Movies and TvShows featuring "ends-with-a-chase" theme.
When the police academy is in danger of budget cuts, a new group of recruits known as Citizens on Patrol is formed to prove their worth. As they navigate through various comedic and crime-fighting situations, they must work together to protect their city.
In Big Business (1929), two saleswomen from a city department store travel to a small town in California to convince a homeowner to buy their merchandise. However, their encounter quickly escalates into a series of comedic misunderstandings and property damage as they compete with the homeowner's resilience.
The Battle of the Century (1927) is a classic comedy short film that revolves around a boxing match. The film features a Brute and a Boxing Referee, as well as various comedic situations such as slipping on a banana peel and being hit with a nightstick. It also includes a pie-in-the-face scene and ends with a chaotic pie fight.
In Smarty Cat, Tom and Jerry find themselves in a movie theater where they come across a film projector. Chaos ensues as they try to operate the projector and end up experiencing various funny and adventurous scenes from their previous cartoons. The film is filled with hilarious chase sequences, comic violence, and the classic cat versus mouse rivalry.
In Two Tars (1928), two sailors get involved in a series of escalating comedic mishaps and create chaos on the streets as they drive around in their Ford Model T. The film features slapstick comedy, reckless driving, vandalism, and a chase sequence.
After a poker game, two husbands try to sneak back home without their wives finding out, leading to a series of comedic mishaps.
Olive reads a ghost story to Popeye and Bluto. Bluto leaves and rigs a haunted house and lures them to it. But they quickly discover him and, even better, a can of invisible paint.
Alabam is lovesick. He tells Mickey how he can't get close to the girl of his dreams; he's overheard by Dave, a smooth operator, who insists that Alabam leave everything to him. He contrives to have Alabam and Mickey wreck Alabam's car in the girl's front yard, then he arrives, posing as a doctor, asking the residents of the house if they'll let the injured boy come inside while the doctor examines him. Meanwhile, Mickey gets a look at the girl's cousin and feigns injury so that now both lads are in beds upstairs while Dave, the doctor, conjures foul-tasting treatments. The fly in the ointment is the girl's crusty uncle, who may stand between the lads and their true loves.
Con artists Harold and Snub attempt to outwit phony psychic Miss Goulash and her "professor" father.
This Hal Roach comedy short I found on the "American Slapstick" DVD collection of rare silent comedies starts bizarre and has an anything goes-quality one rarely sees in Mr. Roach's output. It stars Snub Pollard who is initially introduced as a baby left on a doorstep before we see him fully grown about 20 or so years later still in that basket! From there, he gets bumped car to car crossing the street prior to getting literally thrown through a window as an auction is taking place! Also appearing is James Finlayson as a man who's items accidentally get sold.
At the Hodge Podge Lodge, a crotchety, near-sighted Mister Magoo takes a banjo-playing bear to be his nephew, Waldo.
Jimmy Jump is hired as chauffeur by a lady who wishes to make her husband jealous.
'Snub' Pollard in a lot of wedding problems.
A Hal Roach slapstick comedy featuring 'Snub' Pollard & Marie Mosquini.
Virginia Vance's father wants her to marry a count who has a couple of sidekicks to help him rob his hosts. Miss Vance, however, is engaged to Cliff Bowes. When she introduces him to father, he dislikes him because Cliff has blown up his car. Quite by accident, of course.
Rattfink wants to give revenge on Roland for getting him banned at the roller skate rink.
The Fox is a tree surgeon, who provides his services to the weather-beaten old tree the Crow calls home and doesn't want fixed.
Lawyers Blackstone and Bodgett's first case is a divorce proceeding between a wealthy husband and his wife. The wife, her lawyer and a friend are shooting for a large alimony settlement and split it three ways. Blackstone and Blodgett (up to their usual bag of Clark & McCullough tricks) wind up as heroes in the newspaper headlines.
The story is set on opening day of the 1929 season and Joe wants to see the Yankees play. So, he manages to sneak inside. Once there, instead of sitting and watching the game, he stands up and does a standup comedy bit.
Revenuers have been chasing a gang of bootleggers for years. They're hot on the trail near a gas station operated by Harry, a seemingly slow witted fellow with a cheery and spunky girlfriend. A shootout between treasury agents and the gang - they transport the hooch in manikins seated in a touring car - takes place in front of Harry's filling station. While Harry's gal stays outside, Harry carries the liquor-filled dummies into the station. Will there be a reward for the heroics of Harry and his honey?