Author Archive: Retro

After Conklin aka Walrus has been shot, Ambrose, played by Swain, takes him into his house. Ambrose leaves after witnessing Walrus flirting with his wife. The two lovebirds run away. The cops, along with Ambrose, are on the hunt for Walrus. There are several laughs throughout the short running time, especially scenes of Walrus revealing his affections for the wife and the climax on the bridge.

A mild mannered man’s trials and problems with his domineering wife and mother-in-law result in complications with the law. The henpecked husband sneaks off with the family Ford so he can entertain his stenographer. Meanwhile, the wife and her mother believe that it was stolen. This results in a typical Keystone chase, with the Kops in frantic pursuit, which ends in inevitable wreck. The husband insists on going to jail than going home to his quarrelsome wife. FUN SHORT!

Thermosa, the Isle of Roquefort and Razzamatazz are neighboring kingdoms. The Prince of Razzamatazz is in America cavorting with Verona Vermuth when he receives word from his father via his tutor/bodyguard that Princess Florelle of Thermosa will be choosing the coveted role of her prince, it between him and the Prince of Roquefort, and that he is to appear before the Royal Court of Thermosa immediately for such purpose. Not wanting to abandon the fun he is having in America, the Prince of Razzamatazz instead sends an American bookseller he meets to take his place at the Royal Court, as the two have a striking physical resemblance to each other and thus the American could easily masquerade as him. Although not very good at selling books, the American has no shortage of verve. That verve, unprincely in nature, causes one potentially disastrous international incident after another at the Royal Court, which is further complicated when [...]

Suburban neighbors (Lloyd and Pollard) join together to build a garden shed, but through carelessness, wind up ruining the garden, as well as the laundry, which is drying in the yard. Further mayhem ensues when chickens are set loose.

A tipsy doctor encounters his patient sleepwalking on a building ledge, high above the street.

After a wild bachelor party, our hero finds himself aboard a sailing vessel where he encounters numerous adventures. In a dream sequence, he fantasizes that the ship is seized by a band of female pirates.

A mild-mannered young man has left home, and is now playing the piano in a bar in the west. The dangerous criminal Dagger-Tooth Dan enters the bar where the young man is playing. Soon afterwards, the local sheriff also arrives, with some letters that he has received. Dan notices the letters, and he switches the information in them to make the sheriff think that the piano player is the dangerous one.

Working in different offices in the same commercial high rise building, twenty-one year old Harold and eighteen year old Mildred more often think about being together than they do about their work. They being close to each other on a day-to-day basis is threatened when her boss, osteopathic specialist Dr. Frank Gary, lays her off due to lack of patients. To save his romance, Harold goes on a quest for all who he deems the weak boned or muscled people he can find on the street below their building. And if they aren’t weak to begin with, he tries to show them that they are by any means possible. Harold’s efforts have some unintended consequences which may threaten his relationship with Mildred,… or so he mistakenly believes, which could lead to some other drastic action.

Our hero saves a man from drowning, only to find that it is the wrong man.