2013 Shorts
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1. Summer Daze (1932)
18 min | Short, Comedy
Karl's so lethargic and sleepy, he dozes off at his club, and nobody notices him for days. To give him some pep, George takes him and their wives camping in the Adirondacks, but Karl still ... See full summary »
Director: Albert Ray | Stars: George K. Arthur, Karl Dane, Marjorie Beebe, Aileen Cook
Votes: 7
2. An Incompetent Hero (1914)
Short, Comedy
Fatty's flirting with neighbor Kennedy's wife, and he isn't happy about it. Al's a crook, Minta's a maid and Fatty gets caught in a chase through the house while Edgar's shooting at him.
Director: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | Stars: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Edgar Kennedy, Lucille Ward, Minta Durfee
Votes: 14
3. Summer Daze (1932)
18 min | Short, Comedy
Karl's so lethargic and sleepy, he dozes off at his club, and nobody notices him for days. To give him some pep, George takes him and their wives camping in the Adirondacks, but Karl still ... See full summary »
Director: Albert Ray | Stars: George K. Arthur, Karl Dane, Marjorie Beebe, Aileen Cook
Votes: 7
4. An Incompetent Hero (1914)
Short, Comedy
Fatty's flirting with neighbor Kennedy's wife, and he isn't happy about it. Al's a crook, Minta's a maid and Fatty gets caught in a chase through the house while Edgar's shooting at him.
Director: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | Stars: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Edgar Kennedy, Lucille Ward, Minta Durfee
Votes: 14
5. A Busy Night (1916)
Short, Comedy
Tweedledum is the victim of a nightmare. The plot deals with the adventures of a club man who has fallen in love with his neighbor's wife, which ends by Tweedledum waking up to find that it was only a dream.
Director: Marcel Perez | Stars: Marcel Perez, Nilde Baracchi, Tom Murray
Votes: 24
6. Dough Nuts (1917)
Comedy, Short
West modifies the story from Chaplin's "Dough and Dynamite", with the emphasis on throwing and covering everyone with bread dough.
Director: Arvid E. Gillstrom | Stars: Oliver Hardy, Billy West, Ethel Marie Burton, Leo White
Votes: 12
7. Outs and Ins (1916)
Short, Comedy
Musty works in an automat where the customers steal food using slugs and reaching through the vending doors. Musty smashes them over the head with a mallet, and dumps the bodies down a chute to what appears to be a sausage processor.
Director: Louis Myll | Stars: Harry Watson, Dan Crimmins, Della Connor, Maxfield Moree
Votes: 15
8. Under a Spell (1925)
Short, Comedy
When Neely is hypnotized to think he's a monkey, he goes on a freewheeling chase where he climbs things he wouldn't ordinarily and throws lots of things.
Director: Richard Smith | Stars: Neely Edwards, Bert Roach, Alice Howell, Tony Campanaro
Votes: 32
9. Honeymoon Trio (1931)
10 min | Comedy, Short
As Al and Dorothy start their honeymoon, Al finds to his horror that Catlett is coming along, and takes the wheel of their car, putting Al in the rumble seat. He pushes Al around,until he can't stand it and resorts to violence.
Director: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | Stars: Walter Catlett, Al St. John, Dorothy Granger, Dennis O'Keefe
Votes: 18
10. Queenie of Hollywood (1931)
20 min | Short, Comedy
Three girls apply for maid jobs at a resort but are taken for royalty when a telegram about their dog Queenie is intercepted.Film producers vie to put them under contract but selling a ... See full summary »
Director: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | Stars: Rita Flynn, Virginia Brooks, Jeanne Farrin, Fern Emmett
Votes: 19
11. So Near, Yet So Far (1912)
17 min | Short, Crime, Romance
A very pretty girl is always surrounded by many male admirers, much to the dismay of one very shy fellow, who gets his chance to impress her when two burglars break in.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Walter Miller, Mary Pickford, L.M. Wells, Robert Harron
Votes: 131
12. The Fuller Gush Man (1934)
Approved | 20 min | Short, Comedy
Walter goes to his girlfriend's parents to ask their permission to marry her; but the family puts on an act and pretends to be totally loony.
