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Brief and Funny ! (silents 1929-1906)

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  • Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson, and Stan Laurel in Big Business (1929)

    1. Big Business

    192919mShort
    7.6 (3.6K)
    Ollie and Stanley are two Christmas Tree sales reps who get into one of their usual mutual-destruction fights with a disgruntled homeowner.
    DirectorsJames W. HorneLeo McCareyStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyJames Finlayson
  • Oliver Hardy and Stan Laurel in Liberty (1929)

    2. Liberty

    192920mPassedShort
    7.5 (2K)
    With the police hot on their trail, Stan and Ollie attempt to change clothes in their getaway car, only to find themselves struggling to balance atop the girders of an unfinished skyscraper. Will they return to ground level in one piece?
    DirectorLeo McCareyStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyTom Kennedy
  • Lyle Tayo, Sammy Brooks, Charley Chase, Edith Fellows, Eugenia Gilbert, Charlie Hall, Jack Hill, Carmencita Johnson, Sam Lufkin, Spec O'Donnell, John T. Prince, Charley Rogers, Harry Semels, and Leo Sulky in Movie Night (1929)

    3. Movie Night

    192920mShort
    7.1 (106)
    A family goes on its weekly outing to the movies, but the evening is hampered by an attempt to pass the wife's brother off as a child, a crowded theater, and the daughter's apparently contagious case of the hiccups.
    DirectorLewis R. FosterStarsCharley ChaseEugenia GilbertEdith Fellows
  • Oliver Hardy, Jean Harlow, and Stan Laurel in Double Whoopee (1929)

    4. Double Whoopee

    192920mShort
    6.9 (1.4K)
    Stanley and Oliver, in their new jobs as footman and doorman at a ritzy hotel, wreak their usual havoc on the guests, including partially undressing a swanky blonde guest and repeatedly escorting a haughty Prussian nobleman into an empty elevator shaft.
    DirectorLewis R. FosterStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyJean Harlow
  • A Quiet Street (1922)

    5. Wiggle Your Ears

    192920mShort
    7.1 (57)
    Mary Ann enjoys Harry's ear wiggling, but he refers doing this for Jean whom he admires. Joe, who likes Mary Ann, tries several times to impress her but cannot wiggle his ears. Using string and gum on his ears didn't work either.
    DirectorRobert F. McGowanStarsJoe CobbJean DarlingAllen 'Farina' Hoskins
  • Seeing the World (1927)

    6. Cat, Dog & Co.

    192920mShort
    6.9 (76)
    Farina, Joe, and friends use dogs to power their "roadsters," but following a lesson from the head of the Be Kind to Animals Society, they make it their cause to rescue animals from bad treatment. Joe even manages to find patience for a nagging flea that persists in biting him. Meanwhile, Wheezer, who has been tormenting animals with his games, dreams that the animals have turned the tables on him.
    DirectorRobert A. McGowanStarsJoe CobbJean DarlingAllen 'Farina' Hoskins
  • A Quiet Street (1922)

    7. Saturday's Lesson

    192920mShort
    7.2 (72)
    A man dressed as the devil scares the gang into minding their mothers.
    DirectorRobert F. McGowanStarsJoe CobbJean DarlingAllen 'Farina' Hoskins
  • The Champeen (1923)

    8. Little Mother

    192920mShort
    6.8 (40)
    Trying to take the place of her deceased mother, a little girl struggles to care for her younger brothers. But the children and their papa have a wonderful surprise in store for them.
    DirectorRobert F. McGowanStarsJoe CobbJean DarlingAllen 'Farina' Hoskins
  • Butter Fingers (1925)

    9. Pink Pajamas

    192920mShort
    6.7 (13)
    Billy treats his marriage vows lightly, and his wife suspects him. Nieghbor Vernon is murderously jealous. Billy sends his wife some silk pajamas to mollify her, but they're sent to Mrs. Dent by mistake. Billy innocently trying to be helpful is almost caught in the wrong apartment, but a card that accompanied the silkies will fall into the wrong hands.
    DirectorPhil WhitmanStarsBilly BevanNatalie JoyceVernon Dent
  • Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, and Harold Warrender in Day-Dreams (1928)

    10. Day-Dreams

    192825mShort
    8.0 (22)
    A young cleaning woman in a boarding-house relieves the drudgery of her job by daydreaming that a foreign student at the house, who she believes is interested in her, is actually a wealthy nobleman who sweeps her off on a romantic journey.
    DirectorIvor MontaguStarsElsa LanchesterHarold WarrenderCharles Laughton
  • School Begins (1928)

    11. School Begins

    192820mShort
    7.6 (17)
    School begins and some gang members are forging notes from their mother wanting out. Then too-young Wheezer parades by the school with escaped circus seals following him, causing a disturbance.
    DirectorRobert A. McGowanStarsJoe CobbJean DarlingAllen 'Farina' Hoskins
  • Charley Chase and Viola Richard in Limousine Love (1928)

