Public Domain Movies
Running Time: 19 mins Black & White
Starring: Edgar Kennedy, Sally Payne, Jack Rice
Edgar decides the 4th of July fireworks celebration in town is too much for his nerves, and he and his wife Sally and her brother will take a nice drive out into the countryside and have a nice, peaceful picnic. His first mistake is inviting the sons of his neighbor to go with them, and his second is picking an Army artillery firing range as the location of the picnic.
Running Time: 16 mins Black & White
Starring: Edgar Kennedy, Vivien Oakland, Billy Franey
Pop's noisy mechanical clock is driving Edgar crazy.
Running Time: 18 mins Black & White
Starring: Edgar Kennedy, Florence Lake, Billy Franey
In a misguided effort to get a raise and promotion from his boss, Edgar Kennedy's wife and her father talk him into leasing a swank house and putting on the ritz. A valet comes with the house and he spends a lot of time trying to soften Kennedy;s rough edges, but when he becomes to insistent about giving his master a bath, the always-irritable Kennedy throws the valet in the hot tub, clothes and all. Meanwhile, his father-in-law has been putting the squeeze on Edgar's boss, telling him that Edsgar has fallen heir to so much money he is going to buy out the business and fire his boss. So the boss comes to Edgars's home and fires him.
Running Time: 18 mins Black & White
Starring: Edgar Kennedy, Vivien Oakland, Charlie Hall
Edgar tries his hand at making pies for Vivien's charity bazaar with predictable results.
Running Time: 19 mins Black & White
Starring: Edgar Kennedy, Florence Lake, Dot Farley
Running Time: 18 mins Black & White
Starring: Edgar Kennedy, Florence Lake, Jack Rice
Edgar's boss gives him a few days off as a reward for being promoted. His wife, Florence (Florence Lake), mother-in-law (Dot Farley) and brother-in-law (Jack Rice), think he has been fired for being too fat and, over his fruitless objections, put him on a strenuous reducing program that nearly kills him.
Running Time: 68 min Black & White
Starring: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx
Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.
Running Time: 18 mins Black & White
Starring: Edgar Kennedy, Vivien Oakland, Billy Franey
Edgar discovers a cache of gold coins in his attic but is intimidated by hose painter Billy Franey into sharing his illegal stash.
Running Time: 17 mins Black & White
Starring: Edgar Kennedy, Irene Ryan, Dot Farley
When his wife threatens to leave him because of his notoriously bad temper, Edgar promises that there will be no more tantrums.
Running Time: 17 mins Black & White
Starring: Edgar Kennedy, Sally Payne, Jack Rice
Edgar decides to do a home plumbing job himself.
Running Time: 17 mins Black & White
Starring: Edgar Kennedy, Sally Payne, Jack Rice
Running Time: 18 mins Black & White
Starring: Edgar Kennedy, Vivien Oakland, Billy Franey
Running Time: 20 mins Black & White
Starring: Edgar Kennedy, Florence Lake, Dot Farley
Running Time: 22 mins Black & White
Starring: Edgar Kennedy, Pert Kelton, Franklin Pangborn
Song composer Howard Green is frustrated by disturbances his wife, in-laws, and landlord while writing his latest song.
Running Time: 16 mins Black & White
Starring: Edgar Kennedy, Pauline Drake, Dot Farley
Edgar is running for county supervisor against his mother-in-law. Edgar, whose campaign is going nowhere, decides to try some dirty-tricks style tactics, such as turning mice loose at a ladies' meeting and even pulling a disappearing act to hype his bid but, as usual, everything backfires on him.
Running Time: 18 mins Black & White
Starring: Edgar Kennedy, Florence Lake, Dot Farley
After the family leaves for a trip, Edgar rents out the apartment to a troublemaker who likes to throw wild parties.
Running Time: 18 mins Black & White
Starring: Edgar Kennedy, Florence Lake, Jack Rice
Edgar Kennedy has two problems going at once; a feud with a neighboring singer, and a landlord trying to evict Edgar and his family. That Edgar will worsen both situations is a slow-burn foregone conclusion.
