Author Archive: Retro

Edgar decides to do a home plumbing job himself.

Basically it’s about a dude who is a Barbour but he is blind and each people in line will Coe

A nervy young man follows a pretty lady into a diner to flirt with her, but winds up getting stuck with the tab.

Roscoe, his wife and his mother-in-law run a seaside resort. Buster plays a gardener who puts out a fire started by Roscoe, then a delivery boy who fights with the cook St. John, then a cop.

Musty works in an automat where the customers steal food using slugs and reaching through the vending doors. Musty smashes them over the head with a mallet, and dumps the bodies down a chute to what appears to be a sausage processor.

All that survives of Marcel Perez’ last screen performance is a two-minute fragment of him dealing — unsuccessfully — with a toothache. After this, he couldn’t act any more. He worked as a director and gag man, and died before the silent era ended, his legacy scattered and lost.

Henry Aldrich swallows a serum by accident and ends up in a “haunted” house.