Director: Al Boasberg | Stars: Walter Catlett, Vivien Oakland, Zeffie Tilbury, Lew Kelly
Votes: 10
13. Camp Meetin' (1936)
Approved | 17 min | Short, Comedy, Music
Members of the Hall Johnson Choir play members of a church congregation in the deep South in 1936. THey hold an open-air tent-and-camp meeting in order to raise the funds needed to send the... See full summary »
Director: Leslie Goodwins | Stars: Hall Johnson Choir, Matthew 'Stymie' Beard, Clinton Rosemond, Libby Taylor
14. Sammy's Scandalous Scheme (1915)
Comedy, Short
Sammy can't get any attention from his girlfriend Dot because all she can think of is Charlie Chaplin. She sends Chaplin an enticing letter and Sammy a rejection, but the two get mixed up, ... See full summary »
Director: Gilbert P. Hamilton | Stars: Sammy Burns, Dot Farley, Dorothea Clarke, James Green
15. Ham and the Masked Marvel (1916)
15 min | Comedy, Short
Ham and Bud fall victims to Norma, but they run afoul of hubby, six foot two and big and broad. Hubby seeks revenge but Ham and Bud are fleet of foot. So a plan is concocted by which Ham is... See full summary »
Director: Harry Edwards | Stars: Lloyd Hamilton, Bud Duncan, Norma Nichols
16. Nearly Spliced (1921)
Short, Comedy
Stars: Leon Errol, Arthur Housman, Della Connor, Dan Crimmins
Votes: 7
17. It's a Frame-Up! (2013)
30 min | Short, Comedy
Those merry madcaps of mayhem, Biffle & Shooster, in the movie that sets comedy back 75 years--to when it was, y'know, actually funny. The less-than-legendary vaudeville team made 20 comedy... See full summary »
Director: Michael Schlesinger | Stars: Nick Santa Maria, Will Ryan, Andrew Parks, Alison Martin
Votes: 26
18. The Smile Wins (1928)
20 min | Comedy, Family, Short
Farina's mother is very ill and the mortgage is due. He tries to take over her laundry business, but the kids just wreck the clothes. Joe takes pity and devises a scheme to make money: the gang builds their own oil well.
Director: Robert F. McGowan | Stars: Joe Cobb, Jackie Condon, Allen 'Farina' Hoskins, Jannie Hoskins
Votes: 31
19. Sailors Beware! (1933)
18 min | Short, Comedy
A pair of sailors are on shore leave - skirt chasing and raising hell. They're targeted and pursued by a gang looking for a sailor with a winning lottery ticket. Mayhem ensues.
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Eugene Pallette, Walter Catlett, Dorothy Granger, Matt McHugh
Votes: 15
20. I Cover the Everglades (1951)
10 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Justin Herman | Star: Edwin Cooper
21. Hurricane Hunters (1953)
10 min | Short
An overview of how approaching hurricanes are analyzed by the weather bureau, by sending Navy and Air Force flyers into the heart of the impending storm (in the years before satellites.)
Director: Justin Herman | Star: Ward Wilson
22. The Circus Show-Up (1932)
Passed | 18 min | Mystery, Short
The sixth in The Shadow series of shorts from Universal. In this one the circus trapeze artist falls to her death when someone flips the light switch just as she starts her famed triple ... See full summary »
Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: Sally Blane, Russell Hopton, Paul Nicholson, William Halligan
Votes: 21
23. House of Mystery (1931)
16 min | Mystery, Short
Two hunters discover a dead young woman in a cabin in the woods.One of them being the sheriff, he proceeds to press the wealthy owner for an explanation. At first it looks like his son has ... See full summary »
Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: James Durkin, Wilfred Lucas, Leyland Hodgson, Frank Austin
Votes: 27
24. A Burglar to the Rescue (1931)
Passed | 18 min | Short, Crime, Mystery
The story is about a bank president who has been stealing from the bank. One night, as he is working on the books to cover his crimes,a visitor arrives with a gun. In the conversation that ... See full summary »
Director: George Cochrane | Stars: Thurston Hall, Charlotte Wynters, Frank Shannon, Arthur Aylesworth
Votes: 42
26. On the Loose (1931)
20 min | Comedy, Short
The girls, tired of being taken to Coney Island by all the local boys, meet up with two Englishmen who offer to take them on a date--to Coney Island.
