Gilbert Pratt

Luke is an inept detective who follows the wrong man to a seaside hotel.

Luke, running a chili parlor, inherits a million dollars and joins high society.

In pre-historic times (dream sequence), our hero, in a loin cloth, battles other cavemen over the opposite sex.

An Englishman and his valet have adventures in the American West.

An Englishman and his valet tour the American West.

While on the job, delivering a message, Luke finds himself in a girl's seminary.

Luke operates a sanatarium, which he has naturally staffed with a bevy of attractive nurses.

Nell Saunders is the daughter of an innkeeper in a college town. She is loved by Glen Dale, the quarterback of the college team, and also Pierson, the fullback.

Lonesome Luke's Honeymoon is a 1917 American short comedy film starring Harold Lloyd.

Stop! Luke! Listen! is a 1917 short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd.

A fortuneteller informs Monte that he will marry the first girl he meets. After several false starts, he meets what he is sure is "the" girl. She takes him to jail, hits him with a book, and affects her brother's escape, leaving Monte inside. He finally gets out, a chase occurs and he swears off girls forever, only to be snared again.

Lonesome Luke, Plumber is a 1917 American short comedy film starring Harold Lloyd.

Hanley shoots a man and then frames Bill Roberts. Being the Judge he then holds court planning to hang Bill but Bill's friends effect his escape. Andy tries to lead Hanley astray by misleading him as to Bill's location. But Bill changes plans and Hanley catches up with him and this leads to the showdown.

A 1924 Jack Duffy comedy. Jean manages to be expelled from college to be able to go to Europe with her grandfather. When he learns about that, grandpa disinherits Jean and starts looking for a grandson to replace her. Jean dresses as a boy, Oswald. Grandpa then tries to marry Oswald and test his new grandson’s strength.

Hayfoot, Strawfoot? is a silent comedy short.

Hayfoot, Strawfoot? is a silent comedy short.

Taking Alice and Ruth to a show with Alice 's father & his boss's money they see that its leading man is an old friend of the girls. He invites them out after the show, but not having money Eddie has to pay the bill. Eddie calls Joe to tell him what is going on. The girls escape to the actor's room and go out the window but Joe and Eddie finally catch them.

Our hero gets a job at a hotel in the country and proceeds to introduce some changes, installing gadgets and time-saving devices.

Our newlywed hero is about to embark on a journey when he realizes that he has lost the train tickets. A crook knocks him down and switches clothes with him. The assailant's victims pursue our man while his bride is led to believe that she has been deserted.

Con artists Harold and Snub attempt to outwit phony psychic Miss Goulash and her "professor" father.

At a masquerade ball, our hero, in a tramp costume, is arrested when they think he is a real hobo. In the meantime, an actual hobo, at the party, is treated like a guest.

Bebe is surrounded by suitors, but her father wants her to marry Professor M. T. Noodle. Harold makes his move by impersonating the professor.

Roomers in a boarding house break the rules and are caught cooking if their room. A frantic run-in with the landlady ensues.

Our hero is a police officer who gets involved in a crap game, flirting with a nurse and other amusements.

Rhubarb Vaselino lives in a small village, when he and his friend, Sapo, enter a bullfighting contest, Sapo dies, but Rhubarb kills three bulls and becomes a local hero earning money. Two years later, he is living in Madrid as a national hero , when he becomes involved with Filet de Sol, and his lover finds out, he must fight the most deadliest in Spain, in the last bull fight of the season.

A pretty harem girl is rescued by a U. S. Navy officer. Whilst fleeing from the guards the girl takes refuge in the rooms of the notorious Rodney St. Clair, an erring Knight, who is proud of his long list of feminine conquests. But the Navy officer again comes to her rescue, and Sir Rodney is left to marry the harem's fattest woman after she puts a love potion in his drink.

