Mail Trouble(1942)

This Way Out(en)

The oddball owner of an assisted suicide center and her hapless assistant have ten days to increase client numbers or face closure by the strict Euthanasia Licensing Board.

His Bread and Butter(en)

After arranging for wifey to land a job as the café's cashier, Mann warns her not to reveal that they're married, lest proprietor Slim Summerville fire them both. The trouble begins when both Summerville and headwaiter Bobby Dunn fall for Pierce, driving Mann into paroxysms of insane jealousy.

Squeaks and Squawks(en)

A repairman falls in love with a blacksmith's daughter, who's having trouble with their greedy landlord, and helps them get one over on him.

Luke's Shattered Sleep(en)

Audiences may think Luke with his St. Vitus movement never sleeps, but they are dead wrong. Like Bill Shakespeare Luke "blesses the man who first invented sleep." After a screamingly comical search for slumber he finally hits the hay and sleeps without moving to Brooklyn.

Sweetie(en)

A Baby Peggy two-reeler

La bolita - El cortometraje(en)

A gambler and his victim are going to play a game, betting fifty euros

The Uneasy Three(en)

Often hysterical spoof of Tod Browning's THE UNHOLY THREE (and several others of his crime movies) has Charley Chase playing the mastermind of a dimwitted trio of thieves who plan on stealing a priceless jewel.

Donald and Jess(en)

A lonely plumber fights for a customer he's fallen for.

Bunny Backslides(en)

While Flora Winslow, a widow is engaged to Bunny, she attends a lecture on eugenics and decides that her intended husband is too fat. She tells him he must reduce, and as she wishes to become stouter, they agree to attend Dr. Sweatem's Sanitarium.

The Professional Patient(en)

Mr. & Mrs. Sidney Drew starred in a series of polite situational comedies, first for Vitagraph and then for their own company, releasing through Metro. Mr. Drew -- uncle of John, Lionel and Ethel Barrymore -- died after his son was killed in the first world war and his wife -- who wrote and seems to have directed a sizeable number of their comedies, starred. In this one, Mr. Drew has been fired from his regular job and, money growing short, takes up a position as a professional patient of a dentist, to reassure the other patients in the room. There he meets and falls in love with Mrs. Drew.

The Snow Cure(en)

The Snow Cure is a silent Comedy short.

Naughty Nurses(en)

Good Night Nurse(en)

A woman commits her hard-drinking husband to a sanitarium that would drive any man to drink.

The Gum Riot(en)

The action takes place in a gum factory. By a peculiar accident, a bootlegger attempting to avoid the keen eye of an officer of the law, holds a bottle of liquor so that its contents drop into a vat in which the gum is being prepared. It is when the gum is finished and ready to chew that the riot starts.

What a Night!(en)

A Sorority Mixup(en)

Girls’ school hazing leads to human and animal drag. (MoMA)

Some Hero(en)

When Tweedledum's girl is kidnapped by bad men, he springs into action.

A Schoolhouse Scandal(en)

A surrealistic stew of airplanes, tornadoes, trick mirrors, and underwater car repair. Footage was recycled for the studios’ 1920 release Hold Me Tight. (MoMA)

All Wet(en)

A newly married couple looking for a house come up against a crooked real estate agent.

Zigoto's Honeymoon(fr)

In the grip of passionate foreplay, Zigoto and his lover are oblivious to an escalating series of interruptions and catastrophes going on around them. (MoMA)