Movies: William Hauber

Mae Busch and Charley Chase are in love. However, her father does not approve. A Baron sees Mae and concocts a fake kidnapping in order to get her attention. In other words, he pays two guys to pretend to try to abduct her and the Baron waltzes in li...

The storm, which takes up most of the second reel, is a trial run for the storm sequence in The Wizard Of Oz which Semon would make in 1925. Fox released a comedy that was an exact copy of Lightning Love just before the Semon film was due to come ou...

Young and beautiful Iva Method is spying for the police at the Dropem Inn, a sleazy club that the police suspect is a front for a bootlegging operation run by gangster Slim Chance. Chance discovers Iva's identity and kidnaps her, and the police chief...

Larry and his wife are desperately poor—with no food. However, the butcher and grocer show up to collect money they are owed and they won't take no for an answer. They are ready to take anything and everything and eventually chase the pair up onto th...

Comedy on the golf links....

Larry having to go through a lot of trouble to get his girl. All from bomb baking cooks to high flying crashes....

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, 'counter jumper' was the term used in both Britain and the U.S.A. to describe the lowest dogsbody clerk in a general store or emporium. Here, Semon is employed in that capacity in an Old West general store t...

Chester Conklin steals some hot dogs from the traveling vendor and brings the lady some flowers, then a chase ensues including a chase over roof tops and a lot of rapid-fire action....

Fatty rescues the daughter of the police commisioner and is given a job as an officer as a reward, but its not all its cracked up to be!...

The Midnight Taxi is a 1928 early part-talkie thriller picture from Warner Bros. directed by John G. Adolfi and starring Antonio Moreno, Helen Costello, and Myrna Loy. It is unknown whether a sound copy survives, but a silent copy with no talking is ...

Larry falls afoul of wanted criminal Gentleman Joe, who runs a saloon full of tough guys and gunslingers....

Moving Picture World categorized the film as “a nonsense number”, but Normand's Won in a Closet, her second as director, displays her burgeoning talent. Mabel’s father, the country constable, is smitten with the mother of the boy Mabel imagines “her ...

Fatty's Finish is a 1914 comedy short....

Mother's Boy is a 1913 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Alice Davenport....

A man goes fishing in the same pond where a burglar has thrown a sock of money stolen from the man's house....

Fatty and Mabel go to the San Diego Exposition....

Jim, the apple of his mother's eyes, is the big-hearted galoot of a man and is sheriff of his small town. He is sweet on Nell, who he has known all his life. Just as he is about to propose to her, he finds out that he has missed his opportunity as Di...

Fatty's Day Off is a 1913 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Charles Avery....

Cobbler Meyer puts Limburger cheese in the shoes of grocer Schnitz to sabotage his attendance with Mabel at a house party....

A Keystone comedy of rival suitors fighting over a girl....