Director: Hal Roach | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Zasu Pitts, Thelma Todd
Votes: 473
27. Soak the Poor (1937)
Approved | 16 min | Short, Crime, Drama
Entry number 11 in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series deals with racketeers shaking down small grocers and horning in on the relief tickets, forcing prices up with the consumers paying the freight.
Director: Harold S. Bucquet | Stars: Leslie Fenton, Leon Ames, Ted Billings, John Butler
Votes: 123
28. It May Happen to You (1937)
Approved | 21 min | Short, Crime, Drama
From MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" Series. Mobsters convince a meat packing company employee to help them hijack a truckload of beef.
Director: Harold S. Bucquet | Stars: J. Carrol Naish, King Baggot, William Bailey, Barbara Bedford
Votes: 118
29. Give Till It Hurts (1937)
Approved | 21 min | Crime, Short, Drama
This entry in the Crime Does Not Pay series focuses on charity fraud. Two scam artists set themselves up as 'philanthropists' to help raise money for a local clinic, but the funds they raise never get to help the people who need it.
Director: Felix E. Feist | Stars: Janet Beecher, Clay Clement, Howard Hickman, King Baggot
Votes: 90
30. Behind the Criminal (1937)
Approved | 20 min | Short, Crime, Drama
A police detective goes undercover as a criminal to get the goods on a shady lawyer who uses phony witnesses and perjury to get guilty clients acquitted.
Director: Harold S. Bucquet | Stars: Edward Emerson, Walter Kingsford, Anna Q. Nilsson, Joe Sawyer
Votes: 24
31. What Price Safety! (1938)
Passed | 20 min | Short, Crime, Drama
Racketeers muscle in on construction business, use inferior materials, make big profits and endanger the public safety.
Director: Harold S. Bucquet | Stars: Lionel Royce, George Houston, John Wray, John Butler
Votes: 88
32. Give Till It Hurts (1937)
Approved | 21 min | Crime, Short, Drama
This entry in the Crime Does Not Pay series focuses on charity fraud. Two scam artists set themselves up as 'philanthropists' to help raise money for a local clinic, but the funds they raise never get to help the people who need it.
Director: Felix E. Feist | Stars: Janet Beecher, Clay Clement, Howard Hickman, King Baggot
Votes: 90
33. Behind the Criminal (1937)
Approved | 20 min | Short, Crime, Drama
A police detective goes undercover as a criminal to get the goods on a shady lawyer who uses phony witnesses and perjury to get guilty clients acquitted.
Director: Harold S. Bucquet | Stars: Edward Emerson, Walter Kingsford, Anna Q. Nilsson, Joe Sawyer
Votes: 24
34. What Price Safety! (1938)
Passed | 20 min | Short, Crime, Drama
Racketeers muscle in on construction business, use inferior materials, make big profits and endanger the public safety.
Director: Harold S. Bucquet | Stars: Lionel Royce, George Houston, John Wray, John Butler
Votes: 88
35. The Fortune Teller (1923)
8 min | Animation, Comedy, Short
Max tries to scare a fortune teller while she gives Ko-Ko a card reading. Ko-Ko is haunted by evil spirits in the cartoon world and escapes to cause some mischief in Max's house, but faces the fortune teller's curse.
Director: Dave Fleischer | Star: Max Fleischer
Votes: 58
36. Miracle Money (1938)
Passed | 21 min | Short, Crime, Drama
A quack doctor convinces people that this "Volta Ray" cures cancer, and the local medical examiners must figure out a way to put his fraudulent practice to an end.
Director: Leslie Fenton | Stars: John Miljan, Boyd Crawford, Robert Middlemass, E. Alyn Warren
Votes: 125
37. Allez Oop! (1934)
Not Rated | 21 min | Short, Comedy
When Buster's girlfriend falls for a trapeze artist, Buster tries to beat him at his own game.
