Martha Sleeper Movies

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

The gang decided to go into the movie-making business, using all kinds of sets and props. There were problems as those not involved are trying to...

A crime caper featuring the 'first family of Hollywood' - the Watsons.

A murder trial reunites a former chorus girl and her son, a grandson of an English aristocrat.

A doting father who plays Santa Claus for Christmas annoys a trolley full of people when he lugs a giant Christmas tree home.

A divorced couple try to pretend they are still happily married in order to get $100,000 from the woman's divorce-disapproving aunt.

House detective of the Hotel Omigosh, Cyril Fromage and his hotel switchboard operator sweetheart attempt to thwart a dastardly thief, "The Weasel,"...

Short comedy which posits that in a hundred years men's styles will revert to Regency garb, and that there will be a complete gender role reversal,...

Jimmy Jump's boss asks him to meet his small niece and her dog and entertain them between trains. Jimmy buys a balloon or two and looks over the...

Charley is called upon to go out with his boss on a date with the boss' mistress, to act as a beard.

The kids from Our Gang have to attend a wedding, and they bring along their flea collection--which gets loose.

Charley Chase has car trouble.

A female secret agent has gotten ahold of a new type of explosive gas. She has to avoid the efforts of two men who are trying to steal it. They...

Cowboy Jeff Larabee returns from the east and meets Doris Halloway, a young girl, that he regards as a vagabond, till he learns that she's the owner...

Medical intern Robert Morley is distraught after his wife dies in childbirth. He's resentful of his new son and wants nothing to do with him. He...

This offbeat comedy from future Hollywood screwball director McCarey is about a princess who must find a husband in 24 hours or forfeit her throne....

Casper is the baby-expert at a large department store and his life is less than peaceful as he provides much amusement for the babies at his own...

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...

Greed, ambition and hunger-for-power drive John Hart, a New-York-City stock-market broker, into crooked dealings and deception, but he doesn't...

Richard Dix stars as Pecos Smith, a strong, silent Westerner suspected of cattle rustling.