|
Director
|
1951
|
|
|
Director
|
1948
|
Set in wartime (WW II), this film finds the fat guy, skinny guy comedy duo not much good at any attempted professions; they...
|
Director
|
1943
|
In this comedy of mistaken identity, a bookish literary reviewer bows to the desires of his lover and shaves off his...
|
Director
|
1940
|
The zippy world of auto-racing provided the basis of this off-beat actioner that centers on an auto magnate who is...
|
Director
|
1939
|
Though Joe E. Brown's starring vehicles of the late 1930s-early 1940s were on the whole decidedly inferior to his earlier...
|
Director
|
1939
|
|
|
Director, Producer
|
1938
|
In this romantic comedy, a rookie reporter works for his uncle's newspaper and gets assigned to write a story about an...
|
Director
|
1937
|
Film collectors take note: Hal Roach's Pick a Star is not a Laurel and Hardy picture, though the popular comic duo does make...
|
Director
|
1937
|
|
|
Director
|
1937
|
Hotel barber Joe Jenkins (Jack Haley), who's obsessed with newspaper stories about high-society celebrities, is dragooned...
|
Director
|
1936
|
Having gained considerable audience attention for his appearance in the 1935 "Crime Does Not Pay" 2-reeler Buried Loot, new...
|
Director
|
1935
|
Vaudeville humorist Walter C. Kelley, who toured for years as "The Virginia Judge," repeated the characterization in this...
|
Director
|
1935
|
G.K. Chesterton's crime-solving cleric Father Brown was first brought to the screen in 1934, in the corpulent form of...
|
Director, Producer
|
1935
|
In this comedy, two impoverished cousins inherit a British mansion and decide that one of them should marry a wealthy...
|
Director
|
1934
|
Based on a novel by Cortland Fitzsimmons, the storyline of this "gimmick" mystery follows the St. Louis Cardinals during a...
|
Director
|
1934
|
|
|
Director
|
1934
|
|
|
Director
|
1934
|
In this comedy, Jimmy Potts (Jimmy Durante) and Elmer J. Butts (Buster Keaton, Jr.) come up with a scheme to start up a beer...
|
Director
|
1933
|
Young football hero Jim Fowler (Robert Young) isn't in it for the love of the game. The hardworking young man is simply using...
|
Director
|
1933
|
In this comedy, two rubes from Montana find a fortune after they discover radium on their ranch. The nouveau riche ranchers...
|
Director
|
1933
|
Buster Keaton's best sound feature casts the Great Stone Face as Professor Post, a naïve college pedant who mistakenly...
|
Director
|
1932
|
|
|
Director
|
1932
|
Based on the stage comedy by Charles W. Bell and Mark Swan (previously filmed in 1920), Parlor, Bedroom and Bath is a curious...
|
Director
|
1931
|
Two rough-and-ready guys; one beautiful dame; a tough job that has to be done, and "one of us may not come out alive"; the...
|
Director
|
1931
|
A truly jaw-dropping experience, Makers of Men is an unabashed celebration of Conditional Love. Jack Holt plays Dudley, a...
|
Director
|
1931
|
Buster Keaton's second starring talkie finds him cast as wealthy, pampered Elmer, who heads down to the local employment...
|
Director, Songwriter
|
1930
|
|
|
Director, Producer
|
1930
|
|
|
Director, Producer
|
1929
|
This is one of the last films from Buster Keaton's classic period, before the coming of sound and interference from MGM...
|
Director
|
1928
|
|
Director
|
1928
|
|
|
Director
|
1928
|
One of the most popular baseball films ever made, Slide, Kelly, Slide also solidified the stardom of MGM leading man...
|
Director
|
1927
|
|
|
Director
|
1927
|
Another of William Haines' sports-oriented vehicles, Spring Fever casts the star as lowly shipping clerk Jack Kelly. Falling...
|
Director
|
1927
|
Writer Frank Spearman was famous for his railroad stories, so Universal was wise to use one of them (The Nerve of Foley) to...
|
Director
|
1926
|
Marking the 50th anniversary of General George Armstrong Custer's famous defeat at Little Big Horn, Universal re-created the...
|
Director, Screen Story
|
1926
|
Dashing Norman Kerry wasn't exactly what one would call a "cowboy" type, but that didn't stop his home studio of Universal...
