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Dir: Jess Robbins

A presentation of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" with variations that provoke mirth.

Dir: Jess Robbins

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of What's Up? perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Cliff is to meet Rose under an umbrella but he has trouble as everyone has an umbrella. He has trouble with an elderly gent who turns out to be Rose's father. To get the best of the old man, Cliff dons a mustache and later puts on women's clothes. Father falls for him and also gets in trouble with another woman who starts the crowd after him as a masher. Much of the action takes place around an amusement park. The principals enter small autos and chase around finally leaving the enclosure and dashing into the water.

Dir: Jess Robbins

Through sheer bluff Rodney Marvin ( Edward Everett Horton ) gets a job on a newspaper; becomes editor Matt Hayward's ( James Corrigan ) partner; and brings about a reconciliation between Hayward and his long time enemy, Mayor Gorham ( Lloyd Ingraham ).

Dir: Jess Robbins

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Too Much Business perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Jimmy, arriving in the town, which is unable to keep a sheriff in office on account of the villainous doings of the villain, gang leader and his band, takes delight in beating up the villain, the latter attempts to kiss the girl against her will. She appeals to him to take the Sheriff's job and he does so. At first it appears as though he may join his predecessors, but the tide of battle turns in his favor; he beats up the villain; scares the gang out of town and settles down in earnest to his job. His plans to marry the heroine are frustrated, when she turns up with her husband-to-be-who proves to be no other than the previous gang-leader. Jimmy, unable face the happiness of the two, turns his sheriff's job over to the reformed gang-leader and leaves the town.

Dir: Jess Robbins

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Jess Robbins

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of He Laughs Last perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

An aspiring writer chases after a pair of crooks when her handbag is taken.

Dir: Jess Robbins

Jimmy is playing William Tell in an ally with several children until a cop is shot with an arrow, starting a chase. The girl is going to be ransomed by a ruffian for her grandfathers millions and Jimmy has to step in and save the day.

Dir: Jess Robbins

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

Position is everything in life, and Wanda, from the sidewalk, is riding in a limousine. But when the gas buggy stops, and she doesn't - it is highly evident that she has only been riding on a bicycle. A traffic cop orders her to halt. Fire engines tear down the street. Wanda dashes madly ahead. The cop tries to stop her. He falls across her handle-bars. They beat the engine, dash through a construction shanty, and he falls into a plaster vat, she onto a beam which is being raised into the air. The dinner whistle blows, and she has to struggle down as best she can. She slides on a hot bolt, tips over a bucket and a few other things, causing a vamp to get all splashed by plaster, so that the cop pinches said vamp instead. A young engineer asks her to go riding with him. Wanda cautiously takes her bike. The flivver shakes and finally stops near a roadhouse. The vamp is in a passing machine, with a deep-dyed villain. Meanwhile, Wanda steals away on her bike. The villain tells the engineer that his lady friend will drive him to a telephone. And the two go to the roadhouse. Avoiding a passing machine, Wanda dashes into the roadhouse. The villain accidentally starts the flivver, which backs into the cabaret - and into a big swimming pool. But it all ends romantically perfect when the engineer leaves the vamp flat, and drives out of the tank with Wanda.

Dir: Jess Robbins

In their first screen appearance together, Stan plays a penniless dog lover and Oliver plays a crook who tries to rob him and his new paramour.

Dir: Jess Robbins

Jimmy is having fun in the surf when he is swallowed by a whale, gets into a fight with both a palm tree and an octopus, and saves the day all while the lifeguard is distracted by bathing beauties.