Hal Roach Filmes

Entry in Hal Roach's "Dippy Doo Dads' series of comedy shorts. All roles are played by animals. Partially lost.

Mother's Joy is a 1923 silent comedy film starring Stan Laurel.

Snub Pollard and Marie Mosquini are to be married, with Ernie Morrison as their best man. It's the usual gag-filled Pollard one-reeler, with William...

Charley has several dilemmas facing him at Christmas, all posed by his greedy, heartless landlord Noah and his family.

A tenderfoot arrives in a western town and the inhabitants give him a rough time.

A landlord is attending his new tenants' rollicking and well-attended housewarming party. As midnight arrives, a ghostly apparition appears outside...

Glenn's first attempt at wearing long trousers and being a man about town goes swimmingly as he quickly falls for a vivacious young widow who...

Short comedy which posits that in a hundred years men's styles will revert to Regency garb, and that there will be a complete gender role reversal,...

Love's Detour is a 1924 comedy short

Oddly enough for a Roach comedy the premise of MIXED NUTS is grounded in topical political satire aimed at the New Deal, although the satire is of a...

A day at the seaside chasing a lost child.

The irate proprietor of a hotel discharges his hotel clerk after the "Hawkshaw" of the inn tells him the young upstart is flirting with his daughter....

Luke and his pal find existence in prison so amusing that they depart with regrets.

Lucas and Larkin, his running mate, after looking for a job for some time, finally land one in a photographer's shop and immediately start to take...

The story of the first Thanksgiving is re-imagined as a father tells it to his son.

What bridegroom could be romantic with a swollen jaw and a yelling tooth? His young bride thinks that's no excuse!

This offering tells the tale of one, Oscar Weeban, a fellow deeply in love with a certain Maisie. He has promised to take her to the Garbage...

Irvin takes the governor on a duck hunting trip in the hopes of securing a plumb job, but his annoying nephew has other plans.

Charley/Jimmy is a car salesman who takes an unruly family of prospective buyers for a picnic in the woods.