Fyffe, Stanley Holloway, Mary Lawson, Jimmy Hanley
Votes: 81
13. The Man Behind the Mask (1936)
79 min | Drama
A young couple attends a masked ball before their planned secret elopement. Suddenly everything goes wrong when the young woman is abducted and held hostage by a crazed attacker.
Director: Michael Powell | Stars: Hugh Williams, Jane Baxter, Ronald Ward, Maurice Schwartz
Votes: 77
14. The Snow Hawk (1925)
Not Rated | 20 min | Short, Comedy
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!
Directors: Scott Pembroke, Joe Rock | Stars: Stan Laurel, Glen Cavender, Julie Leonard
Votes: 72
15. A Mandarin Mixup (1924)
20 min | Short, Comedy
An employee at a commercial laundry mistakenly thinks he's Chinese. Complications ensue.
Director: Scott Pembroke | Stars: Stan Laurel, Julie Leonard
Votes: 65
16. Three of a Kind (1926)
23 min | Comedy, Short
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Harry Sweet | Stars: Hilliard Karr, Frank Alexander, 'Kewpie' Ross, Lois Boyd
Votes: 54
17. What! No Spinach? (1926)
19 min | Short, Comedy
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Harry Sweet | Stars: Harry Sweet, Gale Henry, Alyce Ardell, Marjorie Beebe
Votes: 52
18. Plagues and Puppy Love (1917)
10 min | Short, Comedy
While in the park, Florence is pursued and flirted with by multiple suitors.
Director: Larry Semon | Stars: Larry Semon, Florence Curtis, Eddie Dunn, Pietro Aramondo
Votes: 47
19. Twins (1925)
20 min | Comedy, Short
Directors: Scott Pembroke, Joe Rock | Stars: Stan Laurel, Julie Leonard, Alberta Vaughn, Beth Darlington
Votes: 46
20. Sing as You Swing (1937)
82 min | Musical, Romance
Radio stars of the 1930s putting on a show
Director: Redd Davis | Stars: Charles Clapham, Bill Dwyer, Claude Dampier, Billie Carlyle
Votes: 46
21. Everything Is Rhythm (1936)
65 min | Musical
Harry Roy/Wade and his band finally find their way to success when they are hired to perform at a big hotel. There he meets by chance the Princess of Monrovia and they fall for each other. ... See full summary »
Director: Alfred J. Goulding | Stars: Harry Roy, Princess Pearl, Dorothy Boyd, Clarissa Selwynne
Votes: 45
22. Krakatoa (1933)
23 min | Documentary, Short
Documentary describing the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa in the Dutch East Indies, destroying 70% of the island and its surrounding archipelago.
Stars: Graham McNamee, Joseph Cotten
Votes: 43
23. Heavy Love (1926)
22 min | Short, Comedy
A trio of overweight and incompetent carpenters are hired by a young woman to build a house.
Director: Scott Pembroke | Stars: Frank Alexander, Hilliard Karr, 'Kewpie' Ross, Lois Boyd
Votes: 41
24. The Midnight Cabaret (1923)
Comedy, Short
Despite his vocation as a waiter Larry is in love with the star of a review at a cabaret and, after the most insurmountable obstacles, he wins her.
Director: Larry Semon | Stars: Larry Semon, Kathleen Myers, Oliver Hardy, Fred DeSilva
Votes: 39
25. A Pair of Kings (1922)
17 min | Short, Comedy
The king is threatened with a revolution and death, and he abdicates in favor of the dock laborer who has hidden in a box and been smuggled into the palace. The new ruler is too lively for ... See full summary »
Directors: Larry Semon, Norman Taurog | Stars: Larry Semon, Lucille Carlisle, Oliver Hardy, William Hauber
Votes: 39
26. Boys Will Be Girls (1938)
66 min | Comedy
Matronly great-aunt Emily went off to Africa and left behind her snobbish wannabe family. Ten years later, upon her death, the greedy family members await the reading of her will. Ready to ... See full summary »
Director: Gilbert Pratt | Stars: Leslie Fuller, Nellie Wallace, Greta Gynt, Constance Godridge
Votes: 38
27. The Counter Jumper (1922)
20 min | Comedy, Short
Larry's troubles begin when he tries to be a clerk in a country store and help an heiress who is being sought by a clever villain.
Director: Larry Semon | Stars: Larry Semon, Lucille Carlisle, Oliver Hardy, Spencer Bell
Votes: 38
28. Tough Luck and Tin Lizzies (1917)
11 min | Short, Comedy
Unlucky Larry finds himself pursued by the police after he inadvertently steals a man's car and kidnaps his girlfriend.
Director: Larry Semon | Stars: Larry Semon, Florence Curtis, Joe Rock, Pietro Aramondo
Votes: 35
29. Rhythm Racketeer (1937)
84 min | Crime, Musical
Gangster Nap Connors tries to break into the London underworld and finds he has a double in Harry Grant. Forced to return to America by a feared hit-man, Nap uses his double to give him the perfect alibi for a jewel heist on board ship.
Director: James Seymour | Stars: Harry Roy, Princess Pearl, James Carew, Norma Varden
Votes: 32
30. Mau-Mau (1955)
58 min | Documentary, Drama
Newsman Chet Huntley narrates this documentary showing the rise of the African resistance movement known as the "Mau-Mau" against British rule in East Africa in the early 1950s.