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Buster Keaton, Dorothy Sebastian, George J. Lewis, Harry Myers
Votes: 338
38. The Butcher Boy (1917)
Not Rated | 30 min | Short, Comedy
Customers and clerks frolic in a general store. Roscoe walks out of the freezer wearing a fur coat, then does some clever cleaver tossing. In Buster's film debut he buys a pail of molasses.
Director: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | Stars: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Al St. John, Josephine Stevens
Votes: 1,888
39. The Rough House (1917)
19 min | Comedy, Short
Roscoe, his wife and his mother-in-law run a seaside resort. Buster plays a gardener who puts out a fire started by Roscoe, then a delivery boy who fights with the cook St. John, then a cop.
Directors: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Buster Keaton | Stars: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Al St. John, Alice Lake
Votes: 1,577
40. His Wedding Night (1917)
19 min | Short, Comedy
In a drugstore Al and Roscoe are rivals for Alice. Roscoe slings melons and operates the gas pump. Buster delivers a wedding gown for Alice, begins modeling it, is mistaken for Alice and is kidnapped by Al.
Director: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | Stars: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Al St. John, Alice Mann
Votes: 1,270
41. Oh Doctor! (1917)
23 min | Comedy, Short
Roscoe is a doctor who falls in love with a pretty woman whose boyfriend, in turn, falls in love with Roscoe's wife's jewelry.
Director: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | Stars: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Al St. John, Alice Mann
Votes: 1,147
42. Palooka from Paducah (1935)
Approved | 20 min | Comedy, Short
A hillbilly family, hard-hit by the end of Prohibition, decide to set the biggest brother up as a professional wrestler.
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Buster Keaton, Myra Keaton, Joe Keaton, Louise Keaton
Votes: 163
43. The Gold Ghost (1934)
Not Rated | 20 min | Short, Comedy, Western
Dumped by his girlfriend, Buster drives west and winds up in a ghost town called Vulture City, where he appoints himself sheriff.
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Buster Keaton, Warren Hymer, Dorothy Dix, Roger Moore
Votes: 280
44. One Run Elmer (1935)
Passed | 19 min | Short, Action, Comedy
Elmer owns a gas station out in the California desert. Soon he has a business rival in Jim, who opens up another station, and is also trying to steal Elmer's girlfriend. She plays both ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Buster Keaton, Lona Andre, Dewey Robinson, Harold Goodwin
Votes: 208
45. Coney Island (1917)
TV-G | 25 min | Short, Comedy
Roscoe tries to dump his wife so he can enjoy the beach attractions. Buster arrives with Alice, who is taken away from him by Al, who loses her to Roscoe. Bathing beauties and Keystone Kops abound.
Director: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | Stars: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Joe Bordeaux, Jimmy Bryant
Votes: 1,882
46. Out West (1918)
25 min | Short, Western, Comedy
After escaping from a marauding group of Indians, a wandering bartender teams up with a saloon owner, only to find themselves up against a ruthless outlaw who is after an unprotected Salvation Army girl. Can they beat him at his own game?
Director: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | Stars: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Al St. John, Alice Lake
Votes: 1,250
47. The Bell Boy (1918)
Not Rated | 33 min | Short, Comedy
At the Elk's Head Hotel bellhops torment the lobby, each other and guests. The elevator is powered by a stubborn horse. A sham robbery turns into a real one. And there is a chase on a runaway trolley.
Director: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | Stars: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Al St. John, Alice Lake
Votes: 1,491
48. Mixed Magic (1936)
Not Rated | 18 min | Comedy, Short
A professional magician, "The Great Spumoni", fires his male assistant and his female assistant insists that he hire another one. The young man he hires turns out to have no aptitude whatsoever for a magic act. Complications ensue.