Lloyd and Pollard help a young girl out of the water but they are then chased by a shrew. On a bicycle built for two, Lloyd lazes about on the back while Pollard sweats from all of his effort. Thieves escape by car but it breaks down. Lloyd and Pollard help them start up again but the thieves steal the tandem bicycle, leaving the car in the hands of the heros.

This is translated from a 'Cine-club' catalog Ufoleis (France) 1973-1974. The Three Fatty (A ton of fun) are salesmen in a grocery. Everyone will finish drinking the cider in the flooded cellar.

It's in three distinct segments. The first and probably best involves Charley, his girlfriend, and her father foolish her mother and the suitor she prefers into getting Charley into the house for dinner. In the later two segments, in which Charley must get married within minutes to get a job, and then tries to go on a picnic with his new family, are both also packed with laughs and timed with an almost musical brilliance.

A Ton of Fun slapstick comedy short directed by Gilbert Pratt.

Stan plays a mischievous and clumsy worker in a lumber factory.

James Parrott joins every lodge in town to get in good with people as he tries to sell his fire extinguishers.

Hear 'Em Rave is a 1918 short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd.

Movie comedy with Earl Montgomery and Joe Rock.

In their first comedy two-reeler of 1932, vivacious Thelma Todd and fluttery ZaSu Pitts learn that the royal seal of a foreign country has been stolen and promptly set out to catch it -- a sea lion.

Anita and Marion realize that an abandoned baby they sneaked into an orphanage was kidnapped from a millionaire. For the reward, they proceed to break into the institution at night, dressed as men to beat curfew, to get the kid out again. This film survives only in very fragmentary form.

Gangster leader Nick the Sheik is released from jail and manages to run into "collector of rare coins" Vernon Snodgrass, who looks exactly like him. With the cops after Nick AND Nick's old girlfriend wanting to get the romance cooking, you can imagine the confusion that ensues.

A trip to the beach is the location for this 1918 Comedy short.

A clerk in a failing antiques store gets a big idea on how to move the merchandise so that he can save the store and possibly win the girl.

Harold's checked cap, blown from his head by a freakish wind, gets him into trouble. First he comes into conflict with the police as a highwayman, then the cap serves to identify him as a housebreaker and lands him in jail, while the innocent cause of his trouble becomes his cellmate for another reason. Eventually a distracted wife rescues both her husband and Harold from the clutches of the law, the cap this time aiding him to regain his freedom.

A short film starring Harold Lloyd.

Harold Lloyd starred in the successful Lonesome Luke series. However, he soon grew tired of the obvious Charlie Chaplin imitation. In an attempt to reinvent himself, Lloyd donned a pair of horn-rimmed glasses, and thus, a new comedy legend was born. Setting himself against Chaplin, Lloyd's "glasses character" was an everyman, a resourceful go-getter who embodied the ambitious, success-seeking attitude of 1920s America.

Harold invades the "Gilded Guzzle" café, where he appropriates a lady's roll of money, hides under a table and impersonates a cigar store Indian.

A short film starring Harold Lloyd.

Timothy (Dickie Moore), an orphan, is sent with his sister, Gay (Sally Martin), to a farm run by Vilda Cummins (Elizabeth Patterson, an old maid with a dislike for children. Timothy eventually wins her over, and also pushes along the romance for her niece, Martha (Eleanore Whitney), with David Masters (Tom Keene).

Matronly great aunt Emily went off to Africa and left behind her wanna be snobbish family. Ten years later, upon her death, the greedy family members awaits the reading of the will. Ready to celebrate their fortunes the family gathers the evening before with a big party. A great assortment of characters, comic ones, are all expecting to get their share of the inheritance.

Brushsky, the famous color slinger, guards his prize model from the other artists. She is stolen and sent to the Model Supply Company. Joe and Monty, two ex-porters, importing artists' models, find it somewhat difficult to fill a regular customer's order, when they receive a letter from Brushsky offering a large reward for the return of his model, who he describes as having a birth-mark on her left shoulder.

Trouble is stirred up at a munitions factory by a Walking Delegate.

