Charley Chase Movies

A young boy, determined to make money enough to buy his mother a birthday present, finds a variety of odd jobs and finally starts up a makeshift...

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....

The story of the first Thanksgiving is re-imagined as a father tells it to his son.

Snub, the delivery man, and his assistant, Sunny, are returning from a delivery when they almost run over a lost woman. After she asks for...

Charley buys a wreck of an automobile that's been made to appear new by a disreputable used car dealer, but he soon realizes it's literally falling...

The stooges are firemen at a station that still uses horses to pull the engines. A salesman who wants to sell the chief some modern equipment plants...

Charley finds himself having strange spells during which everything around him seems to stop.

Two guys flirt with women at a hotel.

A summer hotel is a magnet for young marrieds as well as other couples looking to rekindle the spark. Charley Chicken Lover, the hotel proprietor,...

Two clownish stagehands make life difficult for the manager and cast of a dramatic production.

Slapstick experts host this look at the life and films of Charley Chase with rare film clips and photos.

Charley, his wife Rosina and their daughter Darla attend "Bank night" at their local movie theater, more eager to win the cash prize than see the...

Fatty and Al are Minta's suitors. After Fatty sics his dog on him, Al marks Fatty for roughing up by two thugs, but the plan backfires.

Alternate-language version of Rough Seas (1931)

Accidental meetings and misconceptions lead a blissfully happy couple to fight and squabble.

Other People's Business

Charley poses as a hillbilly in his pursuit of a country girl.

Charley Chase is a hapless inventor with a better mouse trap in this silent comedy from 1925.

A very young Charley Chase is a starving artist. He does not have much luck stealing fruit from a food vendor's cart. He cannot escape from his...

Two dastardly men conspire to keep their ward from marrying in order to maintain control of her vast fortune.