Director: Raymond Kane | Stars: Buster Keaton, Eddie Lambert, Marlyn Stuart, Eddie Hall
Votes: 145
49. Hayseed Romance (1935)
Passed | 19 min | Short, Comedy, Romance
Elmer Doolittle, a hired hand on a farm, encounters some complications in his romancing and believes he will have to marry the farm-owner aunt of Molly, the pretty girl he loves. Further ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Buster Keaton, Jane Jones, Dorothea Kent, Robert McKenzie
Votes: 155
50. Tars and Stripes (1935)
Passed | 20 min | Short, Comedy, Romance
Elmer Doolittle (Buster Keaton), an apprentice seaman doing training at the U. S. Navy's San Diego Training Station, can't seem to keep out of trouble or the brig. Most of his problems ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Buster Keaton, Vernon Dent, Dorothea Kent, Jack Shutta
Votes: 178
51. The E-Flat Man (1935)
Not Rated | 20 min | Comedy, Short
Elmer and his girlfriend run away to elope and spend their trip trying to dodge the police who are on their trail after they mistakenly make their getaway in a police car.
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Buster Keaton, Dorothea Kent, Broderick O'Farrell, Charles McAvoy
Votes: 159
52. Don't Weaken (1920)
Comedy, Short
Snub is a strolling actor who rescues the kidnapped heroine from the gypsies.
Director: Alfred J. Goulding | Stars: 'Snub' Pollard, Marie Mosquini, Ernest Morrison
Votes: 11
53. Along Came Ruth (1933)
20 min | Musical, Short
Director: Joseph Henabery | Stars: Ruth Etting, Charles R. Althoff, Chester Clute, Ruth De Quincey
Votes: 6
54. Casey at the Bat (1922)
TV-G | 6 min | Short
Famous actor DeWolf Hopper (Sr.) recites the poem "Casey at the Bat" by Ernest Lawrence Thayer in an early sound film produced in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.
Director: Lee De Forest | Star: DeWolf Hopper Sr.
Votes: 79
55. A Few Moments with Eddie Cantor, Star of 'Kid Boots' (1923)
Not Rated | 7 min | Comedy, Short, Music
This experimental talking short shows Cantor in his vaudeville act.
Director: Lee De Forest | Star: Eddie Cantor
Votes: 161
56. The Campus Vamp (1928)
19 min | Comedy, Short
Love triangle in a campus with a blonde girl that really seems to not consider the "other" girl as an obstacle. Who will make it? And actually who cares when parties, sport games and lots of fun are available?
Director: Harry Edwards | Stars: Daphne Pollard, Johnny Burke, Sally Eilers, Matty Kemp
Votes: 162
57. President Coolidge, Taken on the White House Grounds (1924)
Not Rated | 4 min | Documentary, Short
The subject of this short film is taxation and tax reform
Director: Lee De Forest | Star: Calvin Coolidge
Votes: 104
58. Ben Bernie and All the Lads (1923)
7 min | Short, Music
The Ben Bernie and All the Lads band, featuring pianist Oscar Levant, perform songs by Vincent Youmans and George Gershwin in a short film produced in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.
Director: Lee De Forest | Stars: Ben Bernie, Oscar Levant
Votes: 22
59. Weber and Fields (1923)
7 min | Short
Vaudeville stars Weber and Fields perform their famous pool hall routine in a short film produced in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.
Director: Lee De Forest | Stars: Lew Fields, Joe Weber
Votes: 11
60. A Mother's Atonement (1915)
Drama, Short
Old Ben Morrison and his daughter, Jen, an unsophisticated girl, live on an island not far from the mainland. Jasper Crane, middle-aged sensualist of the rougher type, bargains with Jen's ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph De Grasse | Stars: Cleo Madison, Lon Chaney, Arthur Shirley, Wyndham Standing
Votes: 26
61. Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake Sing Snappy Songs (1923)
3 min | Documentary, Short, Music
In a rare filmed record, the famed songwriters and vaudevillians perform. One of De Forest's earliest experimental sound films.
Directors: J. Searle Dawley, Lee De Forest | Stars: Noble Sissle, Eubie Blake
Votes: 77
62. Songs of Yesterday (1922)
5 min | Short
Famous African-American singer Abbie Mitchell sings in an early experimental film made in the DeForest Phonofilm process.
Director: Lee De Forest | Star: Abbey Mitchell
63. The Bicycle Flirt (1928)
20 min | Comedy, Short
Director: Harry Edwards | Stars: Billy Bevan, Vernon Dent, Dot Farley, Carole Lombard
Votes: 18
64. Assistant Wives (1927)
20 min | Comedy, Short
A misunderstanding means that Charley's boss Palette visits with the woman from the flapjack stand being taken for Charley's wife.
