Madeline Hurlock Movies

An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century through the 1920s.

Two barbers, Billy and Andy head out West when one of their customers tells them that gold can literally be scooped up off the ground. Unbeknownst to...

A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Will Rogers, Laurel and Hardy, and the Keystone Cops.

An island princess falls in love with a young man whose picture she sees in the newspaper. Her father, the king, sends his agents to the U.S. to...

Billy and Andy impersonate two ice-delivery men in a suburban town. Billy takes a fancy to a newly-wed bride and most of his loose cash is liquidated...

The movie makers are filming the next installment of the western serial "Get Your Man". The movie's leading man wants his stunt double to do the next...

A boat race rivalry erupts into comical danger.

Romance hits a football player when he falls for an aviatrix.

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...

Harry Doolittle wakes up on the day he's to marry Betty Bright. He has a terrible hangover. A strange woman appears in his room saying that he...

Billy Bevan and Andy Clyde are hobos who happen upon a train and are hired as cooks.

A Billy Bevan slapstick comedy short.

Silent comedy short film starring Ben Turpin

The plot has Ben Turpin as the prince of a mythical country who is being forced to wed a princess not of his choosing. In 1947, an outfit headed by...

To make her boyfriend jealous a society girl starts dating a plumber but his sweetheart gets revenge.

Ben returns from the big city with his pockets full of cash. A hard-hearted, gold-digging vamp ensnares him. Ben enjoys being ensnared. In order to...

In and out of the water, Billy makes waves at the Blue Point Beach Club.

For Sale, a Bungalow is a 1927 comedy short

Our hero is the town's photographer and its sheriff. He' in love with a young woman who's also pursued by the older, more devious Dudley Somerset....

Two circus hands create chaos.