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- In their first screen appearance together, Stan plays a penniless dog lover and Oliver plays a crook who tries to rob him and his new paramour.
- The business tycoon Nicolas Saccard is nearly ruined by his rival Gunderman, when he tries to raise capital for his company. To push up the price of his stock, Saccard plans a publicity stunt involving the aviator Jacques Hamelin flying across the Atlantic to Guyana and drilling for oil there, much to the dismay of Hamelin's wife Line. While Hamelin is away, Saccard tries to seduce Line. Line finally realizes that she and her husband were pawns in Saccard's scheme, and she accuses him of stock fraud.
- A female secret agent has gotten ahold of a new type of explosive gas. She has to avoid the efforts of two men who are trying to steal it. They succeed in doing so, but the gas turns out to be not quite what they expected.
- Accosted by a masher in the park and unable to motivate husband Charlie into taking action, Mabel gets him a boxing mannequin to sharpen his fighting skills.
- Charlie and his partner are to deliver a piano to 666 Prospect St. and repossess one from 999 Prospect St. They confuse the addresses. The difficulties of delivering the piano by mule cart, and most of the specific gags, appeared later in Laurel and Hardy's "The Music Box".
- A man decides to stage a fake robbery in front of his girlfriend's father (who doesn't like him), hoping it will make the father change his opinion. Unfortunately, real crooks wind up taking the money from the "robbery", and the boyfriend has to get it back.
- Helen, informed of the danger which menaces an excursion train because another engine on the same track is running wild, mounts a motorcycle and speeds down the track to warn the passengers of their imminent peril.
- An abused chimpanzee escapes from a zoo. On the run, he meets Farina, running away from home and his battling parents. The two become friends and inspire the rest of the gang to put on a show to make money from neighborhood kids. But the chimp has his own idea and runs off creating havoc all over town until chased down by the local cops.
- Larry'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.
- Dolly, a farmer maiden, longs to become a screen star. A visiting film company wants to shoot "Uncle Tom's Cabin" on the farm and she gives permission. When the leading lady fails to arrive, Dolly is cast as Little Eva, Topsy and Eliza. Various laughable sequences occur in the filming of the venerable classic along somewhat unique lines. At the end of the day, Dolly draws all of the undeveloped film from the camera magazines, hoping to see her "pitcher," thus ruining the most original version of the "Tom" show ever screened.
- Fatty and Al are competing to take the same girl to the Waiters' Ball, but the formal dress requirement presents a problem: Fatty owns a tuxedo, but Al does not.
- A nervy young man follows a pretty lady into a diner to flirt with her, but winds up getting stuck with the tab.
- Stan plays a mischievous and clumsy worker in a lumber factory.
- After a homely married couple separately undergo plastic surgery, they unwittingly plan an extramarital affair with each other.
- Big Ben has the largest store in the town of New Ralgia. His chief clerk is in love with the post mistress. The three of them get involved in a series of mishaps with their customers and with the town ladies' man, whose advances conceal a more sinister purpose.
- Larry's absurdly plush life of ease as a convict comes to an end when his sentence is up. Tossed out, he tries several ways, including a stickup to get back in the comfortable jail. Exchanging clothes with a lookalike escaped prisoner, he goes back, only to find he's to be hung. Now desperate to leave again, he joins other cons in a jailbreak.
- A man finds out that his wife wishes he would act more like his twin brother, so he decides to impersonate his twin in an attempt to determine his wife's fidelity.
- Dr. Robert Cromwell performs a delicate operation that has never been done before, and the patient dies. He is charged with malpractice and manslaughter and his trial is national news, but the jury acquits him. But the court of public opinion is still against him, and the medical board will meet to decide whether or not to take his medical license away. Before they do, amateur pilot Cromwell decides to join his friend, WWI Ace Donald Evans, on a flight to Alaska looking for a shorter route to Japan by following the Aleutian Islands. They crash in Alaska and Evans is killed, but Cromwell is rescued by fur trapper Tom Ross. He takes Cromwell to Armstrong's Trading Post, where he is nursed back to health by Klondike, a girl who works for Armstrong and was engaged to marry Armstrong's son Jim, who is now suffering from the same disease that Cromwell's last patient had. Mark talks Cromwell into performing the same operation, and this time it's a success--or would have been if Jim hadn't decided to fake it being a failure.
- Larry, apparently a wealthy young man-about-town, romances Vera, who has developed a new invention, a gas mask, for use in the war. Larry leaves Vera's house unaware that German spies are attempting to steal the plans for her invention. At a restaurant, Larry turns out not to be wealthy, but simply one of the waiters. When Vera and her father arrive at the restaurant, they are shocked to see Larry working there, but even more shocked when the restaurant owner turns out to be the ringleader of the gang of spies. The gang attempts to steal the plans, with only Larry to rescue both the papers and Vera.
- The gang's teacher wins a trip to Europe, with the gang accompanying him; a hectic and stress-filled trip, including mishaps by Farina at Mt Vesuvius and the Eiffel tower. Oh what a nightmare this has become; If it was only a dream.
- A conman snakes his way into the good graces of a young woman's wealthy parents - but he comes to regret his life's choices when he gets between her and her true love.
- In France during World War I, an army payroll car containing $250,000 turns up missing. A GI, nicknamed "Spuds" because of his prowess at peeling potatoes, discovers that it was stolen by German spies, and--since his captain was responsible for the car and will be in big trouble if it's not recovered--goes behind the enemy lines to retrieve both the car and the $250,000 payroll.
