Mack Sennett Movies

An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century through the 1920s.

A writer it charged with the task of trying to come up with an exciting plot in the next chapter of a serial.

During the war, a hick soldier bursts into song at every turn.

A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country. When he sees that her father has a very large bankroll for his workers, he persuades her to elope...

Jim, the apple of his mother's eyes, is the big-hearted galoot of a man and is sheriff of his small town. He is sweet on Nell, who he has known all...

Rastus and the Game Cock is a 1913 movie starring Ford Sterling and Mack Sennett.

A villain, competing with his rival's race car, kidnaps the rival before the race. Mabel decides to take the wheel in his place.

The whimsical adventures of the impetuous Sheriff Nell (Polly Moran), who keeps Triggerville in line with an iron fist. But her heart is set on Jack,...

Narrator Hopper covers two war benefit affairs, a garden party and a USO fashion show, at Pickfair, "The White House of Hollywood."

The Tramp interferes with the celebration of several kid auto races in Venice, California (Junior Vanderbilt Cup Race, January 10 and 11, 1914),...

Laurel is a Scottish reporter suspected of being a spy by police detective James Finlayson. Although trailed by the latter, Stan, who is reporting on...

A disfigured young woman with two beautiful sisters is courted by a blind man. Will he still love her when his sight is restored?

Mabel meets a masher in the park while en route to get a position as maid. Later she finds the man was the husband of her new mistress. There is an...

A young man wants to propose to his girlfriend, but all the noises and distractions of the city prevent him from doing so. Frustrated, he decides to...

An Indian comforts a dying prospector in his last moments. In exchange, the prospector tells him the location of his gold claim. A group of cowboys...

Miner Kate Nelson strikes gold but is quickly robbed at a frontier hotel by a desperate Mexican woman, who shoots a hotel clerk during her escape....

Helen and Tom are desperate to get married. After a foiled elopement attempt, the couple hatches a “fake wedding” scheme to trick...

A wealthy invalid tries to add his hard-working cook to his will, but the conniving butler gets in the way.

Mabel, a young woman living in a large mansion, is courted by Tom Darrell, a neighbour of the same class. Meanwhile, Ruth, Mabel’s laundress,...