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Charlie is trying to get a job in a film but begins by helping out the carpenter. When one of the actors doesn't show, Charlie is given his big chance.

After collecting donations for German street musicians, Charlie heads for the country where he rescues a girl from a band of gypsies. Apainting of the girl is seen by her wealthy mother and soon the mother and the artist are involved in looking for the girl.

Waiter Charlie decides to spend his lunch hour at the local roller skating rink where he rescues Edna from the unwelcome attentions of Mr. Stout.

Stan's holiday plans go awry when he misses his train and accepts an invitation to stay with a complete stranger.

Charlie is a policeman given the roughest of beats to patrol: Easy Street Determined to win the hand of Edna, Charlie will do all in his power to transform a rough and ready area into something more akin to its name.

A tramp steals a handbag and then tries to pick Charlie's pockets. Charlie retrieves the handbag and after a while it makes its way back to its rightful owner, who is unhappy that her boyfriend didn't try to protect her in the first place.

Buster is out playing golf when he gets knocked unconscious by a flying ball. Whilst he is out cold, an escaped convict steals his clothes, so when Buster awakes he finds himself on the way to prison, where he is to be hanged the following day.

Tramp Charlie rescues a farmer's daughter from the unwelcome attentions of the hobo and also deals with 2 other hobos who arrive looking for trouble. Charlie is taken home in gatitude but fails in his attempt to become a farmhand

Mr. Pest (Charlie Chaplin) has to try several seats in the theatre before he finds himself right in the front and in a fight with the conductor!

African explorers' professor Stanislaus Laurello and Hans Downe travel around Africa, from Hollywood to Los Angeles, trying to capture and photograph animals.

Theatre propman Larry Semon has to contend with a wind machine that is malfunctioning, a rooster that spits out nitroglycerine and a gang led by Oliver Hardy that is planning on robbing the payroll.

A parody of both the opera and earlier film version, in which Charlie plays Spanish officer Darn Hosiery who is led astray by gypsy girl Carmen (Edna Purvience).

After causing all kinds of havoc on the sales floor, Charlie runs into the store inspector who has just knocked out the manager and robbed the safe.

Former jailbird Charlie is swindled by a conman and then talked into helping burgle a house, but the incompetent burglars are caught by Edna who calls the police. Charlie manages to charm his way out of a return to prison, at least for the moment.

Edna's father wants her to marry wealthy Count He-Ha, whilst she wants to marry Charlie. Charlie impersonates the Count at a dinner but is found out when the real Count turns up and thrown out.

Thrown off a train near an amusement park, Buster gets a job in a shooting gallery run by the Blinking Buzzards mob. Ordered to kill a businessman, Buster ends up protecting the man and his daughter.

The very first pairing of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy on screen, with Oliver playing a crook who tries to rob Stan.

Charlie Chaplin imitator Billy West stars as a tramp who emerges from underneath a train and follows a pretty girl into a railway station. His attempts to chat her up provoke her boyfriend (Oliver Hardy) into an angry confrontation.

The paper hanger (Oliver Hardy) and his assistant answer an urgent call from a mental hospital.

The paper hanger (Oliver Hardy) and his assistant answer an urgent call from a mental hospital.

Buster builds a boat, The Damfino, in the basement of his house. The boat is too big to fit through the door, resulting in the collapse of the house when he drives off. Will the boat float or sink on its maiden voyage?

In order to impress the father of a girl he is keen on, Buster goes to the city in search of work. In his letters home he writes of his various jobs which her imagination expands into much better ones; she thinks he is a surgeon when he is a vet's assistant and he is clearing up on Wall Street when he's a janitor.

Buster and Phyllis try to outdo each other with their survival skills on a number of outdoor pursuits.

Although Buster is majoring in botany, he graduates in electrical engineering and is hired to wire up a new home, complete with lots of fanciful gadgets. The real electrical engineering graduate gets his revenge by rewiring the house

Romeo and Juliet given an update and set in a tenement neighbourhood where Buster and Virginia's family fight over the fence separating their respective buildings.

Stan Laurel is a street cleaner who in a case of mistaken identity gets pursued by the law and finds refuge impersonating a dentist for an afternoon.

Newlyweds Buster and Sybil have been given a portable house as a wedding gift. It is the type of house you can build within a week if you have all of the right

Stan Laurel is a street cleaner who in a case

A parody of Rudolph Valentino’s successful film Blood And Sand, this features Stan Laurel as Rhubarb Vaseline, a bullfighter who must fight one last to win the hand of his beloved.

Both Larry Semon (as The Speed Kid) AND Oliver Hardy (Dangerous Dan McGraw) have an eye for Lou DuPoise, the daughter of wealthy Avery DuPoise. Mr DuPoise organises a race with the winner being able to visit his daughter every Wednesday.

Douglas Fairbanks is at his most graceful and charismatic in one of the classic silent films of the 1920s.

