Leo McCarey Movies

A heat wave sends the residents of a New York City tenement to their fire escapes for whatever breeze is stirring. The tenants are a cross section...

Locuras de amor is a comedy short from Charley Chase with all speaking Spanish

A woman's two sons pretend to be insane in order to de-rail their mother's plans to remarry.

The situation is typically embarrassing and unlikely-but-possible for Charley, but it is at the same time such a simple idea -- Charley shows off by...

A movie cameraman is on the lookout for new material but a rival plans to copy everything he films.

This funny Hal Roach comedy has Jimmy Jump (Charley Chase) waking up late for his wedding so in the mad rush he ends up leaving his house only...

A doting father who plays Santa Claus for Christmas annoys a trolley full of people when he lugs a giant Christmas tree home.

Aching Youth is a silent comedy short

A widow has married rich, but didn't tell her husband about her son. And he's coming for a surprise visit. To hide his identity he is introduced as...

A man finds out that his wife wishes he would act more like his twin brother, so he decides to impersonate his twin in an attempt to determine his...

Imagine My Embarrassment is a silent comedy short

Jimmy Jump brings his bride to a new bungalow home, selected and furnished by him. All the neighbors come to call that first evening. The man next...

A man delivering a pair of trousers loses his own pants, setting off a chaotic sequence of events.

Charley Chase is a hapless inventor with a better mouse trap in this silent comedy from 1925.

Charlie is the great divorce attorney, in demand by all women wishing to shed their husbands. While explaining to one woman how to obtain a divorce...

The two-reel silent film comedy The Caretaker's Daughter was distributed by Pathe in 1925. Produced by the prolific Hal Roach, the film stars the...

Charley Chase slapstick comedy short where he gets involved with a ventriloquist dummy among other wacky adventures.

With all speaking French, Chase joins a golf club to win its president's daughter. The game descends into chaos when the other players conspire...

Charley is called upon to go out with his boss on a date with the boss' mistress, to act as a beard.