James Finlayson Movies

This short features two women who run around in their nighties. Paul McCullough spends most of the picture in a dress, and Bobby Clark does an...

Pitfalls of a Big City is a 1923 short comedy

Two burglars break into the home of an eccentric doctor. The doctor catches them, but offers to let them go free -- and give them a thousand dollars...

At Thanksgiving, a tramp arrives in a homeless-hostile town.

Ma and Pa Slocum sell up their thriving packed-lunch business (based on Ma's home cooking, Pa's packaging design, and pretty daughter Helen's...

A millionaire acquires a large diamond, said to be cursed. Despite the best efforts of his dutiful but fearful black valet (Oliver Hardy), it is...

Johnny Hines flies in from Chicago early to surprise wife Doris Phillips and their infant. Meanwhile, Miss Phillips is preparing to take the baby...

The crotchety dean of Pinkham University blames the "bad behavior of the school's female students on a dress shop owned by Helene, and informs her...

Sir Patrick attempts to marry a young lady against her will. Nice guy Stan Laurel tries to help out but gets thrown in jail for his trouble.

Charley finds himself having strange spells during which everything around him seems to stop.

Where's My Wandering Boy This Evening? is a comedy short released in 1923

When Charley's wife buys a bulldog for his birthday present and has a special key made for the room in which she keeps it, trouble begins. He finds...

Clark & McCullough are arrested for disturbing the peace. They steal the police car and return it to the station. The new police commissioner...

Stan is a lazy employee at a lumber company. Much of the first portion of the film has to do with Stan trying to sneak into work late--past the...

An unconventional super detective (Snub) pursues a trio of crooks who've stolen the fortune of his girlfriend's father. Along the way, absurd things...

A troupe of actors stranded in a small town take job as recreation directors in a sanitarium and hilarity ensues.

This Hal Roach comedy short I found on the "American Slapstick" DVD collection of rare silent comedies starts bizarre and has an anything...

James Finlayson manages to con Charley into becoming his partner in a failing dry cleaning shop that has been targeted by gangsters running a...

After their house is blown away by a twister, a farmer and his wife decide to move to California. Once over the border they're greeted by rain, hail,...

Knockabout comedy in which woman marries widower each having a child of their own which the other knows nothing about.