Director: James Parrott | Stars: Charley Chase, Edna Marion, Anita Garvin, Eugene Pallette
Votes: 11
65. The Timid Young Man (1935)
Approved | 20 min | Comedy, Short
A man who has sworn off women and a woman who has sworn off men must find their budding relationship threatened by aggressive romantic rivals.
Director: Mack Sennett | Stars: Buster Keaton, Lona Andre, Tiny Sandford, Kitty McHugh
Votes: 144
66. Three on a Limb (1936)
Not Rated | 18 min | Comedy, Short
A Scoutmaster falls for a beautiful young carhop, but finds that a beefy traffic cop is also courting her--and he doesn't want any competition.
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Buster Keaton, Lona Andre, Harold Goodwin, Grant Withers
Votes: 149
67. Grand Slam Opera (1936)
Approved | 20 min | Comedy, Short
Elmer Butts is a contestant in a radio amateur hour show hoping to win the first price... by dancing and juggling!
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Buster Keaton, Diana Lewis, Harold Goodwin, John Ince
Votes: 335
68. Blue Blazes (1936)
Not Rated | 17 min | Comedy, Short
Buster becomes a fireman, but unfortunately not a particularly good one. He has a chance to prove himself, however, when three women are trapped in a burning building.
Director: Raymond Kane | Stars: Buster Keaton, Arthur L. Jarrett, Marlyn Stuart, Rose Kessner
Votes: 158
69. The Chemist (1936)
Not Rated | 19 min | Comedy, Short
A chemist's brilliant new concoction makes him a target for gangsters.
Director: Al Christie | Stars: Buster Keaton, Marlyn Stuart, Earle Gilbert, Donald MacBride
Votes: 183
70. Good Night, Nurse! (1918)
26 min | Short, Comedy
Roscoe's wife wants him committed to the No Hope Sanitarium for a cure from drink. He is greeted by blood spattered, cleaver-wielding Buster and a barely clad female patient. He eats a thermometer and must be rushed into surgery.
Director: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | Stars: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Al St. John, Alice Lake
Votes: 1,324
71. Back Stage (1919)
Not Rated | 26 min | Short, Comedy
Working their fingers to the bone to prepare the set for an upcoming performance, the enthusiastic stagehands, Roscoe and Buster, find themselves on stage when the cast quits. However, is will alone enough to earn a big round of applause?
Director: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | Stars: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Al St. John, Charles A. Post
Votes: 1,407
72. The Hayseed (1919)
27 min | Short, Comedy
Buster manages the store while Roscoe delivers the mail, taking time out for hide-and-seek with Molly. The constable, also interested in Molly, steals $300 while being observed by Buster.
Director: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | Stars: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Molly Malone, Jack Coogan Sr.
Votes: 965
73. The Garage (1920)
25 min | Short, Comedy
Roscoe and Buster operate a combination garage and fire station. In the first half they destroy a car left for them to clean. In the second half they go off on a false alarm and return to find their own building on fire.
Director: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | Stars: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Molly Malone, Harry McCoy
Votes: 1,544
74. Two-Lip Time (1926)
10 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Felix chases a mouse onto a ship, gets seasick, and eventually finds himself in Holland. He flirts with a local Dutch girl and angers a local man who hits him in the head with a wooden shoe... See full summary »
Director: Otto Messmer
Votes: 87
75. Man Bites Lovebug (1937)
Approved | 18 min | Comedy, Short
To test his wife, Charley's friend puts him up to making a play for her, but she's on to it and pretends she's fallen for him, infuriating the friend.Charley must stay overnight, and unexpected complications put him in the wife's bedroom.
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Charley Chase, Mary Russell, John T. Murray, Bud Jamison
Votes: 51
76. The Mind Needer (1938)
18 min | Comedy, Short
Charley's memory is so poor he forgets who some people are, and must be told things repeatedly. He mistakes the home next door for his, and takes a bath there.The jealous neighbor thinks he's having an affair with his wife.
