Hal Roach Studios Movies

This offbeat comedy from future Hollywood screwball director McCarey is about a princess who must find a husband in 24 hours or forfeit her throne. Sh...

Stan and Ollie are mousetrap salesmen hoping for better business in Switzerland, with Stan's theory that because there is more cheese in Switzerland,...

Dimwitted Cuthbert Hope is enlisted in the army, and gets himself and his sergeant in constant trouble.

The story of the first Thanksgiving is re-imagined as a father tells it to his son.

A short comedy by Leo McCarey about a Jewish father who is worried about his daughter.

Marie's inebriated husband refuses to go to bed, so she asks Snub, a homeless man she finds sleeping in the park, to assist.

Laurel and Hardy are convicts making an escape from prison.

An unethical merchant moves into town and steals customers from the widowed owner of an established store; the gang steps in to help.

It's Prohibition, and the boys wind up behind bars after Stan sells some of their home-brew beer to a policeman. In prison, Stan's loose tooth keeps g...

Charley agrees to go on a blind date to help out his roommate. But because his last such date turned out badly, he goes all out trying to make himself...

Charley tries to get a photograph taken with his wife and child.

Jimmie Jump is returning from Europe to the USA. His parents and an old girl-friend, Sally - whom he hasn't seen for years, are expecting him at the d...

The gang tries to dissuade their teacher from getting married.

Stan is a sailor whose girl gets kidnapped by a rough sea captain. Stan dresses in drag and seduces the captain but the captain's wife catches him. St...

Inexperienced waiters (Laurel & Hardy) are hired for a swank dinner party.

Harry is trapped with a blonde in a burning building.

Charley, representing a manufacturer of musical instruments, is sent to investigate why certain mail orders have not been settled. Charley, carrying m...

Mrs. Hardy throws Ollie and Stan out of the house. They try to impress two young ladies at a golf course and end up fighting with other golfers.

Agnes Ayres was apparently a star of feature film who is top billed in this one-off Hal Roach short. She does well as the woman at the centre of the s...

Harry is made the temporary stationmaster in a small town.