James Finlayson Movies

Compilation of the mismatched but immortal pair's various films and shorts.

A female secret agent has gotten ahold of a new type of explosive gas. She has to avoid the efforts of two men who are trying to steal it. They...

Pick and Shovel, also known as The Miner, is a 1923 silent comedy film starring Stan Laurel.

This western comedy is about rancher Finlayson's beautiful daughter, Martha Sleeper, who refuses to marry the bad guy and how Jimmy and dimwitted...

A prosecutor instructs the audience of a courtroom to observe the tearful and slightly hysterical wife (Helen Gilmore) who is sitting in the witness...

Stan and Ollie are salesmen attempting to sell a washing machine; they fail constantly after several near misses. One would-be sale has them carrying...

"IN THE GREASE" (1925) stars James Finlayson who must raise his kid by himself and also take over the unruly class room at the local schoolhouse.

At Thanksgiving, a tramp arrives in a homeless-hostile town.

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

Stout Hearts and Willing Hands is a 1931 short comedy film directed by Bryan Foy. It was nominated for an Academy Award in 1932 for Best Short...

Charley, hoping to find cultured people in his ancestry in order to be suitable to Muriel's family, is tricked by his rival Ronnie into believing...

Two engaged vaudeville magicians quarrel and go their separate ways.

It's in three distinct segments. The first and probably best involves Charley, his girlfriend, and her father foolish her mother and the suitor she...

Two burglars break into the home of an eccentric doctor. The doctor catches them, but offers to let them go free -- and give them a thousand dollars...

As a way to make peace between two feuding Scottish clans, one invites the other over for supper, but things don't turn out quite as expected.

Pursued by the law, a street cleaner finds refuge by impersonating a dentist.

Charley Chase slapstick comedy short where he gets involved with a ventriloquist dummy among other wacky adventures.

Police officer Edgar Kennedy is warned by his police chief to make arrests to stop a burglary epidemic on his patch or face the sack.

Film historian Robert Youngson presents a feature-length anthology of rarely seen silent films by comedy legends Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Along...

When a well off man from the city arrives in a hick town to woo a wealthy widow, he encounters first an ornery model T ride to the shabby hotel, then...