|
Director, Screen Story
|
1926
|
The fact that the advertising posters for Tin Hats were designed by John Held Jr. is the most memorable aspect of this minor...
|
Director, Screen Story
|
1926
|
Silent screen cowboy Hoot Gibson handled situation comedy better than any of his rivals, with the possible exception of...
|
Director
|
1925
|
Patsy Ruth Miller plays a female Tarzan in this adventure drama. When John Livingstone marries a circus performer, his father...
|
Director
|
1925
|
Two popular genres merged in this above-average silent comedy-drama: the western and the haunted-house farce. Universal's...
|
Screen Story
|
1925
|
Jack Hoxie's final Western for 1925 featured Universal's second most popular cowboy hero (after Hoot Gibson) chasing a wanted...
|
Director
|
1925
|
Silent western star Hoot Gibson enjoyed showing off his rodeo skills in his westerns. This time, he mistakenly assumes he...
|
Director
|
1925
|
The always entertaining Hoot Gibson starred in this unusual silent western in which the hero saves the fire chief's daughter...
|
Director
|
1924
|
Pulp writer Henry Herbert Knibb wrote the original story of this silent Hoot Gibson western, which enjoyed an above-average...
|
Director
|
1924
|
|
|
Director
|
1924
|
Hoot Gibson trades in his cowboy hat for a baseball bat in this comedy-drama. After an argument with the team's manager,...
|
Director
|
1924
|
An unpolished Westerner once again finds himself a fish out of water on the Great White Way in this pleasant silent...
|
Director, Screenwriter
|
1924
|
Universal's top western ace Hoot Gibson enjoyed fine support from another of the studio's sagebrush stars -- cowgirl...
|
Director
|
1924
|
Universal lined up several players not necessarily known for their riding capabilities in this lighthearted Hoot Gibson...
|
Director, Screenwriter
|
1924
|
|
|
Director, Screen Story
|
1923
|
This Western features all the usual Universal Studios suspects: Frank Mayo as the manly hero, Philo McCullough as the slimy...
|
Director
|
1923
|
Hoot Gibson takes off his cowboy gear and dons a naval uniform in this comedy-drama. Sam Pertune (Gibson) is in love with Mae...
|
Director, Screen Story, Screenwriter
|
1923
|
Although portraying a doughboy in this comedy-adventure seems like a stretch for cowboy star Hoot Gibson, it really isn't --...
|
Director
|
1923
|
Universal star Hoot Gibson loved playing the shy, country bumpkin who gets the girl despite seemingly insurmountable odds. He...
|
Director
|
1923
|
Universal showed off their impressive back lot in this comedy-western starring Hoot Gibson as a cowboy turned movie...
|
Director
|
1923
|
Less a western than an attempt by Tom Mix to emulate Will Rogers, this silent action comedy features the star donning a suit...
|
Director
|
1923
|
Based on a magazine serial by Gene Markey, this film was turned into a perfect vehicle for Universal's lackadaisical cowboy...
|
Director, Screenwriter
|
1923
|
Universal's premiere cowboy star of the 1920s, Hoot Gibson, was in fine form in this pleasant comedy-oater directed by the...
|
Director, Screen Story
|
1923
|
Chasing the Moon is a nonstop silent precursor to the classic talkie melodrama D.O.A. Tom Mix, in mufti rather than his...
|
Director
|
1922
|
When trade paper Motion Picture News said, "As a comedian, Tom Mix is a good tragedian," it's clear he was in trouble with...
|
Director, Screenwriter
|
1922
|
The Fox Studios promoted Johnnie Walker and Edna Murphy to star status in this college days/thriller hybrid. Bob Harding...
|
Director
|
1921
|
Based on a popular French novel and the 1913 serial Fantômas starring René Navarre, this chapterplay featured character actor...
|
Director, Screenwriter
|
1921
|
Cowboy star Tom Mix wasn't afraid of playing for laughs, or even straying from the usual Western fare. Here he spoofs the...
|
Director
|
1921
|
Duke Travis (Buck Jones) is the new foreman on a ranch run by pretty Bess Lynne (Ruth Renick) and her brother...
|
Director
|
1921
|
The only surprise in putting athletic actor George Walsh in a college picture is that it took his studio, Fox, so long to do...
|
Screenwriter
|
1919
|
|
|
Screenwriter
|
1918
|