Movies and TvShows featuring "falling-over-backwards-in-a-chair" theme.
In 'The Pawnshop,' the Little Tramp works at a pawnshop and gets into various comedic situations. He flirts with a customer, deals with a troublesome father and daughter, and tries to balance multiple tasks. Chaos ensues as the Tramp accidentally causes mayhem in the shop. Will he be able to fix the mess he made and save his job?
Easy Street is a slapstick comedy that follows a police officer as he takes on a dangerous criminal gang to rescue a kidnapped woman. Along the way, he receives help from a missionary church and a reformed criminal. Filled with non-stop action and hilarious comedy, this movie will keep you entertained from start to finish.
In 'His New Profession,' a man tries his luck in a new profession and encounters a series of hilariously precarious situations, including flirting, pratfalls, and a confrontation with the police. This two-reeler silent film showcases the iconic 'Little Tramp' character in a comedic farce filled with slapstick comedy and black-and-white hijinks.
The life of Ipse, a 19-year-old girl who cannot get out of her own bed due to psychological trauma, is as motionless as a plant. Having no family and no clue of her family's mysterious history, she lives completely dependent on her neighbors, but starts to feel suffocated under the abuse and the looks she gets as if she was something to be eaten up. One day, in the midst of her hellish everyday life, a stranger comes to her house.
Parlor, Bedroom and Bath is a slapstick comedy that follows the story of a man caught up in a web of confusion, as he is mistaken for someone else and becomes involved in romantic rivalries and hilarious situations. With a mix of seduction, mistaken identities, and slapstick humor, this movie is a delightful comedy filled with laughter and misunderstandings.
In 'Be Big!', Laurel and Hardy plan a vacation to Atlantic City, but their plans quickly go awry. They encounter various comedic mishaps, including mistaken identities, falling over backward in a chair, and a doorbell prank gone wrong. Laurel pretends to be ill, leading to hilarious misunderstandings and pratfalls. In the end, they find themselves in awkward situations and comedic buffoonery, all captured in this classic black-and-white comedy.
The Red Mill is a silent comedy-romance film set in Amsterdam. It follows the story of a tavern wench who falls in love with a man who saves her from a dark and stormy night. However, a love triangle ensues when another man, who has switched identities with the first man, also falls for the tavern wench. Hilarity ensues as the two men compete for the love of the tavern wench, leading to comedic moments involving speed skating, riding a dog, and climbing down a balcony.
When two musicians are fired from their orchestra, they must find a way to survive on the streets. They end up staying in a boarding house, where they get into various comedic misadventures.
D.W. Griffith film about an elderly father who grows tired of seeing his son bring home beautiful women so he gets a makeover and heads out on the prowl.
Benny Rubin promotes a wrestling show but ends up wrestling Constantine "Strangler" Romanoff himself.
A paperhanger and his helper arrive at a sanitarium to do a job. The chubby paperhanger leaves most of the work to his thin assistant, who tries gamely but usually makes a mess. Various patients at the asylum interrupt and complicate the work, and, to the dismay of the lazy boss, a nurse is attracted to the helper. Amidst all the paste, ladders, brushes, and the images of circus and jungle animals on the wallpaper, is there any way this job gets done to the satisfaction of the sanitarium's director?
Three girls apply for maid jobs at a resort but are taken for royalty when a telegram about their dog Queenie is intercepted. Film producers vie to put them under contract but selling a script idea finally saves them when the bill comes due.
A well-dressed but inebriated man decides to attend a variety show at the Palace Theatre. During the show, both he and the performers are continually harassed by a practical joke-loving boy who is sitting in a box seat near the stage. Soon the inebriated man himself begins to cause disruptions, with his overly emphatic opinions of the various acts.
A Al Christie comedy short featuring Jimmie Adams & Lorraine MacLean.
It's 3:00 AM at the Firewater Club, and Stanley has had more than enough to drink. When he tries to take over leading the orchestra, the manager - a former boxer - lets him know that he needs to restrain himself. But it's not long before Stanley causes another disruption anyway, and when he then tries to dance with the manager's wife, the manager's patience finally runs out.
Jimmy Jump has a "plain" girlfriend, and becomes intrigued by a "fancy" girl he spots in a park. Eventually he realizes he is better off with his no-frills girl.
Lovey and Dovey have a baby, named, of course, Snookums. Everything Snookums wants, Snookums gets. At his first birthday party, Lovey mistakenly believes Snookums has been kidnapped - and the chase is on.
Roscoe begins work on his new job as janitor of the Shortacre Building in New York. While performing his duties he enters the offices of a broker, I. Steele. The broker is out, but his wife, who knows that her husband expects a rich customer in with a check for $10,000 to close an option, mistakes Roscoe for this Mr. R.U. Stout of Showme, Missouri. Thinking to be of assistance to her husband in his business, Mrs. Steele is very affable and finally invites the supposed Mr. Stout to go to luncheon with her. Steele returns with the necessary papers and is told by his office boy that his wife has gone to a gay café with the new janitor.
A pair of rail-riding bums exit their boxcar in the town of Excema, where they get work as waiters and have trouble with clams, bottles of beer, and pies.
When the story begins, Johnnie comes to the lawyer's house (James Finlayson) in order to woo the man's daughter. However, a love-crazy woman has been chasing Johnnie and the lawyer tries to help out....and gets nothing but trouble in return. The lady now wants the lawyer...who's a married man. Soon all sorts of problems develop...and the lawyer is sure his wife is going to kill him!