Leo Willis

Movies23

• Movie6.1

  Comedy

  Charley is plagued with failure and with his brother-in-law, who's allergic to labor. When he decides to take the family on a camping trip, his wife learns about a contest sponsored by a pen company, with the first prize being an ocean trip. To win the prize Charley has to sell those pens - surprisingly he wins, but the ship turns out to be a wreck on it's last trip to the scrapyard. To make things worse they accidentally leave their young daughter on the dock and the ship sails without her. What else can go wrong on this trip?

  Isn't Life Terrible?

  1925 · 10 votes

• Movie6.8

  WesternDrama

  Brandon, a surveyor, dreams of building a railway to the west. He sets off with his son, Davy, to survey a route. They discover a new pass which will shave 200 miles off the expected distance, but they are set upon by a party of Cheyenne. One of them, a white renegade with only two fingers on his right hand, kills Brandon and scalps him. Davy is all alone now.

  The Iron Horse

  1925 · 81 votes

• Movie10.0

  Comedy

  The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a good story, McLane is persistently outscooped by his rival, sob sister Martha Allen (Mae Clarke). After several reels of double-crossing one another, hero and heroine give in to the inevitable and fall in love. But as Martha waits at the altar in her wedding gown, McLane is off on another crusade, this time getting himself arrested to expose corruption within the prison system.

  The Daring Young Man

  1935 · 1 votes

• Movie6.5

  Comedy

  The boys boycott the girls when they insist that the boys wear tuxedos to a big dance.

  Ladies Last

  1930 · 2 votes

• Movie9.0

  ComedyDrama

  To decide a wager, two young millionaires decide to take a vagrant from a lodging house and give him the name and wealth of one of the pair, to see what he will do. By mistake they seize upon a young newspaper reporter down on his luck. The reporter enters into the spirit of the idea and wins the girl of his love and gets a better job on his old paper.

  Framing Framers

  1917 · 1 votes

• Movie6.9

  ComedyAction

  An irresponsible young millionaire changes his tune when he falls for the daughter of a downtown minister.

  For Heaven's Sake

  1926 · 45 votes

• Movie5.8

  Comedy

  Mishaps befall a new home owner located next door to an insane asylum.

  Call of the Cuckoo

  1927 · 24 votes

• Movie10.0

  Comedy

  A visiting New Yorker inspires the hotel keeper toward improving his establishment.

  Strictly Modern

  1922 · 1 votes

• Movie6.3

  DramaCrime

  A tough New York cop is determined to bring down a crook who has always managed to provide an alibi for the crimes he's been accused of, even though the detective knows he's guilty of committing them.

  While the City Sleeps

  1928 · 10 votes

• Movie6.3

  ComedyDrama

  A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.

  Souls for Sale

  1923 · 22 votes

• Movie6.9

  ComedyDrama

  The timid youngest son of the most important family in town must use his wits to win the respect of his strong father and the love of a beautiful new woman in town.

  The Kid Brother

  1927 · 108 votes

• Movie6.2

  ComedyMusic

  Stan and Ollie travel with a band of 18th-century Gypsies holding a nobleman's daughter.

  The Bohemian Girl

  1936 · 61 votes

• Movie6.8

  Comedy

  Charley's battle-axe mother-in-law breaks up his marriage and tries to separate him from his son. Charlie abducts the boy for a father-son outing to the beach. The mother-in-law pursues and comedy ensues.

  No Father to Guide Him

  1925 · 2 votes

• Movie3.7

  Comedy

  Charley's in love with the daughter of a financier who wants her to insist that Chas have a pile of cash before she marries him. But, the Depression is everywhere: Charley's behind on his rent and nearly everyone he meets is down on their luck. After reading a "how to" book on the power of a forceful will, Charley applies the lessons with mixed results, but he does land a job that includes delivering a shake-down letter to his girlfriend's father. Is the naïve Charley going to end up in jail?

  The Panic Is On

  1931 · 3 votes

• Movie7.2

  ComedyWestern

  Chester Winfield tries to make it as a lumberjack, but he's foiled by his lack of strength and the jealous foreman, Big Bill Reardon, after Chester catches the eye of Hazel Wood, Big Bill's favorite and the camp's waitress. Bill tries to eliminate Chester, so he and Hazel head down the mountain for other work. She waits tables and gets him a job as a dishwasher. He spills kerosene in the soup and then must serve it to an angry customer. Hazel tells a couple of tall tales about Chester, and soon all the customers, the owner, and the cook, think he's a desperado. They make him the saloon bouncer. Some trick shooting seals his reputation. Then Big Bill arrives for a showdown.

  Boobs in the Wood

  1925 · 4 votes

• Movie6.6

  Comedy

  Street musicians Stan and Ollie have no success earning money in the dead of winter in a bad neighborhood. Their instruments are destroyed in an argument with a woman, but their luck seems to turn when Stan finds a wallet.

  Below Zero

  1930 · 73 votes

• Movie7.0

  Comedy

  When Charlie borrows the policeman's uniform of his girl's father and captures a lunatic, his prospective father-in-law dons the uniform just in time to receive the reward of $1,000.

  Sittin' Pretty

  1924 · 2 votes

• Movie6.0

  Comedy

  This funny Hal Roach comedy has Jimmy Jump (Charley Chase) waking up late for his wedding so in the mad rush he ends up leaving his house only dressed in his pajamas. As he makes his way to the church he finds one disaster after another.

  Outdoor Pajamas

  1924 · 2 votes

• Movie6.7

  CrimeDrama

  John Nelson, a well-to-do businessman, is escorting a woman he knows as Ethel Barry to the door of her apartment suite when a man steps out of the shadows and angrily demands to know where she has been. The embarrassed Nelson excuses himself and goes to his rooms in the same hotel. The woman rushes into his apartment followed by the man who met her in the hall. The man threatens her with violence and Nelson comes to her defense. In the ensuing fight, the man is knocked out of the window and falls to his death to the pavement many stories down. He is charged with the killing and his only witness that can prove self-defense for him has disappeared, and can not be found.

  Shadow of the Law

  1930 · 12 votes

• Movie5.2

  WesternAdventure

  A small town marshal’s secret past as an outlaw comes back to haunt him when an old associate shows up and threatens to expose his former dark deeds.

  The Return of Draw Egan

  1916 · 18 votes

• Movie8.0

  AdventureDrama

  Mark is the captain of a whaling ship and he looks down on brother Joel, who has never gone to sea. But when Mark's ship arrives in port sans its captain, Joel takes over the command. His new bride, Priscilla, insists on coming along and they head for the South Seas, where Mark was last seen.

  All the Brothers Were Valiant

  1923 · 1 votes

• Movie8.0

  Drama

  An heiress with a penchant for speeding runs afoul of a traffic cop. Romance develops between the two, but it's soon complicated when he believes she is responsible for killing someone due to reckless driving.

  And Sudden Death

  1936 · 1 votes

• Movie6.0

  Comedy

  The main premise for the comedy is the Jimmy discovers he can convince people he is a tough figure to be reckoned with merely by giving them a business card identifying him as the bouncer of the "Bucket of Blood Cafe."

  A Ten-Minute Egg

  1924 · 2 votes