Hal Roach Movies

Papa Gimplewart chaperones his daughter and her "steady" during a beach adventure.

Laurel and Hardy attempt to put up an aerial with disastrous results. Spanish language version of Hog Wild (1930).

While the other kids and animals find things to do on the farm, Farina becomes single-minded in his quest to do nothing at all.

Paul Parrott plays an obsessive-compulsive bill poster in this thoroughly average Hal Roach comedy from 1923. Hired to help publicize a new Gloria...

Charley and his buddies are captured and imprisoned by an Arabian sultan.

Rose, who works for a penny-pinching junk dealer, dreams of romance with wealthy bachelor Ted Tudor.

While trying to track down Butch, Spanky and Alfalfa get caught up in a dance recital.

The circus is in town and for one day only. By pretending to be sick some of the gang members were able to play hooky from school so as to attend the...

In this short the kids are managing their own barber shop, with harrowing results. No one gets hurt, but most of the customers wind up bald or close...

Mother's Joy is a 1923 silent comedy film starring Stan Laurel.

Stan plays a waiter at a crappy restaurant and frankly such fare was better done by Chaplin and others. However, in two cute scenes, the film shines....

A man starts working in a department store and has to deal with a female kleptomaniac.

The gang mistakenly believes a police patrol is after them for beating up a cop's boy; they wind up encountering the police's real quarry: Red Mike.

Charley suffers a hysterical reaction whenever a woman touches him; a psychiatrist attempts to help him overcome his panicked reflex.

In order to get his daughter away from her suitors, her father decides to spirit her away to Bermuda. Our hero, however, stows away on the ship. When...

Punctual Pete prepares the "Shaved in Silence" shop for the day's business. He is as handy as a man with five thumbs. Gertie, almost a soubrette,...

Harried Max Davidson squares off against his grumpy neighbor James Finlayson resulting in a barrage of property destruction, chases, and silent-era...

Glenn's first attempt at wearing long trousers and being a man about town goes swimmingly as he quickly falls for a vivacious young widow who...

The gang decided to go into the movie-making business, using all kinds of sets and props. There were problems as those not involved are trying to...

Jeanette and Eddie get married, but their wedding night is a fiasco. First, their wedding guests follow them, resulting in a police chase, then the...