Charles Reisner Movies

The policy-racket reaches it lean, bony fingers into the ivy-towers of a large university and the underworld trying to “beat the...

In this Warner Bros. short film, Alex visits his sister Belinda and her husband Fred. It looks like Alex is going to be around for a while, much to...

A scorned woman dreams of revenge on the man who betrayed her.

Unfinished pre-Code era film consisting of three sections with past performers from the stage and the vaudeville circuit, then-present-day performers...

A former jockey teaches a newcomer the dirty tricks of the track.

Wealthy Sam Hunter is approached by scheming Richard Whitehead about investing in oil. There appears to be no oil, and everyone is angry until oil is...

Aubrey cons Amy into thinking he's a railroad bigwig. When he loses his job he takes one wearing a sandwich board. After he helps Joe sell his patent...

A newspaper reporter investigates the near-fatal shooting of a medical scientist.

A Navy veteran takes up boxing and winds up killing his own friend in the ring during a championship match.

Arthur Wells, an impoverished poet, impersonates a big-game hunter in an attempt to locate the missing link. However, the poet has an aversion to...

Homesick for America, Jack and his pals get aboard a ship U. S.-bound disguised as entertainers. As entertainers they're flops, but evoke...

Two loony buddies get caught up in a Chinese revolution.

An homage to NYC in the form of a short travelogue.

Landladies Polly Smith and Marie Jones, who operate boardinghouses on the same side of the street, are afflicted with numerous petty envies and...

His Lying Heart is a silent comedy short.

When her sister dies, a nightclub singer is left with her children. In order to raise the children properly, she leaves her singing career and takes...

The Fortune Hunter is a lost 1927 silent film comedy directed by Charles Reisner and starring Syd Chaplin. It is based on the 1909 Broadway play The...

A young girl and her two brothers are sent to a children's home after their older brother, who is the only one supporting them, winds up in jail.

A girl gets trapped by racketeers and chaos happens at a gambling house.

A wealthy young man disguises himself as a gardener to be near the woman he secretly loves. He discovers that the butler is an enemy spy who plans to...