Movies: Frank Alexander

After finding a note in a floating bottle, our hero is off to resue the heroine. He runs into a tribe of cannibals....

Avery DuPoys is a wealthy businessman, organising a race. He meets one of the competitors of the race, who is in love with DuPoys's daughter. Another competitor crashes into the action, who is also in love with DuPoys's daughter. DuPoys suggests that...

A bumbling sawmill employee tries to win the hand of the owner's daughter while staying out of the clutches of the mill's bullying foreman....

A comic frightfest featuring Ton o' Fun....

Semon as a detective trying to deal with some roughnecks....

A harried propman backstage at a theater must put up with malfunctioning wind machines, roosters that spit nitroglycerine, and a gang planning to rob the theater's payroll....

A timid man undergoes a personality change, and turns the tables on the people who've bullied him....

Well-meaning but accident-prone bakery employee Larry is involved in numerous slapstick mishaps on the job. After accidentally causing the bakery owner to fall into a vat of cake batter Larry finds his job in jeopardy, but he redeems himself by foili...

The plot of this film really isn't that important. Instead, the sight gags and chase scenes are paramount--with some of the most impressive chase footage you'll ever see. All the near-misses with the speeding train were amazing and the scene where th...

A man decides to stage a fake robbery in front of his girlfriend's father (who doesn't like him), hoping it will make the father change his opinion. Unfortunately, real crooks wind up taking the money from the "robbery", and the boyfriend has to get ...

The Rent Collector is a 1921 American silent comedy film featuring Larry Semon & Oliver Hardy....

An attractive young woman on trial for murder employs her feminine wiles to charm the judge and jury....

CHEER UP - starring Cliff Bowes, with Virginia Vance, Eddie Boland, and Frank Alexander. Cliff vies for Virginia's affections with Eddie, but ultimately she chooses Cliff to be her groom. The newlyweds move in to their new home, but the spurned rival...

The Ton of Fun -- aka The Three Fatties -- go out to a Wyoming ranch, where their enormous weight is about the sum total of the jokes, as in the others in this series....

Gussle Rivals Jonah is a silent comedy...

A Ton of Fun slapstick comedy short directed by Gilbert Pratt....

A farm girl learns she is a princess and is swept away by a tornado to the land of Oz....

Larry having to go through a lot of trouble to get his girl. All from bomb baking cooks to high flying crashes....

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