Spencer Bell
Actor · 1887 – 1935 · Lexington, Kentucky, USA
Movies24
Movie5.5ComedyFamilyA farm girl learns she is a princess and is swept away by a tornado to the land of Oz.
The Wizard of Oz
1925 · 52 votes
Movie6.4ComedyThe storm, which takes up most of the second reel, is a trial run for the storm sequence in The Wizard Of Oz which Semon would make in 1925. Fox released a comedy that was an exact copy of Lightning Love just before the Semon film was due to come out. Albert E. Smith noticed the similarities and on September 5, 1923 attempted to have the Fox film pulled from the exhibitors.
Lightning Love
1923 · 5 votes
Movie5.8ComedyTwo men bear the name Joe Holt. One is a shipping clerk, the other a champion Canadian swimmer. When a socialite gets them confused, thinking the clerk is the inventor of an unsinkable swim suit, she enters him in a 20 mile swim race.
You Said a Mouthful
1932 · 5 votes
- Movie10.0Comedy
Exasperated by his playboy son, a wealthy man sends him to Canada to become a Royal Canadian Mountie, in hopes that the young man will learn something about life.
Below Zero
1925 · 1 votes
- Movie9.0Comedy
Cheap Skates is a lost film made by Educational Films, as a "Mermaid Comedy". Funny man Lige Conley starts scrambling when bees fly down his pants!
Cheap Skates
1925 · 1 votes
Movie7.0ComedyThe final Mickey McGuire comedy finds Mickey and the gang putting together a medicine show in order to help out Hambone's Uncle Nemo.
Mickey's Medicine Man
1934 · 1 votes
Movie5.5ComedyIn this silent comedy, a pretty department store cashier is charged with a robbery that occurred overnight at the store. However, circumstantial evidence points to the store's soda clerk having committed both the $10,000 robbery and the assumed murder of the store's nightwatchman, who is missing.
Ten Dollars or Ten Days
1924 · 4 votes
Movie6.0ComedyMickey and the gang wind up in Harold Lloyd territory, when the kids work as window washers on a dangerous skyscraper.
Mickey's Thrill Hunters
1931 · 2 votes
- MovieComedy
Short film about the title subject played for laughs.
Matrimony Blues
1926
- Movie8.0Comedy
Mickey and the gang go prospecting, but find themselves in a haunted house.
Mickey's Covered Wagon
1933 · 1 votes
Movie6.5DramaThe Midnight Taxi is a 1928 early part-talkie thriller picture from Warner Bros. directed by John G. Adolfi and starring Antonio Moreno, Helen Costello, and Myrna Loy. It is unknown whether a sound copy survives, but a silent copy with no talking is in the care of the British Film Institute. The silent print runs just under 50 minutes. According to the Library of Congress, the film survives in British Film Institute's National Film and Television Archive.
The Midnight Taxi
1928 · 2 votes
Movie7.0Drama"The Prince of Broadway" George Burke, heavyweight boxing champion of the world, trains by drinking and dancing all night. After he is knocked out, his manager tears up his contract and tells him he is through. His sweetheart, actress Nancy Lee rescues him from the gutter and asks her admirer, Wade Turner to take him to his ranch to get back in shape. Wade, jealous of George, tells his foreman, Buck Marshall, to hinder George's comeback. Wade’s neighbor, former champ Jim Jeffries offers to help George get back into condition. Trying for the advantage Wade tells Nancy that George is not training, but when she goes out to the ranch, she uncovers the conspiracy. George regains the championship and wins Nancy's hand.
The Prince of Broadway
1926 · 1 votes
Movie5.7ComedyThe plot of this film really isn't that important. Instead, the sight gags and chase scenes are paramount--with some of the most impressive chase footage you'll ever see. All the near-misses with the speeding train were amazing and the scene where the car gets smashed by the truck are absolutely priceless.
The Cloudhopper
1925 · 6 votes
- Movie8.0
In order to pay back Stinky Davis, Mickey becomes an organ grinder, and later put on a minstrel show.
Mickey's Minstrels
1934 · 1 votes
Movie7.0ComedyA detective sets out to nab Notorious Nora, the tough female leader of a gang whose headquarters is in a dangerous speakeasy. He decides to infiltrate her gang in order to get the goods on her, but things don't turn out exactly the way he expected them to.
Oh, What a Man!
1927 · 1 votes
- Movie8.0Comedy
Mr Green tells his wife that spiritualism is the bunk. She offers to run a seance that evening. While she does so, a crooked scientist creeps in to steal a skeleton and a chicken thief does likewise to general confusion in this Universal horror-comedy short.
That's the Spirit
1924 · 1 votes
Movie9.0ComedyThe film begins with a family at home having a meal. The biggest laugh involved some candles being substituted for asparagus and the hilarity that resulted when the people and dog at them. Later, the decide to go to the rodeo but 1001 problems occur on the way there in the car.
The Rodeo
1929 · 1 votes
Movie7.2ComedyLarry has to fight off a bunch of crooks who are after his bag of jewels.
Passing the Buck
1919 · 3 votes
Movie7.5ComedyA clerk is given $10,000 to deposit at the bank, but the bank is closed for the night so he tries to get to the bank president's house with the money.
The Perfect Clown
1925 · 3 votes
- Movie10.0Comedy
"Lee [Moran] is a city chap who loves to go to the pace and is chagrined when an uncle leaves him his money provided he engages in farming. He has an inspiration and starts a farm on the roof of his apartment house, with a barn, farm vehicles, a donkey, a got and a lot of chickens." - Synopsis from Moving Picture World
Up on the Farm
1925 · 1 votes
Movie9.0ComedyMickey's Disguises
1933 · 1 votes
Movie5.8ComedyActionYoung and beautiful Iva Method is spying for the police at the Dropem Inn, a sleazy club that the police suspect is a front for a bootlegging operation run by gangster Slim Chance. Chance discovers Iva's identity and kidnaps her, and the police chief sends his bumbling son Larry to rescue her.
Her Boy Friend
1924 · 6 votes
- Movie10.0
When Billy get adopted by a rich couple, Mickey and the gang spring into action to bring their pal back home.
Mickey's Rescue
1934 · 1 votes
- Movie8.0Comedy
Mickey and his gang of children enter a mule in a racing contest.
Mickey's Race
1933 · 2 votes