Often hailed as the greatest fantasy film ever made, The Thief of Bagdad (1940) was producer Alexander Korda's crowning achievement. Deservedly winning Academy Awards for art direction, color cinematography, and special effects, this Arabian Nights adventure appeals to all ages with its fantastical tale of Abu (Sabu), the little thief who befriends the prince of Bagdad (John Justin) and foils the nefarious plans of the evil grand vizier (Conrad Veidt), who seizes control of Bagdad and covets the princess of Basra (Joan Duprez). From its gorgeous, epic-scale sets to flying horses, magic carpets, and, best of all, Rex Ingram's towering jinni of the bottle, this Thief has all the magic of the tales that inspired it, and vibrant Technicolor brings it all to life in dazzling style. Six esteemed directors worked on this infamously troubled production, but the final result exceeded all expectations, becoming an instant classic that endures to this day

Often hailed as the greatest fantasy film ever made, The Thief of Bagdad (1940) was producer Alexander Korda's crowning achievement. Deservedly winning Academy Awards for art direction, color cinematography, and special effects, this Arabian Nights adventure appeals to all ages with its fantastical tale of Abu (Sabu), the little thief who befriends the prince of Bagdad (John Justin) and foils the nefarious plans of the evil grand vizier (Conrad Veidt), who seizes control of Bagdad and covets the princess of Basra (Joan Duprez). From its gorgeous, epic-scale sets to flying horses, magic carpets, and, best of all, Rex Ingram's towering jinni of the bottle, this Thief has all the magic of the tales that inspired it, and vibrant Technicolor brings it all to life in dazzling style. Six esteemed directors worked on this infamously troubled production, but the final result exceeded all expectations, becoming an instant classic that endures to this day

Often hailed as the greatest fantasy film ever made, The Thief of Bagdad (1940) was producer Alexander Korda's crowning achievement. Deservedly winning Academy Awards for art direction, color cinematography, and special effects, this Arabian Nights adventure appeals to all ages with its fantastical tale of Abu (Sabu), the little thief who befriends the prince of Bagdad (John Justin) and foils the nefarious plans of the evil grand vizier (Conrad Veidt), who seizes control of Bagdad and covets the princess of Basra (Joan Duprez). From its gorgeous, epic-scale sets to flying horses, magic carpets, and, best of all, Rex Ingram's towering jinni of the bottle, this Thief has all the magic of the tales that inspired it, and vibrant Technicolor brings it all to life in dazzling style. Six esteemed directors worked on this infamously troubled production, but the final result exceeded all expectations, becoming an instant classic that endures to this day

Often hailed as the greatest fantasy film ever made, The Thief of Bagdad (1940) was producer Alexander Korda's crowning achievement. Deservedly winning Academy Awards for art direction, color cinematography, and special effects, this Arabian Nights adventure appeals to all ages with its fantastical tale of Abu (Sabu), the little thief who befriends the prince of Bagdad (John Justin) and foils the nefarious plans of the evil grand vizier (Conrad Veidt), who seizes control of Bagdad and covets the princess of Basra (Joan Duprez). From its gorgeous, epic-scale sets to flying horses, magic carpets, and, best of all, Rex Ingram's towering jinni of the bottle, this Thief has all the magic of the tales that inspired it, and vibrant Technicolor brings it all to life in dazzling style. Six esteemed directors worked on this infamously troubled production, but the final result exceeded all expectations, becoming an instant classic that endures to this day

Often hailed as the greatest fantasy film ever made, The Thief of Bagdad (1940) was producer Alexander Korda's crowning achievement. Deservedly winning Academy Awards for art direction, color cinematography, and special effects, this Arabian Nights adventure appeals to all ages with its fantastical tale of Abu (Sabu), the little thief who befriends the prince of Bagdad (John Justin) and foils the nefarious plans of the evil grand vizier (Conrad Veidt), who seizes control of Bagdad and covets the princess of Basra (Joan Duprez). From its gorgeous, epic-scale sets to flying horses, magic carpets, and, best of all, Rex Ingram's towering jinni of the bottle, this Thief has all the magic of the tales that inspired it, and vibrant Technicolor brings it all to life in dazzling style. Six esteemed directors worked on this infamously troubled production, but the final result exceeded all expectations, becoming an instant classic that endures to this day

Often hailed as the greatest fantasy film ever made, The Thief of Bagdad (1940) was producer Alexander Korda's crowning achievement. Deservedly winning Academy Awards for art direction, color cinematography, and special effects, this Arabian Nights adventure appeals to all ages with its fantastical tale of Abu (Sabu), the little thief who befriends the prince of Bagdad (John Justin) and foils the nefarious plans of the evil grand vizier (Conrad Veidt), who seizes control of Bagdad and covets the princess of Basra (Joan Duprez). From its gorgeous, epic-scale sets to flying horses, magic carpets, and, best of all, Rex Ingram's towering jinni of the bottle, this Thief has all the magic of the tales that inspired it, and vibrant Technicolor brings it all to life in dazzling style. Six esteemed directors worked on this infamously troubled production, but the final result exceeded all expectations, becoming an instant classic that endures to this day

Often hailed as the greatest fantasy film ever made, The Thief of Bagdad (1940) was producer Alexander Korda's crowning achievement. Deservedly winning Academy Awards for art direction, color cinematography, and special effects, this Arabian Nights adventure appeals to all ages with its fantastical tale of Abu (Sabu), the little thief who befriends the prince of Bagdad (John Justin) and foils the nefarious plans of the evil grand vizier (Conrad Veidt), who seizes control of Bagdad and covets the princess of Basra (Joan Duprez). From its gorgeous, epic-scale sets to flying horses, magic carpets, and, best of all, Rex Ingram's towering jinni of the bottle, this Thief has all the magic of the tales that inspired it, and vibrant Technicolor brings it all to life in dazzling style. Six esteemed directors worked on this infamously troubled production, but the final result exceeded all expectations, becoming an instant classic that endures to this day