Madeline Hurlock Movies

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

Billy and Andy impersonate two ice-delivery men in a suburban town. Billy takes a fancy to a newly-wed bride and most of his loose cash is liquidated...

An island princess falls in love with a young man whose picture she sees in the newspaper. Her father, the king, sends his agents to the U.S. to...

A boat race rivalry erupts into comical danger.

A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Will Rogers, Laurel and Hardy, and the Keystone Cops.

Fleeing a group of forest rangers, who are rounding up tramps to serve as firefighters, they take refuge in a mansion. The owner has gone on vacation...

Ben returns from the big city with his pockets full of cash. A hard-hearted, gold-digging vamp ensnares him. Ben enjoys being ensnared. In order to...

A Billy Bevan slapstick comedy short.

Romance hits a football player when he falls for an aviatrix.

To make her boyfriend jealous a society girl starts dating a plumber but his sweetheart gets revenge.

Two barbers, Billy and Andy head out West when one of their customers tells them that gold can literally be scooped up off the ground. Unbeknownst to...

Our hero is the town's photographer and its sheriff. He' in love with a young woman who's also pursued by the older, more devious Dudley Somerset....

A roguish baron saves a girl from a carriage accident, and brings her to a backwoods Inn during a storm for refuge. There he hopes to have his way...

The movie makers are filming the next installment of the western serial "Get Your Man". The movie's leading man wants his stunt double to do the next...

In and out of the water, Billy makes waves at the Blue Point Beach Club.

A concert pianist who is popular with women tries to discourage a teenage admirer.

Two circus hands create chaos.

Harry Doolittle wakes up on the day he's to marry Betty Bright. He has a terrible hangover. A strange woman appears in his room saying that he...

The Raspberry Romance is a 1925 comedy short.

Billy inherits a major department store, but has to pretend not to be married in order to claim it - which doesn't sit too well with his wife.