Public Domain Movies - Comedy

Convict 13

Silent, Comedy, Buster Keaton

Buster is playing golf with Sybil when he gets knocked out. An escaped prisoner changes clothes with him. Buster goes to prison and learns that he is to be hanged. He changes clothes with a guard just as prisoner Roberts attacks all the guards.

His Girl Friday - 1940

His Girl Friday, Film, comedy, Drama, romance

His Girl Friday is a 1940 American comedy film directed by Howard Hawks starring Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell and Ralph Bellamy. Walter Burns (Cary Grant) is a newspaper editor who learns his ex-wife is about to marry a bland insurance man and settle down to a quiet life. Walter determines to sabotage these plans and uses every trick in the book to keep his ex-wife from remarrying. This movie is public domain.

Smart Alecks


You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page.

Love Laughs at Andy Hardy

Drama, comedy, romance, Mickey Rooney

This film starts with Andy Hardy returning home after serving in the army. And it's not too long before he's caught up in the usual Hardy capers. Stars Mickey Rooney as the freshman and Lewis Stone as his dad.

Three Broadway Girls

comedy

Three "former chorus girls" team up to capture rich husbands. But they spend as much time fighting with each other as they do the men they try to snare. This film is based on a a play by Zoe Akins "The Greeks Had A Word For It" which is also the basis for the softer and more genteel 50s version "How To Mary A Millionaire". Stars Joan Blondell.

Jack and the Beanstalk

Abbott & Costello, musical, movies, fairy tales, public domain, films, Classic

Abbot and Costello musical, based on the fairytale You can read more about this movie on it's IMDB page

Midnight Manhunt

Comedy, crime, Reporters, Jewel Thieves, murder

Stolen diamonds are at the heart of a game of body, body, who's got the body played by two reporters, a crook, two employees of a wax museum, and the police. Stars: William Gargan, Ann Savage, Leo Gorcey, George Zucco, Paul Hurst, Don Beddoe, Charles Halton, and George E. Stone IMDb Page The 676MB MPEG4 file was derived from the 3GB MPEG2 found on this page.

His New Profession

Silent, Comedy, Charles Chaplin

An oddly enjoyable comedy full of violence & nasty behavior

The Flapper

comedy, romance, Adventure

A small town girl attends boarding school, dreams of romantic adventures, and has some. Stars: Olive Thomas, Theodore Westman, Jr., William P. Carlton, Jr., Warren Cook, Katherine Johnston, Arthur Johnston, Frances Marshall, and Marcia Harris IMDb Page Wikipedia Page

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