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- DirectorJean-Claude CarrièrePierre ÉtaixStarsAnne-Marie RoyerAnny NelsenPierre ÉtaixWhen a man attempts to reply to a break-up letter from his sweetheart he finds that his stationery is against him.
- DirectorCaroline LeafA traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, wakes up to find himself transformed (metamorphosed) into a large, monstrous insect-like creature.
- DirectorRiley StearnsStarsMandy Olsen CogmanDavey JohnsonSavannah LathemA couple send their young daughter to be raised by a pack of wolves.
- DirectorQuentin TarantinoStarsCraig HamannQuentin TarantinoCrystal Shaw MartellIt's Mickey's Birthday and his girlfriend just left him, so that's when his friend Clarence shows him a birthday he'll never forget.
- DirectorFred GuiolStarsTheda BaraStan LaurelOliver HardyA young man visiting Hollywood on family business gets into trouble when he sees a bank robbery in progress, and thinks it is a movie scene.
- DirectorEdward F. ClineBuster KeatonStarsBuster KeatonBartine BurkettCharles DoretyA drifter at an amusement park finds himself both the bodyguard and hit man of a man targeted by a criminal gang.
- DirectorFred GuiolStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyViola RichardThe Merry Maiden's tough captain sets his sights on the love-smitten Willie Brisling's charming fiancée and kidnaps her. Now, she is a prisoner of love. Will the adulterous sea captain get away with cheating?
- DirectorFred GuiolHal RoachStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyAnita GarvinA con artist (Garvin) and her infant son, are unmasked aboard a ship by a steward (Laurel.)
- DirectorCharley ChaseHarold LawStarsCharley ChaseJoyce ComptonEdwin MaxwellCharley is hired to haunt a house.
- DirectorCharley ChaseHarold LawStarsCharley ChaseJames FinlaysonJoyce ComptonWhen Charley can't pay his bill at a restaurant, he is forced to become a waiter.
- DirectorCharley ChaseEddie DunnStarsCharley ChaseBetty MackBilly GilbertCharley finds that he got more than he bargained for when he takes a job as a kindergarten teacher.
- DirectorCharley ChaseEddie DunnStarsCharley ChaseBetty MackFlorence RobertsCharley is one of four identical brothers, which drives his girlfriend nuts.
- DirectorPierre ÉtaixStarsRoger TrappPrestonRobert BlomeThis short was originally one of the sequences of As Long as You're Healthy, in its 1965 version. In 1971, Pierre Étaix re-edited it to a short feature : Feeling good. In 2010, it was presented in the general reissue of his films.
- DirectorWilliam WatsonStarsLloyd HamiltonRita La RoyMahlon HamiltonEscaped gangster "Nick the Shiek" (Lloyd Hamilton) is a dead ringer for Vernon Snodgrass, (Lloyd Hamilton). Vernon realizes it from seeing a newspaper the same time the police do, and chase him down a street where he ducks into a window that happens to be where Nick's gang is holed up. He tries to fool them that he's their leader, until the real thing shows up. At first he proposes they "Take Him For a Ride", but after seeing a threatening message from rival crime boss "Smokey O'Brien", they turn him loose. Before O'Brien or the cops grab him, Vernon is whisked off by Nick's moll to her apartment, she believing he's Nick. Soon, Nick and his men also show up, and Smokey and his just after that. They have a full scale battle in the apartment, though they seem to be armed exclusively with blackjacks. Vernon finds a box of tear gas bombs and sets them off. The police arrive to break up the fight, and all are reduced to blubbering their lines.
- DirectorHarry EdwardsStarsBilly BevanGeorge BickelLloyd HamiltonA couple unwittingly both invite their fathers to visit on the same day. The problem is, the fathers-in-law detest each other. Hi-jinx ensue.
- DirectorCharley ChaseEddie DunnStarsCharley ChaseBetty MackTommy BondIce-cream vendor Charley gets mixed up with a cute girl and her snotty nephew.
- DirectorCharley ChaseEddie DunnStarsCharley ChaseBetty MackFrank AustinBetty's father has an invention that looks like a fancy camera; it emits an ultra-lavender ray that temporarily rids the ray's target of inhibitions. To test it, Betty's father zaps Charley hoping his newly-aberrant behavior will cause Betty to end her affections for the milquetoast. Dad's plan backfires: the invention works perfectly, Charley gets a backbone, and Betty loves her new forceful man. However, Charley's courage and lack of a superego get him in trouble with the law. He goes on trial for assaulting a bullying police officer. Is Charley going up the river leaving Betty high and dry?
