Movies and TvShows featuring "hit-with-a-nightstick" theme.
After a group of refugees arrive in a small Tennessee town, a pastor must find a way to help them rebuild their lives and the church they call home. Based on a true story, this film explores themes of faith, community, and perseverance.
The Floorwalker is a silent comedy short film from 1916. It follows the adventures of a clumsy man who works in a department store and gets into various comedic situations. The film features comedic pratfalls, foiled robberies, and a mix-up with identities. It is a classic example of slapstick comedy.
Scram! is a comedy short film from 1932. It follows a series of comical events involving a drunk policeman, mistaken identities, a flirtatious wife, and a compromising situation.
Gerard, a 25-year-old student, decides to find a treasure Troilus lost in the sea after the Peloponnesian War. His meeting with Manina jeopardises his plans of finding the treasure.
Our vagabond hero dons a lifeguard's uniform and madcap antics ensue on the beach, and in the changing stalls!
In 'Getting Acquainted', a man tries to flirt with a woman in the park but ends up getting into various comedic mishaps, including being chased by the police. The film showcases the classic slapstick comedy style of the Keystone Kops era.
From Hand to Mouth is a silent comedy film released in 1919. The plot follows a man who must secure an inheritance by saving a kidnapped woman. Throughout the film, he encounters various comedic obstacles and uses his wit to overcome them.
In this silent comedy, a pretty department store cashier is charged with a robbery that occurred overnight at the store. However, circumstantial evidence points to the store's soda clerk having committed both the $10,000 robbery and the assumed murder of the store's nightwatchman, who is missing.
Fatty and Mabel go to the San Diego Exposition.
Stan plays a janitor at a hotel dropping letters and trying to retrieve them with a vacuum, getting wet, helping a lady shoot her cheating husband and being chased by the police.
In 'Book Revue,' a cartoon wolf enters a bookstore and interacts with various characters from children's stories. As the surreal and comedic plot unfolds, the wolf encounters Little Red Riding Hood, a cartoon goose, a cartoon mouse, and other anthropomorphic animals. The film combines elements of surrealism, humor, and classic fairy tales.
A henpecked husband's innocent friendship with a married woman leads to chaos.
Snub plays a rich guy who wants to impress the ladies with his virility. So he pays a tough boxer to take a dive in a staged fight, though the fight definitely does not go anything like expected.
Detective Lizzie sets out to recover the stolen plans for an invention.
A two-reel comic number featuring Toto the clown in his usual knockabout tricks. He is first seen flirting in a park, but later appears at a moving picture studio. He gets in trouble here and escapes dressed as a girl. He then invades the grounds of a dancing school, and later the winter quarters of a circus.
A city slicker tries to woo a country girl while her boyfriend fixes his tire.
Run ’Em Ragged, Snub Pollard’s 39th starring vehicle, uses familiar slapstick-- Over-the-top make-up, ethnic humor, and a chase across Los Angeles’s Echo Park-- But there is more here than knockabout; Sophisticated sight gags test the limits of the characters’ perception, making expert use of such props as a seemingly bottomless rowboat.
Harold becomes the victim of a clever bulldog pup who chases him in and out of various places.
Fatty and Al are competing to take the same girl to the Waiters' Ball, but the formal dress requirement presents a problem: Fatty owns a tuxedo, but Al does not.
A couple of roving husbands are caught at the seashore by their wives.