Comedies

THE FAMILY SECRET (1924), the 3rd feature-length film to star "Baby Peggy" Montgomery is one of her best pictures and is presented here in a new archival restoration. Baby Peggy plays the young daughter of a woman whose father had opposed her marriage to...

Coup De Filet (Stand Off French Version) DVD

Marcel Perez starred in comedy shorts from 1910-1923, but his films have been unknown, lost, or unavailable until recently. His screen character and comic/directorial sensibilities have won him a new reputation among classic film fans. Now, 8 more rare...

Accidentally Preserved: Rare and Lost Silent Films from Vintage 16mm Prints is a DVD series of rare/lost silent film shorts that only survive because 16mm copies of silent movies were made in the 1920s, 30s and 40s for people to rent and watch at home...

This second volume of "whirls" from the 1916-17 silent comedy film series THE MISHAPS OF MUSTY SUFFER: VOLUME 2 features four more entries in which Musty Suffer works in an arcade and as a messenger boy, has his body and face repeatedly mangled in the...

After his movie and television career has run dry, Bruce Madsen (Adam Carolla) is forced to go back on the road playing one dingy comedy club after another, spending endless nights in budget hotel rooms and always flying coach. Amidst trying to...

Vie De Chien DVD

The Mishaps of Musty Suffer was a series of comedy shorts released weekly, in three series of ten films, from 1916-17. It was popular, successful and well-reviewed... and yet it is almost completely forgotten today. Playing Musty Suffer was Ziegfield...

Perhaps the best silent film comedian whom no one's ever heard of is Marcel Perez. Part of the first generation of screen clowns, his career began in 1900 and flourished until 1928. During that time, he helped create the ground rules for the genre in...

Dan's been HIV positive for 22 years. He's got his $3,000-a-month pill regimen down like clockwork, but when he deposits a $100 birthday check and suddenly doesn't qualify for his assisted healthcare plan, he's got to scramble to get his life together or...

In 1913, the Thomas Edison Company made talking pictures using a sound-on-cylinder system called The Kinetophone. These pioneering sound movies were shown in theatres for about a year, and featured vaudeville acts, comedy sketches, dramatic scenes and...

Accidentally Preserved: Rare and Lost Silent Films from Vintage 16mm Prints is a DVD series of rare/lost silent film shorts that only survive because 16mm copies of silent movies were made in the 1920s, 30s and 40s for people to rent and watch at home...