    12. Limousine Love

    192820mShort
    7.9 (103)
    On the way to his wedding the bride groom finds a nude, married woman in his car.
    DirectorFred GuiolStarsCharley ChaseEdna MarionViola Richard
  • 13. Motorboat Mamas

    192820mShort
    7.1 (21)
    DirectorsHarry EdwardsPhil WhitmanStarsBilly BevanAlma BennettVernon Dent
  • The Spanking Age (1928)

    14. The Spanking Age

    192820mShort
    6.9 (55)
    Mary and Wheezer live with a malicious step mother. One day, when she is out, they decide to throw a party for the Gang.
    DirectorRobert F. McGowanStarsJoe CobbJean DarlingAllen 'Farina' Hoskins
  • The Cardboard Lover (1928)

    15. The Cardboard Lover

    19281h 15m
    6.7 (887)
    A ditzy American girl visiting Monte Carlo is hired by a tennis champ to be his "cardboard lover"--to pretend to be in love with him so he can teach his two-timing fiancée a lesson and win her back. What he doesn't realize is that the girl isn't pretending; she actually is in love with him, and she sets out to win him for herself.
    DirectorRobert Z. LeonardStarsMarion DaviesJetta GoudalNils Asther
  • The Buccaneers (1924)

    16. Barnum & Ringling, Inc.

    192820mShort
    6.9 (115)
    The gang are living in a posh, but boring, hotel. They decide to stage a circus with their motley collection of dressed up pet animals which gets out of hand causing chaos throughout the hotel.
    DirectorRobert F. McGowanStarsJoe CobbJackie CondonJean Darling
  • Oliver Hardy and Stan Laurel in The Finishing Touch (1928)

    17. The Finishing Touch

    192819mShort
    7.2 (1.4K)
    The boys are contracted to build a house in a day but they have many mishaps and run into trouble with the nearby hospital staff, due to their excessive noise.
    DirectorsClyde BruckmanLeo McCareyStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyDorothy Coburn
  • Two Tars (1928)

    18. Two Tars

    192821mPassedShort
    7.2 (1.7K)
    At a rail crossing, a small fender-bender incident turns into a major tit-for-tat retaliatory war among various motorists.
    DirectorJames ParrottStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyEdgar Kennedy
  • Balançoires (1928)

    19. Balançoires

    192825mShort
    7.0 (40)
    DirectorNoël RenardStarsJosette PerdriatRobert MérinHuguette Dore
  • Oliver Hardy and Stan Laurel in We Faw Down (1928)

    20. We Faw Down

    192820mPassedShort
    6.8 (1.2K)
    Stan & Ollie attempt to fool their wives by sneaking out to a poker game, but instead get involved with two flirty ladies, one of whom is the girlfriend of a jealous boxer.
    DirectorLeo McCareyStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyVivien Oakland
  • Elsa Lanchester in The Tonic (1928)

    21. The Tonic

    192827mShort
    6.7 (28)
    DirectorIvor MontaguStarsElsa LanchesterRenee De VauxCharles Laughton
  • Max Davidson, Gene Morgan, Martha Sleeper, and Bert Sprotte in Pass the Gravy (1928)

    22. Pass the Gravy

    192823mShort
    6.8 (379)
    A comedy about two rival fathers who must make peace when their children get engaged. Everything goes awry when the son of one of the fathers cooks the prize-winning rooster that belongs to the other father for a joint family dinner.
    DirectorFred GuiolStarsMax DavidsonMartha SleeperBert Sprotte
  • A.W.O.L. (1918)

    23. There It Is

    192819mApprovedShort
    7.0 (504)
    Two Scotland Yard detectives travel to New York to investigate the "Fuzz-Faced Phantom": a strange entity who seemingly has the power to cause bizarre, surreal incidents.
    DirectorsHarold L. MullerCharles R. BowersStarsCharles R. BowersKathryn McGuireMelbourne MacDowell
  • Seeing the World (1927)

    24. The Ol' Gray Hoss

    192820mShort
    7.3 (46)
    The gang kidnap the ol' Chief's horse to prevent a debt collector taking it away as payment.
    DirectorRobert A. McGowanStarsJoe CobbJean DarlingAllen 'Farina' Hoskins
  • A.W.O.L. (1918)

    25. Say Ah-h!

    192814mShort
    6.7 (82)
    Charley has to find an ostrich egg in a hurry for a disgruntled visitor, but he doesn't count on the introduction of some surreal plot twists and turns that foil his every attempt.
    DirectorCharles R. BowersStarsCharles R. BowersJ. Gordon RussellJean Douglas

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