Running Time: 18 mins Black & White
Starring: Edgar Kennedy, Fern Emmett, Si Jenks
Running Time: 16 mins Black & White
Starring: Edgar Kennedy, Vivien Oakland, Billy Franey
While driving in town a husband almost runs over a tramp. Feeling sorry for him, the husband brings the man home with him to help him get back on his feet. The tramp soon pretty much takes over the whole house--and not only that, but he starts getting all of his tramp friends over to "visit".
Running Time: 21 mins Black & White
Starring: Edgar Kennedy
Running Time: 16 mins Black & White
Starring: Edgar Kennedy, Sally Payne, Jack Rice
Edgar, his wife and his brother-in-law are riding through the desert in a convertible to see a restaurant that Edgar has purchased sight unseen. They camp in a ghost town and Edgar sees a "Gold Nugget Restaurant" sign and it dawns on him that is his purchase. Inside, Edgar runs into two outlaws who force him to drive them to the next town. Unknown to Edgar, Sally lassos the renegades out of the back seat, while Edgar drives on in his (usual) blissful state of ignorance.
Running Time: 16 mins Black & White
Starring: Edgar Kennedy, Florence Lake, Kitty McHugh
Edgar decides on a plan to get his freeloading slacker of a brother-in-law, who hasn't worked in four years, to get a job by faking a heart attack.
Running Time: 17 mins Black & White
Starring: Edgar Kennedy, Pauline Drake, Dot Farley
Edgar Kennedy, in order to attend a prizefight without his brother-in-law, pretends to be sick with intentions of sneaking off later. As usual, his best-laid plan takes another direction. His mother-in-law gives him a foot bath in a tub with what turns out to be quick-setting cement. His pal Sam drills a hole in the cement to blow the cement off with explosives, with a typical-Kennedy result... disaster.
Running Time: 17 mins Black & White
Starring: Edgar Kennedy, Florence Lake, Dot Farley
Edgar's landlord wants to sell the house Edgar is renting. He has to come up with the money in two weeks or the landlord will sell it out from under him.
Running Time: 18 mins Black & White
Starring: Edgar Kennedy, Florence Lake, Jack Rice
Edgar learns that an old, rich, oil-man flame (Tom Kennedy) of his mother-in-law (Dot Farley) is coming to claim his bride. Meanwhile, his brother-in-law (Jack Rice) has bought an interest in an outboard motor that is supposed to run all day on a cupful of gas. The suitor says he will finance it if the test is a success. Edgar is accidently pulled into the lake with the motor and it works well, but the "rich" beau says he will finance it as soon as he can find somebody to finance the drilling of his first oil well.
Running Time: 18 mins Black & White
Starring: Edgar Kennedy, Vivien Oakland, Billy Franey
Edgar is a census taker, but is primarily interested in finding a rich widow for his father-in-law (Billy Franey), so he won't have to continue to support him. All Pop wants to make him happy is a cow. When Edgar comes home with both a cow and a phony rich widow, the results are not what Edgar planned for.
Running Time: 8 mins Black & White
Starring: Edgar Kennedy
Running Time: 18 mins Black & White
Starring: Edgar Kennedy, Florence Lake, Jack Rice
Edgar's brother-in-law persuades Edgar to indulge in a little betting at the race track, and Edgar loses $900. While entertaining a banker to get on a loan, for a supposed worthy purpose, the bookie's henchman shows up demanding to be paid.
Running Time: 17 mins Black & White
Starring: Edgar Kennedy, Florence Lake, Jack Rice
Edgar lets his brother-in-law borrow his car (mistake no.1), and soon gets a call from Brother that the car won't start. Edgar borrow's his neighbor's car (mistake no.2) to go haul in his stranded vehicle, and immediately wrecks it. He then goes to buy a replacement car for his neighbor from "Miracle Sam - The Used Car Man" (mistakes no.3 through no.8) and drives off without insurance. Meanwhile...Brother has gotten Edgar's car started, and anybody not anticipating the upcoming two-car wipeout collision between the cars driven by Edgar and Brother are watching their first Edgar Kennedy short.