Public Domain Movies - Comedy

Boys of the City

East Side Kids, Bowery Boys, Leo Gorcey

In the second East Side Kids film, Muggs and the gang are on their way to summer camp when they give a judge a lift to his gloomy mansion. After he later turns up dead, the kids find themselves searching dark passageways dominated by the sinister Minerva Urecal in their quest for the killer.

Misbehaving Husbands


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

His Girl Friday iPod

Romance, comedy

Hilarious romantic comedy starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell. Russell is rough and tumble reporter looking to get out of the news racket by marrying and becoming a house wife after her divorce from newspaper publisher Grant. Just when she is about to leave town with her husband-to-be the still lovesick Grant drafts her to cover one final breaking news sensation.

My Dear Secretary

romance, comedy

Would-be writer Laraine Day takes a job as secretary to best-seller Kirk Douglas. You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page.

The Bashful Bachelor

comedy, Lum and Abner

The second film in the movie adaptation of Lum and Abner radio program.

Three Broadway Girls


A trio of money hungry women who all have sugar daddies who keep them in the lap of luxury, even as they drive the men crazy. Each woman represents a different personality type, from sensitive, to kind-hearted, to difficult and untrustworthy. Stars Joan Blondell.

Pot o' Gold

comedy, musical, romance

Taken from IMDB: Jimmy, the owner of a failed music shop, goes to work with his uncle, the owner of a food factory. Before he gets there, he befriends an Irish family who happens to be his uncle's worst enemy because of their love for music and in-house band who constantly practices. Soon, Jimmy finds himself trying to help the band by getting them gigs and trying to reconcile the family with his uncle, an avid music-hater, all while winning the heart of the beautiful Molly!

Charlie Chaplin's "Between Showers"

Charlie Chaplin, Silents

Charlie Chaplin's 4th Released Feb. 28 1914 Between Showers was a short film made by Keystone Studios and directed by Henry Lehrman. It starred Charlie Chaplin, Ford Sterling, Emma Bell Clifton, and Chester Conklin. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0003679/

Bowery Blitzkrieg

comedy, East Side Kids

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

The Playhouse

silent, comedy, Buster Keaton

The opening scene, a dream sequence prior to the vaudeville routines which follow, is what makes this film famous. In it Keaton plays everyone in a theatre simultaneously (through multiple exposures). He is the band leader, all its members, the dancers on the stage and everyone in the audience.

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