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- DirectorsMort PeeblesLarry SemonNorman TaurogStarsLarry SemonLucille CarlisleFrank AlexanderA policeman investigates a gang of camouflaged dealers in a restaurant.
- DirectorsMort PeeblesLarry SemonNorman TaurogStarsLarry SemonFrank AlexanderLucille CarlisleLarry's the dupe in the school classroom when all the hi jinx are blamed on him. When he falls asleep and dreams his pals are grown up and working on a farm, he doesn't make out much better.
- DirectorsLarry SemonNorman TaurogStarsLarry SemonLucille CarlisleFrank AlexanderLarry, the stage hand, invariably is missing when there is work to be done. But when he's missing things run smoothly. Inadvertently, the rug is unrolled, on the stage and he appears, the stage manager loses control of himself and upsets Larry and everything else, including a can of gun powder which he is gallant enough to carry for the leading lady to her dressing room. The stage hand disobeys the rules of the house and lights a cigarette, dropping the match in the string of gunpowder. The explosion eliminates the seat of the stage manager's ample trousers. Striving to change to another pair he rushes into the dressing room of the chorus, from which he is rapidly thrown out - out onto the stage in his checkered lingerie. To escape his retaliation Larry nails the manager down the basement, but opens a stage trap by accident. The primadonna in the midst of her act is precipitated from the stage down into a cask of black paint. Larry seeks safety in the loft from which altitude he manages to ruin all the acts on the bill. When the star calls for artificial fog, he gives him a barrel full of it and wrecks the show. They all strive to get after him, but Larry comes out victor as the picture fades.
- DirectorsLarry SemonNorman TaurogStarsLarry SemonLucille CarlisleFrank AlexanderLarry suspects that Millionaire Manybucks has some well defined reason for not wanting him to marry his daughter, inasmuch as the staff of the household has met him with uninterrupted violence. After skidding on his nose down the stone steps Larry realizes that no one, save the girl, craves his company. However, he is determined and braves the house again only to suffer ignominious defeat. A brilliant reception is to be held for the daughter. The Lizard, a polished adventurer, with whom most of the household help are in league, aims to attend and win the girl. At the affair, which is a magnificent spectacle, the girl and her father scorn him. Indignant, he orders his aids to destroy the father, A cigar loaded with T.N.T. is given the father, who does not smoke it, tut tosses it out the window where Larry finds it and has it taken away from him by a policeman. The officers smokes it and it completely disrobes the officer. This failing, the biscuits are laden with explosives and with these and the heiress' playful monkey much havoc is wrought. The villains dash through the house to steal the heiress. The momentum hurls them through the upper windows into a fountain in the garden. The police hold a net for the heroine. Before Larry can follow her the net is removed and he is forced to land on his nose. The major-domo follows him in flight and Larry sees his heiress kidnapped by airplane by the Lizard, He leaps aboard a motorcycle, catches a rope ladder dangling from the aircraft and disables the machine a thousand feet above the ground. The heiress and himself drop to earth in parachutes. The air plane makes a nose dive and is wrecked with the villain, Larry takes the propeller and drives his rival into the ground. He wins the heiress with this last bold stroke.
- DirectorsLarry SemonNorman TaurogStarsLarry SemonLucille CarlisleAl ThompsonLarry is a mighty hunter, unafraid of rabbits, canaries and field mice, and also quite unafraid of the hundred-off wives of the Sultan, but he reverts to Semonesque agility when a half dozen lions are let loose in the conservatory.
- DirectorsLarry SemonNorman TaurogStarsLarry SemonMarion AyeJack DuffyA small town hick falls in love with a beautiful farmers daughter but her father opposes their marriage.
- DirectorsLarry SemonNorman TaurogStarsLarry SemonOliver HardyFrank AlexanderWell-meaning but accident-prone bakery employee Larry is involved in numerous slapstick mishaps on the job. After accidentally causing the bakery owner to fall into a vat of cake batter Larry finds his job in jeopardy, but he redeems himself by foiling a robbery planned by the bakery foreman.
- DirectorsLarry SemonNorman TaurogStarsLarry SemonNorma NicholsOliver HardyLarry Semons is sent to collect unpaid rent in a rough neighborhood where "Babe" Hardy as the local boss won't give up easily.
- DirectorsLarry SemonNorman TaurogStarsLarry SemonNorma NicholsOliver HardyLarry falls afoul of wanted criminal Gentleman Joe, who runs a saloon full of tough guys and gunslingers.
- DirectorsLarry SemonNorman TaurogStarsLarry SemonOliver HardyFrank AlexanderA 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 them from the safe, and a lady government agent enlists the help of the hotel's bumbling bellhop in getting back the papers and breaking up the spy ring.
- DirectorsLarry SemonNorman TaurogStarsOliver HardyLarry SemonFrank AlexanderA 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.
- DirectorsLarry SemonNorman TaurogStarsLarry SemonOliver HardyFrank AlexanderA harried propman backstage at a theater must put up with malfunctioning wind machines, roosters that spit nitroglycerine, and a gang planning to rob the theater's payroll.
- DirectorsLarry SemonNorman TaurogStarsLarry SemonLucille CarlisleOliver HardyThe 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 the plotters and after smashing numerous vases over their heads and dumping them into a cistern beneath the palace, he is knighted by the newly crowned queen.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsJohnny FoxEna GregoryBlanche PaysonBecause his modest goat cart can't compete with the village dude's baby automobile, he loses his pretty sweetheart. He encounters the sheriff after stealing some flowers, but manages to lose him by a cunning ruse. How he catches his sister's beau who has robbed a safe, and how his bravery wins back the affections of his girl is the rest of the story.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsJoe RockBillie RhodesFrank AlexanderA tailor employs a dog to tear men's clothes, so as to increase his business. He tries this stunt on a Moorish prince to his sorrow and the feud grows as they both fall in love with the same girl. The Prince lures the tailor into a dungeon where gruesome shapes appear. By rubbing the lamp he escapes only to go through more wild adventures until he wins the girl.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarJoe RobertsA penniless Count travels in society.
- DirectorNorman TaurogThe owner of one of the oldest automobiles in existence, after many mix-ups, collides with a telegraph pole. He is knocked out and dreams that a couple of thieves plan to steal an Egyptian mummy belonging to his sweetheart's father. He takes the place of the real mummy and the resultant complications will bring a good many laughs.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsJoe MurphyFay TincherJack MorganAndy pays five thousand dollars received from Uncle Bim to a real estate shark for a home that belongs to some one else.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsJoe MurphyFay TincherJack MorganAndy, Min and little Chester are getting ready to go to Shady Rest for an outing.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsLige ConleyLillian HackettCliff BowesThe winner of a polo match will get the hand of Maxine, the president of the polo club. Hector, the hero, is in love with Maxine, but what he knows about polo wouldn't get him a diploma.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsJoe MurphyFay TincherJack Morganthe Gump clan, Andy, Bim, Min and Chester, start at a hotel, where dreaming of a seashore, Andy high dives through the floor into the lobby. They drive to the ocean, where Andy does sinks his boat while fishing. Then they go to an amusement park, where a bumper-car mishap casts Andy through the air and into a roller coaster ride.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsCliff BowesVirginia VanceMark JonesCliff is the chief fire-fighter in a force which is notorious for not interfering with fires.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsCliff BowesVirginia VanceLige ConleyCliff is an orderly at a sanitarium and gets into all kinds of scrapes, is fired and returns in disguise to be near his sweetheart, the head nurse.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsCliff BowesVirginia VanceEarl MontgomeryCliff wanted to get into the movies in the worst way and so has become an assistant to the head property man.