Franklin Pangborn Movies

An elevator operator invents a machine that he believes can help to defeat a corrupt politician in the city's upcoming mayoral election.

It is 1915 in Vienna and the Great War has caused many casualties. Elsa, a beautiful prostitute, wants to help the war effort, but is rejected as a...

After having been swindled out of all their money by a crooked business manager, formerly wealthy socialites Jerry and Carol discover that they owe...

A failed poet ends up becoming a gag writer for a bombastic comedian.

Mary stands by Jack after the Depression of 1929 but considers divorce when he again becomes successful by 1935. Bill, who loves Mary, works at...

Spanky's parents take their reluctant boy to get his portrait taken by a prissy photographer.

A theatrical troupe headed by a flashy showman finds itself in the tiny--and bankrupt--kingdom of Belgardia. The showman falls in love with the...

A wealthy society girl must live on $150 a month to prove to her father that she can stand being married to a poor man.

A small-town girl tells a small fib to a wealthy businessman; complications ensue.

A trustworthy captain is reduced in rank so that the owner's daughter's fiancé may take charge.

Radio singer Glory Eden is publicized as the ideal of American womanhood in order to sell the sponsor's product Ippsie-Wippsie Washcloths. In...

A wife decides to take revenge when she learns her husband has been unfaithful.

This film is a compilation, with narration by Steve Allen, of comedies from the old Mack Sennett silent studio. Sennett, himself, appears in a cameo...

Johnny Harron is watching the Hollywood fire department football team playing a game and decides that he can round up some Hollywood actors that...

Carol (Ruth Terry), the cigarette girl at a swank Palm Springs hotel, dreams of singing in the establishment's nightclub. She gets a chance when her...

Two yokels try to crash royal society by posing as the King's physicians.

A gang of inept crooks and even more inept lawmen search for a cache of hidden money.

After an argument, a newlywed decides to test her husband's fidelity by disguising herself as a blonde.

A British butler goes to America duped by mobsters into believing he is the heir to a fortune.

Jim is hardly thrilled when his new bride, Ellen, invites an old friend, Randy, over for dinner. Yet Jim turns genuinely dismayed once Randy arrives...