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Dir: Charley Chase

The premise of this film is two rival men pursuing the same girl. In the mean time a gang of car thieves are going around town stealing cars and then reselling them to their original owners. The rich man takes the girl to see a minister to get married so the other man comes up with a plot to have the car thief gang help him win the girl back.

Dir: Charley Chase

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Find the Girl perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

An entire newspaper staff makes great efforts to get the news about a wealthy damsel who has been abducted. After much of the riotous, hero Snub effects the rescue.

Dir: Charley Chase

Snub invades a harem in Turkey, where they teach the harem ladies how to dance the shimmy, with sad results.

Dir: Charley Chase

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Trotting Through Turkey perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Snub's creditors are so insistent that he decides to end it all and let his wife collect the insurance.

Dir: Charley Chase

Charlie (West) stays at a seaside lodging house frequented by sailors. He gets involved with a gang of crooks when a sea captain attempts to kidnap his landlady's daughter.

Dir: Charley Chase

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of The Dear Departed perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Snub and his girl break a mirror, walk under a ladder, a black cat crosses their path, and they meet a cross eyed man. Some amusing misadventures follow.

Dir: Charley Chase

Snub, a henpecked husband, joins an equally unhappy man on the floor below. They rebel and turn the tables on their wives.

Dir: Charley Chase

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Ship Ahoy perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

The conflict between moonshiners and revenuers.

Dir: Charley Chase

Two men on their way home from the club, fall asleep on the curb, considerably the worse for liquor. They dream that they have gone to a land where there are no wives and finally they meet with a bunch of Indians, who lead them a merry chase, from which they awaken to the realities of life when a policeman shakes them.

Dir: Charley Chase

Two hotel bell hops get into all kinds of shenanigans between dames, baths and bags of loot.