- DirectorCharley ChaseEddie DunnStarsCharley ChaseBetty MackOscar ApfelCharley meets his new boss--who has a lovely daughter.
- DirectorCharley ChaseWalter WeemsStarsCharley ChaseBetty MackDell HendersonTaken to a hospital, after suffering a dizzy spell, Charley is told by a 'nut', posing as a doctor, that he suffers from 'Tetra-Ethyl", and the only remedy is to sit down, relax, clear the mind and recite a nursery rhyme. The fake doctor gives Charley a package to deliver to Mr. Henderson, the "Supreme Crown of the Knights of the Brown Derby." At the hotel, hosting a convention of "Brown Derbies," Charley suffers a dizzy spell and the only place he can find to sit down is in Mr. Henderson's lap, where he recites "Mary Had a Little Lamb." Mr. Henderson, it is revealed, also suffers from "Tetra-Ethyl." Seized by an attack, Henderson sits down and tries to recite "Who Killed Cock Robin," but forgets the lines, which Charley and Henderson's daughter, Betty, sing in a song together. That, coming at the end of the second reel,is all it takes for Charley and Betty to decide to get married.
- DirectorRobert F. McGowanStarsJoe CobbJean DarlingAllen 'Farina' HoskinsThe gang is taken from an orphanage & adopted by society matrons.
- DirectorRobert F. McGowanStarsNorman 'Chubby' ChaneyJoe CobbJean DarlingThe gang gets in trouble at a railroad yard.
- DirectorRobert F. McGowanStarsNorman 'Chubby' ChaneyJoe CobbJean DarlingThe gang enter their little brothers and sisters in a baby contest.
- DirectorEdward BerndsStarsMax BaerMaxie RosenbloomJean WillesIn the third of four shorts in this series, two ex-prizefighters, Max Baer and Maxie Rosenbloom, are hired by an archaeologist, Professor Bentley, to guard a million dollars worth of antiques and relics in his home. During the night, each makes a play for the professor's secretary, Miss Pearson, who is working for a gang of crooks planning to rob the place. She slips them a mickey-finn but they come to soon enough to catch the crooks and save the relics.
- DirectorCharley ChaseStarsCharley ChaseDorothy ApplebyOscar ApfelWhen he learns the secret news that it will be sold today at 4pm in Kansas City, international banker J.P. Anderson sets in motion a plan to purchase the Tippycanoe Tuckahoe & Tehachapi Railroad. He will arrive in Kansas City prior to the meeting with an offer the current owner can't refuse. He will go with his hapless secretary, Charley Chase, with the two switching places - Charley will pretend to be J.P., and J.P. will pretend to be Charley - so that J.P. can maneuver into the deal without attracting the attention of the other buyer who may want to kill him. They will take the TT&T train for the trip. Complications ensue when a series of events happen on the train. First, Charley passes himself off as the railroad owner to train employees even before they arrive at the meeting. Second, J.P.'s daughter Dorothy arrives on the scene, Charley who has to pretend to be her father when in reality he is in love with her. Third, Charley's banker's hat, which is really a magician's hat, displays its full magical capabilities. Fourth, they learn about their estimated time of arrival into Kansas City. And fifth, telegrams to J.P. and Charley respectively get crossed between the two.
- DirectorCharley ChaseStarsCharley ChaseDorothy ApplebyDorothy GrangerA woman (Dorothy Granger) thinks through a series of misunderstandings thinks Charley is flirting with her. She later comes to the Chase home (she is Dorothy's friend) and more misunderstandings ensue.
- DirectorCharley ChaseStarsCharley ChaseBetty MackRuthelma StevensIn order to get out of his boss's doghouse, Charley pairs his troublesome sister-in-law with an important client and inevitable complications result.
- DirectorRobert A. McGowanStarsNorman 'Chubby' ChaneyJoe CobbJean DarlingHarry and Farina promote a boxing match between Joe and Chubby.
- DirectorCharley ChaseWilliam H. TerhuneStarsCharley ChaseJeanie RobertsConstance BergenCharley Chase, a stockbroker, gets rich by mistake, has parking trouble, then at home finds his wife Toots seeing a psychic who apparently causes husband and wife to switch bodies!