Movies: Earle Rodney

Sennett's studio had been mocking cowboy movies for more than a decade, and the introduction of sound gave them more things to make fun of. There are also the issues of dealing with sound equipment and the Vitaphone discs....

Wanda is a gum-chewing waitress; dim Eddie, the pastry boy at the café, likes her. So does Mr. Hamhocks, the café owner, whose head is also turned by the arrival of Pearl Minnow, a gold digger in town for the annual Catalina Channel Swim, sponsored b...

Walter has invented an automatic remote-control for his jalopy. When a potential buyer comes to look it over, Walter proudly shows how he cam the car stop and go, turn corners and steer correctly. His spiteful rival, Bill, switches the plug and the c...

Jack (Earle Rodney) wants to marry Betty (Helen Darling) but inadvertently offends her parents, who demand “anybody in the world but that whippersnapper!” With the help of an “old time actor friend” (Eddie Barry), he makes his prospective in-laws rue...

Midnight Daddies is a black-and-white comedy short....

He Trumped Her Ace is a black-and-white comedy short....

The College Kiddo is a 1927 comedy short....

Motorboat Mamas is a silent comedy short....

Andy's wife, seeing others succeed in the stock market, decides to invest their money in it....

Two friends - Andy and Harry - get into trouble while they are trying to prevent the marriage of Andy's daughter....

For Sale, a Bungalow is a 1927 comedy short...

Let Me Explain is a silent comedy short....

Mary and her steady, Jack, have differing opinions on "the stage"-- Mary wishes to devote her life to the craft, while Jack strives to settle down and leave all that play-acting behind. When a traveling troupe that performs a Fall-of-Roman epic is or...

The sanitarium run by Lallah Hart is in need of repairs and her nephew (Earle Rodney) is broke and after a loan. In her absence (off with her beau) he rents the place out to a group of (presumably) chorus girls (doubling inevitably as bathing beautie...

A newlywed couple tries to make her sea captain Uncle feel like a welcome house guest by giving him all the comforts of the sea......

A 1920 Eddie Barry comedy. Eddie and Earle get a job at a seaside carnival tent and fool some people by dressing as Fatima the belly dancer....

A sheriff's daughter, and deputy sheriff, falls for a handsome stranger. who cracks a joke about robbing a bank. When a robbery then takes place, he must be the bandit--right?...

Short comedy...

Dorothy Devore rejects her suiter, a boring bank clerk, so he schemes and frames a bank robbery to excite her. He even brings her along....

A burlesque of the old standard dramatic plot in which daughter, returning from the big city with unexpected wealth, arrives just in the nick of time to defeat the cruel, cruel landlord, save the old homestead from a tragic foreclosure, and keep the ...