Ben Turpin Movies

A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Fatty Arbuckle, Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Charley Chase, and Laurel and Hardy.

Ben and fiancée Haver run a bakery and grocery. A mostly lost film, only seven minutes survive.

The Busy Business Boy lands at his desk like the Early Bird with the intention of tearing off a week or two of correspondence in an hour or so. But...

Rube Miller & Ben Turpin enters a harem.

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...

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

Set in Paris, the story concentrates on the romantic triangle involving cabaret singer Liane, bon vivant Tony and petty crook Jean.

A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a means of raising money.

The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of edition #1, then a tribute to movie people who have...

Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and hear multiple silent-screen favorites for the...

This film is a compilation, with narration by Steve Allen, of comedies from the old Mack Sennett silent studio. Sennett, himself, appears in a cameo...

Ben Turpin's rival marries his college sweetheart played by Phyllis Haver.

An employee in a theater showing Valentino's "The Shiek" daydreams about himself playing Valentino's role.

A Mack Sennett slapstick comedy featuring the cross-eyed man Ben Turpin.

Sardonic commentary over an abridged version of DOWN ON THE FARM (1920).

The custom of young women "tagging" men on the public streets (on a day specially set aside and called "Tag Day") to secure funds for various...

Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her...

Broncho Billy becomes engaged. A month later the engagement is broken when the girl's father comes into a fortune. She moves to the city with her...

The day starts off as any normal day on Roach's farm, where Teddy, the farmhouse dog, is doing more productive work than everyone else combined. But...

The production serves as a nostalgic black-and-white compilation that rescues classic short films from the American silent film era. These clips are...