- A small town man takes a mail-order detective course. When a Black friend is murdered, he goes undercover in black-face to investigate at a notorious, knife-wielding bootlegger's roadhouse.
- The handy man pays ardent attention to the plump cook, who is really the lost wife of a mysterious stranger. He finds out in time to divorce her.
- A janitor ends up in the middle of a lover's feud.
- A young man, discovering "long Pants" for the first time, brings home a loose woman to meet the folks.
- When Hamilton is kicked out of his home by his father, he lives in a park until a girl brings him to a rescue mission. But there, though innocent, it appears he's robbed the collection basket.
- A burlesque on the life of a sailor at sea.
- Director Larry Semon and a young Stan Laurel costar as prisoners loafing on the chain gang. As both comrades and rivals, their paired movements result in strikingly choreographed slapstick. A climactic chase through the streets of 1918 Los Angeles is packed with the kind of spectacular stunts that made Semon one of the biggest names in silent comedy at the time.
- Here's a film that will upset all your ideas of the Wild West. A parody of the great screen classic, "The Covered Wagon," it treats of the adventures of a band of pioneers who make their transcontinental trip in flivvers, meet with Indians who take the warpath on bicycles, and finally make their escape on a trolley car which runs across the prairie.
- A group of oil magnates are trying to think of new ways to attract business. One of them suggests that they contact the inventor Pollard, who has devised a new gasoline substitute. Pollard himself lives in a home filled with his eccentric inventions. When he gets the message from the oil company, he is excited about the opportunity to demonstrate his innovation.
- After their house is blown away by a twister, a farmer and his wife decide to move to California. Once over the border they're greeted by rain, hail, snow and an Indian uprising.
- A messenger (Snub) is sent to an artist's lavish estate and so is a competitor.(Boland). They cavort with a bevy of gorgeous, scanty-costumed models, until an outraged husband (Young) arrives to beat up who he thinks is responsible.
- Smugglers are on the loose and a thriving black market in salami is plaguing the nation. Clark and McCullough are hired to catch the smugglers. They are soon up to their ears in salami.
- Jimmy returns from college and works at his father's iron foundry and helps his mom with a charity event. He goes to a tough dance hall to impress his girl, where he mistaken for a notorious gangster.
- Two paperhangers are employed by a sanitarium to hang up some posters. Chaos Ensures.
- After being discharged from the 372nd infantry, on account of a bean shortage, smithy seeks employment. He finds employment at a construction site, where he helps to build a house, and soon causes havoc amoungst other workers. The constuction company owner leaves for a week, and tells his secretary to send a letter to Mr. Smith telling him to complete the construction of the house while he (the owner) is away. The letter is accidently sent to Smithy who manages to complete the house. When the owner returns the house is complete, and Smithy is commended until the last support beam is removed...
- A girl and her suitor are interrupted by the pranks of a rival (who rigs a booby trap which fires a cannon). Music composed and performed by Donald Sosin. Presented by CineMuseum (on behalf of Keystone Films).
- Stan Laurel's blundering worker drops all kinds of heavy props on poor James Finlayson, the foreman of a failing lumber company that cannot possibly have enough insurance to cover all the pratfalls. You just knew that big bucket of hot glue was trouble.
- Two nutty bellhops raise havoc at a posh hotel.
- Larry 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.
- Billy, a confidence man. arrives in Squashville, a lumber town. He sees Babe, the daughter of the village doctor, disporting herself on the banks of the river. Learning that her father is the richest man in the village, Billy begins to beguile the shy, simple miss with tales of life in the big city. The innocent miss falls into his snare and gives her tender heart to the black rascal. Billy, scenting spoils that far exceeds his expectations, summons Florence, his confederate, and two crooks to come to his assistance. Budd, the village boob and life-long suitor for Babe's love, is the one stumbling block in Billy's path to the successful culmination of his plans. The doctor, returning home after a professional visit, discovers Billy about to make off with all the money in the office safe. Learning from Babe that the villain has beguiled her into opening the safe, the doctor orders Billy out of the house and administers a well-deserved spanking to his too-trusting daughter. Upon the arrival of Florence and the crooks, Billy orders his woman confederate to win the love of Budd, and to keep him out of the way of the villain. Florence enraptures the country boy and succeeds in keeping him at a safe distance, leaving the villain, Billy, to work in safety. Taking the place of a man who has been shot in a gambling fight, Billy succeeds in gaining an entrance into the doctor's home and persuading Babe to elope with him. The doctor, discovering the plot, rushes to the church just in time to stop the marriage and drags Babe back to the house. Infuriated at the continued failure of his evil plans, Billy resorts to violence and has his two henchmen waylay the doctor, and carry him to the sawmill. Here Budd discovers conspirators placing the doctor upon a log, and threatening to saw him into halves unless he consents to the marriage of Billy and Babe. Horrified at the sight, Budd rushes off to notify Babe and to secure aid of the local police force. Babe arrives on the scene just in time to save her father from the cruel saw and the police arriving shortly after arrest Billy and incarcerate him in the local jail. Florence and the two crooks, who managed to avoid arrest, proceed to steal the jail. Placing the jail on a commandeered wagon, the crooks drive off with the police force in pursuit. Inside the jail Billy is urging his pals to greater efforts when a wheel of the wagon breaks off, and the jail and its sole tenant is hurled into the water. Florence's devotion to her lord comes to the surface, and diving into the water, she reaches the jail, and the two drift far out of the confines of the little village, while Babe, realizing the worth of the love of her rustic sweetheart, Budd, finds contentment and peace in his arms.
- The conflict between moonshiners and revenuers.