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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A timid man undergoes a personality change, and turns the tables on the people who've bullied him.
Rattfink wants to give revenge on Roland for getting him banned at the roller skate rink.
Al St John loves Lena, but he also loves to sleep. Will he get out of bed soon enough to take Lena from his dull rival, so he can have an argument with the girl where he cries "LISTEN, LENA"? Or will he roll back over, and later get busted by a mean cop for sleepwalking in his bed clothes?
This Tom and Jerry cartoon (the human versions, not the cat and mouse) is an opportunity for the animators to have fun with the medium. There is no specific plot. One of the boys uses a pencil to create a myriad number of animated illusions that could only work in a cartoon. For example, a short vertical line is drawn, which when held by both ends suddenly becomes a saxophone. When played, the notes pop out of the bell of the instrument to suddenly grow legs and transform into ducks. After the song, the saxophone itself quickly follows suit and becomes a goose. The entire short consists of these disjointed, though often creative and humorously unlikely events.
'Snub' Pollard in a lot of wedding problems.
SHOOT STRAIGHT - starring Paul Parrott, with Jobyna Ralston, Eddie Baker and George Rowe. A rarely-seen comedy short. Parrott is a hapless hunter in this predecessor to Tex Avery toons of the 1940s, and in a series of inventive gag sequences fails to capture squirrel, rabbit, chinchilla, bobcat, duck, and bear all in one reel.