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Charley Chase, Ann Doran, Bess Flowers, Beatrice Curtis
Votes: 31
77. Tire Trouble (1924)
20 min | Comedy, Family, Short
The gang invites rich man J. William McAllister to take a ride in their homemade taxi cab. Later, McAllister takes them all to the local amusement park.
Director: Robert F. McGowan | Stars: Joe Cobb, Jackie Condon, Mickey Daniels, Allen 'Farina' Hoskins
Votes: 41
78. Hollywouldn't (1925)
Passed | 20 min | Short, Comedy
A farmer boy, infatuated with a movie queen whose pictures he has thrilled to, arrives in Hollywood to meet her. He is fortunate enough to get a job as extra at the studio where she makes ... See full summary »
Director: Lou Carter | Stars: John Sinclair, Dorothy Dorr, Billy 'Red' Jones, Charles King
80. The Goat (1921)
Not Rated | 23 min | Comedy, Short
A series of adventures begins when an accident during photographing causes Buster to be mistaken for Dead Shot Dan, the local bad guy.
Directors: Buster Keaton, Malcolm St. Clair | Stars: Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts, Malcolm St. Clair
Votes: 4,952
81. Are Waitresses Safe? (1917)
Passed | 20 min | Short, Comedy
Chaos reigns in Louise Fazenda's kitchen as the cat stalks and consumes the bird in the cuckoo clock and the baby paints its face with jam. In her next job in a restaurant kitchen, Louise ... See full summary »
Directors: Hampton Del Ruth, Victor Heerman | Stars: Louise Fazenda, Ben Turpin, Slim Summerville, Glen Cavender
Votes: 17
82. A Thrilling Romance (1926)
20 min | Comedy, Short
An aspiring writer chases after a pair of crooks when her handbag is taken.
Director: Jess Robbins | Stars: Wanda Wiley, Earl McCarthy, Joe Bonner, Al Hallett
Votes: 25
83. Fifty Miles from Broadway (1929)
17 min | Short, Comedy
A dancer on Broadway and her boyfriend take a trip back home only to find that their fathers are in the middle of an angry feud.
Director: Bradley Barker | Stars: Reginald Merville, Harry Watson, Olga Woods, Josephine Fontaine
Votes: 12
84. Of Rice and Hen (1953)
7 min | Family, Animation, Short
Miss Prissy, the slow-witted hen, sets out to land a husband - Foghorn Leghorn, and Barnyard Dog is willing to help her by dressing as a rooster to "rival" Foghorn Leghorn's non-existent ... See full summary »
Director: Robert McKimson | Stars: Mel Blanc, Bea Benaderet
Votes: 259
85. You, the People (1940)
Passed | 21 min | Drama, Short, Crime
This entry in MGM's series of shorts, "Crime Doesn't Pay", features a big city crime boss's attempt to use his political "machine" to fraudulently win re-election for the current corrupt ... See full summary »
Director: Roy Rowland | Stars: C. Henry Gordon, Byron Shores, Paul Everton, Matt McHugh
Votes: 179
86. Respect the Law (1941)
Passed | 20 min | Short, Crime, Drama
Shows how so-called "minor" lawbreakers can do more damage than major criminals.
Director: Joseph M. Newman | Stars: Moroni Olsen, Richard Lane, Frank Orth, William Forrest
Votes: 116
87. Return to Reason (1923)
3 min | Short
Experimental film, white specks and shapes gyrating over a black background, a light-striped torso, a gyrating eggcrate. One of the first Dadaist films.
Director: Man Ray | Star: Kiki of Montparnasse
Votes: 2,201
88. Emak-Bakia (1926)
18 min | Short
A long series of unrelated images, revolving, often distorted: lights, flowers, nails. A lightboard appears from time to time carrying the news of the day. Then, an eye. A woman in a car ... See full summary »
Director: Man Ray | Stars: Kiki of Montparnasse, Jacques Rigaut
Votes: 1,408
89. L'étoile de mer (1928)
21 min | Short, Romance
Two people stand on a road, out of focus. Seen distorted through a glass, they retire upstairs to a bedroom where she undresses. He says, "Adieu." Images: the beautiful girl, a starfish in ... See full summary »
Director: Man Ray | Stars: Kiki of Montparnasse, André de la Rivière, Robert Desnos
Votes: 1,562
90. The Mysteries of the Chateau de De (1929)
27 min | Documentary, Short
Two masked men playing dice in a bar leave, get in a car, and drive to the ruins of a castle on a hill. There. they find a modern chateau filled with contemporary furniture and abstract art. Time to roll the dice.
