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.
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.
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.
Although young and beautiful, schoolteacher Anne Gladden fears a dull future. She finally decides to take a walk on the wild side, splurging on some fashionable new clothes and setting off to find adventure. Her new confidence inspires her to flirt with complete strangers. When a gangster pays unwanted attention to her, she ditches him and flees in his car, unaware that there's a corpse in the trunk. Determined to recover his stolen vehicle and its incriminating cargo the thug begins a desperate search. The oblivious Anne, comes to the aid of a handsome young man stranded alongside the road. Romance blooms, but after the shocking discovery of a body in the trunk, the duo decide they have to return the car. The bickering lovebirds head back to the city, trailed by both the angry gangster and the cops, who suspect the young couple of murder.
Benny Rubin promotes a wrestling show but ends up wrestling Constantine "Strangler" Romanoff himself.
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.
Miss Henry is the maid-of-all-work at a hotel. She cleans everything, operates the elevator, cooks and serves the meal and spots series regular, Milburn Morante apparently strangling a young woman in her room.
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.
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 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?
A neighbor visits her friend, taking with her her child, a little girl about the same age as the friend's little girl. Both children being full of mischief, they immediately put into execution a number of startling and ingenious pranks. While the laundry maid is entertaining her policeman lover, the children pin the policeman's coat tail to a sheet which is being ironed by the laundry maid. They next get a trap containing some mice and let them loose in the parlor where their parents are entertaining guests at a card party. They put the cat in the piano, make finger marks with flour on the hack of father's coat, causing his wife to think he has been embraced by the cook; they find grandfather asleep, his slippers lying on the floor, and nail the slippers down, and grandpa upon awakening receives a severe fall.
A Mack Sennett Talking Comedy, released through Paramount Pictures, starring Franklin Pangborn and featuring Dorothy Granger.
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.
Jimmie Adams leads the cast, along with Lorraine MacLean and Billy Engle, in this Al Christie production.
Tom Howard has married a widow. She keeps comparing him to her first husband, to Howard's cost. To make himself seem nobler, he has pal George Shelton burgle the place. However, another burglar is also trying to break in, to general confusion.