Ben Turpin Movies

Compilation of comedy sketches from the comedy kings Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Danny Kaye & Bing Crosby.

Basically this is a commercial for Hollywood's Lido Lounge and for MGM contract players. The Lido is a large watering hole; we visit one afternoon...

This short film takes a nostalgic look at the Mack Sennett comedies of the silent cinema era.

Ben and fiancée Haver run a bakery and grocery. A mostly lost film, only seven minutes survive.

Sweedie, the cook, decides that it would be nice to learn to swim, so goes to a "dry land" swimming class for instruction. She is thrown out of the...

Sweedie, the cook at the Rich household, buys a donkey from the captain of the police, but forgets to pay for it. He raids the house in an effort to...

Sweedie has fallen in love with the grocery boy, and in order to gaze upon his smiling face orders groceries at every possible opportunity.

An employee in a theater showing Valentino's "The Shiek" daydreams about himself playing Valentino's role.

Café de Luxe's owner comes back to his restaurant after a vacation.

The Busy Business Boy lands at his desk like the Early Bird with the intention of tearing off a week or two of correspondence in an hour or so. But...

In this silent comedy, a pretty department store cashier is charged with a robbery that occurred overnight at the store. However, circumstantial...

Pitfalls of a Big City is a 1923 short comedy

Peter Sellers makes funny voice narration over the Chaplin film A Burlesque on Carmen (1915).

A tramp heads home drunk on a Saturday night, finding it hard to make it to his room. When he finally does, he cannot make it to his bed.

Ambrose (Mack Swain) is a clumsy, aspiring cook who finds himself in over his head when he is hired to work in a busy household or restaurant. Most...

"Chick" Evans, western amateur golf champion, is seen playing golf with his sister. Sweedie is the cook for a family of "get-rich-quicks" and treated...

Broncho Billy becomes engaged. A month later the engagement is broken when the girl's father comes into a fortune. She moves to the city with her...

Sam, a young man in a small town, is accused of being a thief. Unable to prove his innocence--and not knowing that he's being framed by a local...

An inventor and his assistant build a robot that looks like their janitor, and everyone tries to profit off the invention.

A slick city crook arrives in the town and succeeds in making honest Nell fall in love with him. He then suggests an entertainment with local talent,...