Director: Elwood Price | Star: Chet Huntley
Votes: 27
31. Worries and Wobbles (1917)
13 min | Short, Comedy
A drunken husband comes home late and causes his wife all sorts of trouble.
Director: Larry Semon | Stars: Jimmy Aubrey, Earl Montgomery, Pietro Aramondo, Eddie Dunn
Votes: 27
32. His Home Sweet Home (1919)
Comedy, Short
Director: Larry Semon | Stars: Larry Semon, Lucille Carlisle, Rosa Gore, Frank Hayes
Votes: 24
33. The Whirlwind (1922)
Short, Comedy
A traveling salesman battles hurricane-force winds and a disapproving father in competing with a rube for a local beauty's hand in marriage.
Director: Joe Rock | Stars: Joe Rock, Max Asher, Charles Avery, Lillian Biron
Votes: 24
34. The Barnyard (1923)
Comedy, Short
Two land sharks, U. Holdim and I. Robim, are after a farmer's property where oil has been discovered. The farm hand, Lay Zee, in love with the farmer's daughter, saves the farm and routs the oily crooks.
Director: Larry Semon | Stars: Larry Semon, Kathleen Myers, Oliver Hardy, Frank Hayes
Votes: 23
35. Monsieur Don't Care (1924)
20 min | Short, Comedy
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 ... See full summary »
Directors: Scott Pembroke, Joe Rock | Stars: Stan Laurel, Melba Brownrigg
Votes: 23
36. Risks and Roughnecks (1917)
Short, Comedy
Larry does not hesitate to rescue his girl from kidnappers, just as all his fictional heroes would do.
Director: Larry Semon | Stars: Larry Semon, Florence Curtis, Earl Montgomery, Joe Rock
Votes: 22
37. Rips and Rushes (1917)
Short, Comedy
A dancing class features a group of girl students including one blonde favorite who's got three men vying for her love, played by fat Hughie Mack, oily and villainous Jimmy Aubrey, and ... See full summary »
Director: Larry Semon | Stars: Hughie Mack, Jimmy Aubrey, Alice Mann, John Costello
Votes: 22
38. Hash and Havoc (1916)
Short, Comedy
Director: Larry Semon | Stars: Hughie Mack, Patsy De Forest, Jimmy Aubrey, Eddie Dunn
Votes: 20
39. The Call of the Wilderness (1926)
56 min | Action, Drama
In a small western town, a man meets a girl whose father is a land agent. To please her, he buys a plot of land from her father. Next thing he knows, he's mixed up in a plot to drive him off his land.
Director: Jack Nelson | Stars: Sandow the Dog, Lewis Sargent, Edna Marion, Sidney De Gray
Votes: 19
40. Gall and Golf (1917)
10 min | Comedy, Short
At a swanky country club, assorted rich people including society matrons and top hatted fops are playing golf. One of them(Florence Curtis as a blonde) is also a pickpocket. Larry catches ... See full summary »
Director: Larry Semon | Stars: Larry Semon, Florence Curtis, Earl Montgomery, Templar Saxe
Votes: 19
41. Forbidden Territory (1934)
Approved | 74 min | Drama, Romance
Britisher Sir Charles Farrington and a son, Rex Farrington, arrive in a Russian Soviet territory searching for another Farrington son, Michael,who has been thrown into prison. Valarie ... See full summary »
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Gregory Ratoff, Ronald Squire, Binnie Barnes, Tamara Desni
Votes: 18
42. One Good Turn (1936)
72 min | Comedy
Director: Alfred J. Goulding | Stars: Leslie Fuller, Georgie Harris, Hal Gordon, Molly Fisher
Votes: 17
43. The Agent (1922)
Comedy, Short
Directors: Tom Buckingham, Larry Semon | Stars: Larry Semon, Lucille Carlisle, Oliver Hardy, Al Thompson
Votes: 17
44. A Fraternity Mixup (1926)
Comedy, Short
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Scott Pembroke | Stars: Alyce Ardell, Gale Henry, Ella McKenzie, Joe Bonner
Votes: 17
45. Hold Tight (1925)
Comedy, Short
Billy tries to save the heroine from a gang who wants to steal her mining rights.
Director: Marcel Perez | Stars: Alyce Ardell, Bobby Dunn, Joe Rock
Votes: 17
46. The Heavy Parade (1926)
21 min | War, Short, Comedy
Director: Gilbert Pratt | Stars: Hilliard Karr, Frank Alexander, 'Kewpie' Ross, Lois Boyd
Votes: 16
47. Captain Bill (1935)
81 min
Director: Ralph Ceder | Stars: Leslie Fuller, Georgie Harris, D.J. Williams, Judy Kelly
Votes: 15
48.
Omnibus (1967–2003)
Episode:
Cuckoo: A Celebration of Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy
(1974)
Not Rated | 67 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
a look at the early film comedy team of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy.
Director: Robert Vas | Stars: Eric Morecambe, Ernie Wise, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy
Votes: 14
49. She's a Prince (1926)
20 min | Short, Comedy
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Marcel Perez | Stars: Alyce Ardell, Billy Franey, Billy Engle, Dorothy Vernon
Votes: 13
50. Chop Suey Louie (1923)
Comedy, Short
Stars: Joe Rock, Billie Rhodes, Frank Alexander, Max Asher
Votes: 13