Movies and TvShows featuring "car-falling-apart" theme.

In 'One Good Turn,' Laurel and Hardy find themselves falsely accused of theft and must come up with a plan to raise money. Along the way, they get into hilarious predicaments, including trapping themselves in a collapsed building and causing chaos at a play rehearsal. This slapstick comedy showcases their unique brand of humor during the 1930s.

A mayoral candidate, who has a questionable past with a blackmailer, has to hide the truth from his wife. Chaos ensues when his fake wife comes into the picture and comedic situations unfold.

A compilation of archive footage from previously filmed Fox comedies.

In 'The Longshot,' a group of comedians and friends find themselves in debt and decide to bet on horse racing to solve their financial problems. With their wacky antics and slapstick comedy, they face numerous obstacles and mob bosses in their quest for a happy ending.

In The Stolen Jools (1931), a detective and his team investigate the theft of a valuable jewel during a charity benefit in Los Angeles. As they search for clues, they encounter a star-studded cast and go through a series of comedic vignettes. With a car falling apart, a woman in a bathtub, and a fake beard, the investigation takes unexpected turns. Will they be able to solve the case and recover the stolen jewel?

A bride and groom are all set to get married, but they can't until the best man shows up. When the best man eventually does show up, he causes a few problems since he ran through some tar just before entering the church. The groom doesn't seem to mind too much, just as long as the best man brought the ring, which he did. But as the wedding proceeds, that sticky tar just can't help but get the best man into one disastrous incident after another, including with the ring. That havoc, which leads into the reception, the wedding night and the honeymoon send off, may end the marriage even before it begins... or at least the couple's friendship with their best man.

Dance hall Romeos and an irresponsible father create comic complications in the life of a nickel-per-whirl taxi dancer.

Sach just lost his job as an assistant to a private detective, but he wasn't paid. Slip goes with him down to the detective's office to demand payment, but finds the office empty. A woman enters the office and mistakes Slip for the detective and convinces him to take on a case to find her sister after offering a $50 retainer.

A group of oil magnates are trying to think of new ways to attract business. One of them suggests that they contact the inventor Pollard, who has devised a new gasoline substitute. Pollard himself lives in a home filled with his eccentric inventions. When he gets the message from the oil company, he is excited about the opportunity to demonstrate his innovation.

A farce in which the poor Lamo has to flee after he tries to rob a rich cinema operator. While on the run, he starts working for a blacksmith, who then betrays him.

The two-reel silent film comedy The Caretaker's Daughter was distributed by Pathe in 1925. Produced by the prolific Hal Roach, the film stars the great Charley Chase in a case of multiple incarnations!

Al St. John starring in "Hot or Cold (1928)", a Mermaid Comedies.

Billy Judkins is a naturally gloomy Gus. His life changes when he is transferred from working in his company's Hoboken office to their Hollywood office. He is going to drive there with his wife and mother. Along the way, they encounter Mr. Pinkney and his new bride, who too are heading west. Their misadventures together and meeting up with a band of marauding Indians may prevent any of them from reaching their intended destination. If Billy and Mr. Pinkney ever make it to Hollywood, they're both in a for a big surprise.

A bill collector working in a tough neighborhood manages to rescue a young socialite from kidnappers.

An aspiring writer chases after a pair of crooks when her handbag is taken.

After five years as the best of the Chaplin imitators, Billy West struck out with his own comedy character, a middle-class man in a nice suit and a fedora -- but with the mustache. These movies involved him in cartoonish situations in which he executed some extended gags very nicely -- in this one he does the one in which the water pump only works when he's not ready for it and another in which he can't catch a fish with some expensive gear, while the boy next to him catches whoppers with a stick and a bent pin -- and gradually moved behind the camera.

When the mayor fires the lazy sheriff, lucky Lloyd happens to be at the wrong place at the wrong time and ends up with a star badge on his chest. He takes the job to impress the mayor's comely daughter.

Quite a leisurely introduction shows Bobby in the process of collecting one traffic offence after another but the film really gathers momentum when Ray delivers his testimony in court and tells a most elaborate tall tale (very effectively dramatised) to explain how it had happened.