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- On his way to collect inheritance in the small town on Hot Dog, Stan gets robbed by highwaymen, one of which is the other person who shall attend the reading of their late Uncle's will. The reading of the will states Stan will get everything, including 'The Last Chance Saloon', but in the case of Stan's death, the saloon will be split between Bad Mike and his friend. Stan nows flees town, but gets on Bad Mike's horse, which takes him to Bad Mike's house. Bad Mike and his gang arrive at the house, after robbing the saloon. They soon hear Stan, and an epic gun battle follows, with the town Sheriff not far behind.
- In Victorian London the esteemed Dr. Pyckle uses himself as a guinea pig when he experiments with a new drug that changes him into a compulsive prankster.
- An employee at a commercial laundry mistakenly thinks he's Chinese. Complications ensue.
- Stan (Stan Laurel) works in a grocery store in the middle of the mountains, buried in snow. The young woman he's in love with is falling for a fraud who pretends to be an officer. Stan has to do something! There's no time to waste!
- A burlesque of Rudolph Valentino's "Monsieur Beaucaire." As M. Don't Care, he is forced to flee France for England and takes work as a barber. Complications follow - duels, a love affair with the Belle of Bath and the expose of M. Don't Care as a prince.
- Stan Laurel stars as a tramp, "a fierce, fiery, fearless, two-fisted loafer." Trouble announces itself as a plate loaded with doughnuts on a windowsill. The farmer's daughter takes pity on him and Stan falls in love. Before the end there will be tears, broken dishes and more doughnuts.
- Stationed in Latin America, lonely sailor Stan wants company. He invites himself to a dinner the Chief has been invited to, where he becomes entranced with the pretty hostess -- much to the chagrin of the Chief and of her local beau.
- The film opens with the hero trying to find a place to sleep and narrowly escaping being eaten by a lion. He finally uses a parachute for bed covering and it rises with him and takes him to a cannibal island. His only chance to escape becoming cannibal steak is to wed the princess. She is pictorially displeasing and he has already fallen in love with the chieftain's favorite. By good luck rather than ingenuity he escapes an untimely end, assumes leadership of the tribe and weds the cannibal maiden he loves. Years later we see him as the father of an extensive family.
- A trio of overweight and incompetent carpenters are hired by a young woman to build a house.
- Kids studying to be detectives experiment with disguises until they have a real case to investigate, involving a missing child, a bomb and a dog.
- Stan Laurel is a man who is robbed of his civilian clothing by an escaped prisoner, who then dresses Stan in the striped uniform. Naturally, since it's Stan, a guard nabs him and locks him in the pokey.
- Jimmy in this particular Picture does not let his eyes behave, and flirts with any number of girls, an the consequence is that he is caught in several jams, and well stepped on. A Ford Automobile figures in this Comedy to quite an extent, helping to get Jimmy in more and more difficulties, and winding up with the Comedian going over a cliff with the Machine.
- Stan is a detective who essentially relies on different costumes to successfully complete his investigations.
- As the three fat boys, answering the radio's call of "Get Up, Babies," roll out of bed, they begin their daily morning exercises. These include "ups and downs," "Dumbel Exercises." and such, which are necessary, says the aged and crippled broadcaster, if one wishes to attain physique such as his. During the "Ups and Downs," the fat boys use pulley-weights, and finally produce from the other side of the wall a man in a bath-tub. who complains that it is bad enough taking a bath without making a personal appearance. The ''Skipping Rope" Exercise proves to be disastrous, as the next scene shows the floor undulating with the bounces of the three fat boys, and finally collapsing when they all pounce upon a medicine ball. Nothing daunted, they run out into the hall where they find their rowing machine. This carries them into the street, and down a hill, where they make the discovery that they are late for the barber school. There they ply their trade on various interesting customers, whom they elevate in the barber chair at will. One of these received a most unusual hair-cut when the clippers plow a path in his hair from his forehead. to the back of his head. Another customer's beard discloses a pigeon when one of the boys starts to cut it. Lois Boyd, the manicurist, displays her ingenuity when she removed a half moon from her table in order that the fat boys may be seated comfortably when being manicured. But in spite of their cleverness, the boys and Lois Boyd cannot fool the two-gun man who is their last customer, and the fade-out shows them being chased down the street by their ferocious client.