"Ton of Fun" comedy short.

The stooges make a whole batch of homemade beer, but get tossed in jail when Curly sells some to a cop. Their minor indiscretion turns into a forty year sentence when a keg of beer Curly has hidden under his coat explodes while the boys are being photographed. In prison the stooges get into more trouble with the warden and wind on the rockpile when they try to escape. Released as old men with long gray beards, the first thing Curly wants is a bottle of beer.

Jimmie Adams and Sid Smith comedy produced by Jack White and distributed by Educational.

Al attempts to sneak inside the studio to keep a date with an actress. He finally exchanges places with a dummy and lands within the walls of the studio, finds the girl and is promptly thrown out when he spoils several scenes and nearly causes a riot.

After being dismissed for imitating his boss's voice on radio, former Assistant District Attorney Richard Deming witnesses a store robbery and is taken captive by the criminals. Suspected of the crime, he is sought by the police, but his sweetheart, Marie, convinced of his innocence, enlists the help of two friends, a newspaper reporter and a half-witted detective. Hoping to win the girl's favor, the two go to the gangsters' hideout, encounter a violent gang war, and accidently set off a case of police tear bombs. The police, summoned by Marie, arrive just in time to save the kidnaped attorney.

Ton of Fun in a wild World War 1 slapstick comedy!

Here it's Andy Clyde in a long beard as Raymond McKee's rich uncle Dan. He quickly becomes entangled with Carmelita Geraghty, the vamp next door, and her conniving brother Bud Jamison.

The misadventures of a young man who sets out in his flivver to stop the girl he loves from being forcibly married to a rival.

A hunting comedy full of cartoonish gags.

Curly learns that he is named in the will of his rich uncle, so the boys head for the uncle's mansion to attend the reading of the will.

A fortuneteller informs Monte that he will marry the first girl he meets. After several false starts, he meets what he is sure is "the" girl. She takes him to jail, hits him with a book, and affects her brother's escape, leaving Monte inside. He finally gets out, a chase occurs and he swears off girls forever, only to be snared again.

Process server Neal Burns raids a hospital to bring a reluctant doctor to trial.

While somewhat happily married, Walter Moore's eyes do stray from time to time, especially when Tessie McNab is within his eye-sight range. But while trying to just be helpful to a damsel-in-distress, Walter's jealous wife suspects there may be some hanky-panky involved.

At the Second Annual Athletic Meet, "The Fat Men's Race" is open to anybody ~ under a ton and a half... The entries are 'Hippo' (Loback) and 'Rhino' (Parrott) who get on the scales to be weighed. Rhino is assisted by extra padding and a third leg supplied by Wallace Howe on the scales in an attempt to boost his weight. The judge spots his attempts to cheat and orders Rhino to carry extra weight in order to qualify for the race so he is stuffed with filled sacks.

The Boy, involved in a maritime disaster as a child, suffers from hydrophobia. He invents a life preserver that automatically inflates when it hits the water, using it to save the life of Rose Ryan, the daughter of a steamship magnate.

The Beagles and the Hickses are two mountain families that have been feuding all their lives. The Hickses come up with a plan to get rid of their enemies once and for all by hiring two sharpshooters to finish them off. Turns out that the "sharpshooters" aren't quite all they're cracked up to be, resulting in some unintended consequences.

Wanted – $5,000 is a 1919 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd and Bebe Daniels.

Bees in His Bonnet is a 1918 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd. It is presumed to be lost.

The Lamb is a 1918 American short comedy film starring Harold Lloyd. It is believed to be lost.

A milquetoast trucker is bullied by his domineering wife.

The three fat boys make the discovery that they are late for the barber school. There they ply their trade on various interesting customers.

After many outrageous moments, a young girl marries her former acquaintance, not with her fiancee.

After many outrageous moments, a young girl marries her former acquaintance, not with her fiancee.

Clancy's Kosher Wedding is a 1927 silent comedy film directed by Arvid E. Gillstrom.