Director: Man Ray | Stars: Man Ray, Jacques-André Boiffard, Georges Auric, Le Comte de Beaumont
Votes: 723
91. The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra (1928)
Not Rated | 11 min | Short, Drama, Horror
A wannabe movie star experiences the surreal horrors of dehumanization at the bottom of Hollywood's social ladder as his hopes for success vanish and his identity is reduced to a number.
Directors: Robert Florey, Slavko Vorkapich | Stars: Jules Raucourt, Voya George, Robert Florey, Adriane Marsh
Votes: 1,425
92. Ménilmontant (1926)
38 min | Short, Drama
A couple is brutally murdered in the working-class district of Paris. Later on, the narrative follows the lives of their two daughters, both in love with a Parisian thug and leading them to separate ways.
Director: Dimitri Kirsanoff | Stars: Nadia Sibirskaïa, Yolande Beaulieu, Guy Belmont, Jean Pasquier
Votes: 2,733
93. The Craven Sluck (1967)
Not Rated | 20 min | Short, Comedy, Sci-Fi
A desperate, married women meets a mysterious man whom she blatantly desires. Through some twists and turns, things do not go over as well as she seems to wish.
Director: Mike Kuchar | Stars: Floraine Connors, Bob Cowan, George Kuchar, Donna Kerness
Votes: 152
94. Brumes d'automne (1929)
15 min | Short, Drama
A woman--a pained expression on her face--burns letters in a stove.
Director: Dimitri Kirsanoff | Star: Nadia Sibirskaïa
Votes: 699
95. Lot in Sodom (1933)
Not Rated | 28 min | Short, Drama
Lot in Sodom is a sensual depiction of the Sodom and Gomorrah story filled with sinewy and semi-clad bodies, delirious bacchanales devoted to physical pleasure, and a searing, cataclysmic ... See full summary »
Directors: James Sibley Watson, Melville Webber | Stars: Friedrich Haak, Hildegarde Watson, Dorthea House, Lewis Whitbeck
Votes: 699
96. Rhythmus 21 (1921)
3 min | Animation, Short
Black and white rectangular images fade in and out of the screen. Their movement make them sometimes look like they're panning from side to side. Their movement also make the black and ... See full summary »
Director: Hans Richter
Votes: 1,453
97. Ghosts Before Breakfast (1928)
6 min | Short
Hans Richter, noted for his abstract shorts, has everyday objects rebelling against their daily routine.
Director: Hans Richter | Stars: Werner Graeff, Walter Gronostay, Paul Hindemith, Darius Milhaud
Votes: 1,977
98. Coffins on Wheels (1941)
Approved | 17 min | Crime, Short, Drama
Unscrupulous car dealers foist faulty and dangerous cars on an unsuspecting public.
Director: Joseph M. Newman | Stars: Darryl Hickman, Tommy Baker, Allan Lane, Cy Kendall
Votes: 197
99. Sucker List (1941)
Approved | 19 min | Crime, Short, Drama
Mr. Brown and his racketeer buddies, calling their company "Best Selections", come up with a scheme to bilk those already seemingly desperate for money of what little they have. The scheme ... See full summary »
Director: Roy Rowland | Stars: Lynne Carver, Noel Madison, John Archer, George Cleveland
Votes: 148
100. Don't Talk (1942)
Approved | 22 min | Drama, Short
This MGM short, part of the Crime does not Pay series, focuses on industrial sabotage during wartime. After a valuable shipment of manganese is blown up at a plant, the FBI try to find out ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph M. Newman | Stars: Donald Douglas, Gloria Holden, Barry Nelson, Harry Worth
Votes: 291
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