Hal Roach — Producer (31)
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Road Show (1941) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Road Show
director: Hal Roach actor: Adolphe Menjou / Carole Landis …
other title: Vidas ambulantes / Histoire de fous
Rich playboy Drogo Gaines is in imminent danger of marrying a gold digger, and escapes by feigning insanity. The joke's on him when he wakes up in an asylum full of comical lunatics. There he befriends Colonel Carraway, and together they escape, catching a ride with a beautiful blonde who proves to be Penguin Moore, carnival owner.
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An Eastern Westerner (1920) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
An Eastern Westerner
director: Hal Roach actor: Harold Lloyd / Mildred Davis …
other title: Ein Westernheld aus dem Osten / Pour le cœur de Jenny …
A young man in New York has exasperated his father because of his constant carousing and irresponsibility, so his father sends him to his uncle's ranch in the west. The young man arrives in the town of Piute Pass, which is being terrorized by Tiger Lip Tompkins and his gang, the Masked Angels. The Easterner befriends a young woman whose father is being held captive by Tompkins, and he decides to help her.
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Why Girls Love Sailors (1927) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Why Girls Love Sailors
director: Fred Guiol actor: Stan Laurel / Oliver Hardy …
other title: Perché le ragazze amano i marinai / Warum Mädchen Matrosen lieben …
Stan is a sailor whose girl gets kidnapped by a rough sea captain. Stan dresses in drag and seduces the captain but the captain's wife catches him. Stan and his girl beat a hasty retreat as the captain's wife fires off a parting shot.
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Love 'Em and Weep (1927) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Love 'Em and Weep
director: Fred Guiol actor: Mae Busch / Stan Laurel …
other title: Amale e piangi / Das süße Geheimnis …
Titus Tillsbury is a successful businessman who is visited by a blackmailing old flame. He enlists a friend to keep her away from his home and wife.
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Duck Soup (1927) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Duck Soup
director: Fred Guiol actor: Stan Laurel / Oliver Hardy …
other title: Zuppa d'anatra / Leichte Beute …
Fleeing a group of forest rangers, who are rounding up tramps to serve as firefighters, they take refuge in a mansion. The owner has gone on vacation and the servants are away, so Hardy pretends to be the owner and offers to rent the house to an English couple. Hardy gets Laurel to pose as the maid. Unfortunately, the owner returns and tells the would-be renters that he owns the house; Laurel and Hardy then flee again and are caught by the rangers and forced to fight wildfires.