William Hauber

The Love Thief

A Keystone comedy of rival suitors fighting over a girl.

Two criminals chase a plainclothes policeman who, while taking out his dog, witnesses their crime.

Avery DuPoys is a wealthy businessman, organising a race. He meets one of the competitors of the race, who is in love with DuPoys's daughter. Another...

Moving Picture World categorized the film as “a nonsense number”, but Normand's Won in a Closet, her second as director, displays her...

Comedy on the golf links.

Larry and his wife are desperately poor—with no food. However, the butcher and grocer show up to collect money they are owed and they won't...

Larry has to fight off a bunch of crooks who are after his bag of jewels.

When Fatty Arbuckle accidentally hits on the rajah, he declares, "Death to all flirts!" and hijinks ensue.

Fatty's Finish is a 1914 comedy short.

Larry having to go through a lot of trouble to get his girl. All from bomb baking cooks to high flying crashes.

A Pair of Kings is a 1922 American silent comedy film featuring Larry Semon & Oliver Hardy.

Young and beautiful Iva Method is spying for the police at the Dropem Inn, a sleazy club that the police suspect is a front for a bootlegging...

An amusing burlesque of gang fighters. The police go after them, one by one, and each guardian of the peace is caught and despoiled of his clothing...

This early Keystone has Pete spying on his neighbor's wife through one of those little knotholes in a fence. The neighbor (Sterling) notices and...

Willy is a rather effeminate young man, and is abused by the town bully. He suspects that the bully is a coward at heart, so disguises himself as a...

Two rivals for Mabel's hand play a series of dirty tricks on each other. Finally, one of them gets Mabel alone and is about to marry her, but his...

Rastus and the Game Cock is a 1913 movie starring Ford Sterling and Mack Sennett.

Love and Rubbish is a 1913 movie starring Ford Sterling and Charles Avery.

Mabel and Roscoe love each other, but her father likes another boy. A rather sissified young man. Roscoe and Mabel stages an accident.

When a girl delivering expensive garments loses them to some Irish shanty town kids, her boss, a Jewish clothier, is livid and a fight breaks out....

Fatty's Day Off is a 1913 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Charles Avery.

A young man falls in love with his mother's kitchen maid, Mabel. But his mother objects strongly, and arranges for him to meet another young woman...

The Fatal Taxicab is a 1913 movie starring Mabel Normand and Ford Sterling.

Mother's Boy is a 1913 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Alice Davenport.

The scene is laid for a quiet little wedding. The guests are waiting for Fatty and an ancient maid to be made one. Fatty's rival appears and breaks...

Fatty rescues the daughter of the police commisioner and is given a job as an officer as a reward, but its not all its cracked up to be!

Fatty's Flirtation is a 1913 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Mabel Normand.

In a dance hall, two members of the orchestra and a tipsy dancer fight over the hat check girl.

A very plastered fella follows a pretty woman home, and proceeds to make a nuisance of himself.

The Chicken Chaser is a 1914 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Charles Avery.

A man goes fishing in the same pond where a burglar has thrown a sock of money stolen from the man's house.

Mr. Walrus needs a turkey for Thanksgiving dinner with his in-laws but his plans keep going awry.

Cobbler Meyer puts Limburger cheese in the shoes of grocer Schnitz to sabotage his attendance with Mabel at a house party.

Jim, the apple of his mother's eyes, is the big-hearted galoot of a man and is sheriff of his small town. He is sweet on Nell, who he has known all...

The Tramp, a film Johnnie (someone who loiters near theaters or studios to meet stars or get a job), attempts to meet his favorite movie actress at...

This early Chaplin film has him playing a character quite different from the Tramp for which he would become famous. He is a rich, upper-class...

Mabel and her beau go to an auto race and are joined by Charlie and his friend. As Charlie's friend is attempting to enter the raceway through a...

Charlie and his partner are to deliver a piano to 666 Prospect St. and repossess one from 999 Prospect St.

Charlie takes care of a man in a wheelchair.

A villain, competing with his rival's race car, kidnaps the rival before the race. Mabel decides to take the wheel in his place.

Mabel tries to sell hot dogs at a car race, but isn't doing a very good job at it. She sets down the box of hot dogs and leaves them for a moment....

A tramp gets drunk in a hotel lobby and, upstairs, causes some misunderstandings between Mabel, two hotel guests across the hall from her room, and...

Charlie and a rival vie for the favor of their landlady.

A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country. When he sees that her father has a very large bankroll for his workers, he persuades her to elope...

Fatty and Mabel go to the San Diego Exposition.

A happy young couple become engaged, and soon afterwards they are married. But after their marriage, the husband begins to stay out carousing with...

Larry's absurdly plush life of ease as a convict comes to an end when his sentence is up. Tossed out, he tries several ways, including a stickup to...

Larry going investigating an Oriental opium den. And opium is to Larry what spinach is for Popeye!

Lay Zee works on a farm and has won the heart of the farmer's daughter. There is oil on the farmland, and some swindlers are determined to get their...

Mae Busch and Charley Chase are in love. However, her father does not approve. A Baron sees Mae and concocts a fake kidnapping in order to get her...

A flustered father seeks a cook for his kitchen, his daughter seeks to elope and a pair of crooks seek to get some loot. Add the Keystone Cops and...

Mabel has two suitors - an oily con man, whom she mocks in a very funny scene where she is shown twiddling a fake moustache and making her feelings...

A government official staying in a hotel puts some important secret papers in the hotel safe. A ring of spies out to get the papers manages to steal...

A Keystone comedy with Charley Chase and the gang.

Larry helps a girl escape her wedding to a fat man.

Larry Semon is in the kitchen preparing food for a high society musical evening.

A farm girl learns she is a princess and is swept away by a tornado to the land of Oz.

A boy pines for the girl next door to the dismay of both their parents.

The Midnight Taxi is a 1928 early part-talkie thriller picture from Warner Bros. directed by John G. Adolfi and starring Antonio Moreno, Helen...

Mabel is pursued by her boss, despite being engaged to his son, in this gender-bending comedy of errors and mistaken identities.

Larry Semon goes out west.

A comedy made by Keystone Studios starring Charlie Chaplin and Mabel Normand, both of whom co-directed the movie. This is Chaplin's only lost film as...

Bears and Bad Men is a 1918 silent comedy film directed by Larry Semon[1] and featuring Stan Laurel.

The Rent Collector is a 1921 American silent comedy film featuring Larry Semon & Oliver Hardy.

Well-meaning but accident-prone bakery employee Larry is involved in numerous slapstick mishaps on the job. After accidentally causing the bakery...

Larry falls afoul of wanted criminal Gentleman Joe, who runs a saloon full of tough guys and gunslingers.

A harried propman backstage at a theater must put up with malfunctioning wind machines, roosters that spit nitroglycerine, and a gang planning to rob...

The Water Dog is a 1914 American short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle.

The storm, which takes up most of the second reel, is a trial run for the storm sequence in The Wizard Of Oz which Semon would make in 1925. Fox...

A bumbling sawmill employee tries to win the hand of the owner's daughter while staying out of the clutches of the mill's bullying foreman.

A harried propman backstage at a theater must put up with malfunctioning wind machines, roosters that spit nitroglycerine, and a gang planning to rob...

A farm girl learns she is a princess and is swept away by a tornado to the land of Oz.

A government official staying in a hotel puts some important secret papers in the hotel safe. A ring of spies out to get the papers manages to steal...