Slapstick Comedy Movies

Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.

“Mammy is washing her little pickaninny. She thrusts him, kicking and struggling, into a tub full of foaming suds.” (Edison film catalog)

A man offers a bottle of fruit punch to a stranger.

After failing to give a woman flowers, dorky Melvin must race through a hostile, disorienting building and catch up with the woman of his dreams to...

The sudden disappearance of Peter’s girlfriend, Penny Price, accompanied by a breakup note, has Peter drowning in denial; there must be a...

An extension of the Benign Violation theory of comedy developed by Tom Veatch and A. Peter McGraw and Caleb Warren. Source: The Cure (1917) Dir....

An egotistical Frank Sinatra impersonator hopes to make it big time, but nothing seems to go his way.

A documentary film maker goes into the forest to film a tribe of primitive people living there. He finds out there are two when he gets there. He is...

A jaded used car salesman, under the threat of losing his job, struggles to find a car for his most difficult client yet: A group of circus clowns.

Turning to alcoholism following his wife's death, a deaf painter is very confused when he finds her alive two years later.

Bachelor Dizzy with a Dame or Two follows the misadventures of Sexman, a hopelessly overconfident bachelor who spends every weekend lining up a new...

A bumbling father attempts to improve his teenage son’s birthday after no one shows up to his party.

Max starts out at a costume store to get a costume for a party. He sees a suit of armor and purchases it. He wears it to the party and gets kind of...

Mutt and Jeff get involves in Russian affairs.

Max, who fears dogs, is chased by them through the city, over walls, and even up a chimney and onto a roof.

Musty Suffer gets a job as a maid. Then he gets a job as a butler, in the same household. Then he gets a job as a gardener. This becomes...

A defaulter avoids paying his fees, so he tries to install a TV antenna in his room. The rest of his family helps him, but in the end the man loses...

Three coworkers try a smoking a cigarette and everything goes to hell.

The mishaps of a man who steps into the street wearing his brand-new white suit, and who instantly encounters every conceivable insult to his suit's...

A 1922 comedy short.