- A young woman is taken to a fancy nightclub by her uncle, but is stuck with the bill when the stingy uncle gets into an argument with a waiter and leaves without paying. While working off the debt, she recommends some friends of hers as an act for the club. Her friends are hired, but their performance does not go over very well, and soon the whole club is in an uproar.
- The story treats of a wealthy girl portrayed by Lois Boyd who owns the hotel in town and the attempts made by a notorious crook who inveigles her into a phony elopement. The crook's Wife becoming wise, complicates matters and the fat men who play tho part of bell boys in the a picture certainly give the heavy an awful time. Finally they save the girl from the villain and all ends well.
- Mickey and the gang get ready for a big game of football. But Stinky Davis has a few tricks up his sleeve to stop the gang from winning.
- Dinky Doodle and Weakheart discover a hen that lays golden eggs, but also a giant ogre who's very hungry.
- Fat, Fatty and Fatter are seen rescuing their old Ford from the scrap wagon that is hauling it away. And then report to work, where they have a dyspeptic boss. With the help of a monkey they manage to wreck the office.
- This subject opens in a girls' boarding school with scenes of the girls doing the Charleston. Gale Henry is the school mistress and throughout the picture she is kept busy disciplining the pupils. She also protects them from male admirers, and animals which have escaped from the zoo. To add an atmosphere of terror to the comedy, lightning and heavy storm scenes are flashed every few feet throughout the entire picture.
- In this comedy we are introduced to the hero who finds his wife sewing baby clothes and believing he is to have an addition to his family rushes to the office and gives everybody a day off. Crazy with joy the boob rushes to and fro getting in a tangle with the police. Finally when he lands home he discovers that his wife has twins-- but not her own--They belong to their neighbor, Dr. Brown.
- A naïve/credulous/gullible/ shy young man (Stan Laurel) finds himself alone on an island inhabited by very enterprising/ sprightly women.
- Toots and Casper think they are going on a relaxing vacation until their rich relative decides to come along.
- Toots (Thelma Hill) and Casper (Bud Duncan) visit a college campus and get mistaken for freshmen.
- Three rather "heavyset" young men compete for the affections of a pretty girl at a rooming house.
- Harry Sweet in the story is an outcast from society, as he is a ne'er do well. He rents a room where Gale Henry is a landlady. He is unable to pay his room rent. Instead of paying his room rent with money he earned. Someone was always selling him something on his way home to pay the rent. Finally, the landlady threatens to put him out of the house, but as she goes to notify him, she hears an attorney reading the will of his grandfather, who has left Harry Sweet a million dollars. From then on he is chased by women, and his landlady Gale Henry in particular, all of the women trying to marry him.
- The teacher challenges the kids to a spelling bee before the kids all perform in a school talent show.
- Mickey's football team has their football practice interrupted by the local rich kids. A battle ensues both on and off the field.
- The unhappily married couple head to divorce court where Toots tells a series of funny stories about Casper.
- Mickey has decided that the kids should start their own movie studio and he naturally considers himself the most qualified person to take charge of production, and he should also play all the lead roles too.
- This Blue Ribbon Comedy treats on the subject of a love sick couple who are afraid of the girls father. The cousin of the boy decides he will fix things up for the lovers and all his attempts result in getting the boy in worse with his prospective father-in-law. The lovers finally elope and are pursued by the irate father who of course must become reconciled now that the couple are wedded.
- Mickey and his friends are [gasp!] in trouble again. This time, they try washing windows on a skyscraper, putting the gang in all sorts of danger.
- Chester Conklin portrays the role of an amateur sleuth on the search of bootleggers. He is made to assist, rather than to hinder, the lawbreakers, and the wind-up of the comedy is a surprise as the reel Sherlock turns out to be none other than Alice Ardell herself.
- This is a burlesque on the story of Aladdin and the wonderful lamp and we see Dinky Doodle's successful search for the lamp and the wonders which he accomplishes. One of these is transforming the artist into a cartoon and taking him on a series of comical and astounding adventures.