Movies and TvShows featuring "prison-stripes" theme.
Convict 13 is a comedy silent film directed by Buster Keaton. The film revolves around a man who is mistakenly identified as an escaped prisoner and is sent to prison. While in prison, he must navigate through dangerous situations and try to escape. With the help of comedic visual gags and slapstick comedy, the protagonist uses his wit and resourcefulness to outsmart the guards and villains, ultimately proving his innocence.
The Adventurer is a comedy adventure film released in 1917. The plot revolves around a tramp who rescues a drowning woman and subsequently gets entangled in a series of comedic mishaps and adventures. The film features elements of mistaken identity, escape from authorities, and a romantic subplot. Throughout the movie, the tramp finds himself in various hilarious situations, including hiding in a cupboard, evading gunfire, and attending a chaotic house party. The Adventurer showcases the tramp's resourcefulness and wit as he navigates through a series of comedic challenges.
Donald Duck commits a crime and begins to imagine his guilty conscience as he faces life on the run from the law.
A young man searches for his brother's killer with the help of a gunfighter, a native woman and a traveling medicine man.
In Liberty (1929), a group of convicts plan an elaborate escape from prison, leading to a chaotic chase through the city as they try to evade capture. The film showcases daring stunts, comedic mishaps, and a race against time to achieve freedom. With its black-and-white visuals and a thrilling storyline, Liberty is a classic silent film that highlights the pursuit of liberty.
In 'The Chain Gang,' a group of prisoners, including Mickey Mouse and Pegleg Pete, are working on a chain gang. They attempt to escape from prison using a pickaxe and a harmonica. Despite their efforts, they are pursued by a guard dog and eventually caught. The film includes comedic scenes of snoring, singing, shooting, and falling into water and mud.
The story is of two convicts always trying to escape, until one day when they actually manage to. They meet up with a girl and become rivals for her charms.
A jeremiad against intemperance, jazz music, and abortion, set on a train filled with unrepentant sinners hurtling toward damnation.
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.
Hoodoo Ann is a 1916 movie that blends comedy, drama, and romance. The story revolves around a cursed doll and an orphan named Hoodoo Ann. As Ann navigates through her life, she encounters various challenges and adventures, including dealing with firearms and fires. The movie showcases the ups and downs of Ann's journey, highlighting themes of marriage and the complexities of life.
After introducing the small town Bugtown, inhabitated by bugs, this short shows what happens to two honeymooning lovebugs at the Honeymoon Hotel in town, due to the fact, that their love is a little bit to hot.
A toy soldier, distracted by a beautiful ice skater, is derelict in his duty and gets discharged. Later, when the screwball army declares war, he lucks into a chance to redeem himself. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with UCLA Film & Television Archive in 2009.
Buddy runs his own trolley. Most of it seems to be a musical number. However, there is a criminal living in the ditches as he breaks loose and hijacks Buddy's trolley.
When a convict forcibly changes places with our hero Stan, he's taken to the pokey in the prisoner's place. Run-ins with pies, pickaxes, and the electric chair follow. Will the warden find Stan innocent or presume him guilty?
A jail break turns into a race.
Billy Bevan trying to escape the cops! Roughly only half of the original short's twenty-two minutes still exists.
Tom and Jerry are police officers, driving around in their car and enjoying listening to some music on their police radio, when they hear a bulletin announcing another theft of a mummy from the local museum. They stumble upon the culprit, a mysterious and ghoulish man who is carrying a coffin through a secret door in a cemetery. They sneak in after him and watch him command the mummy to life; it is a beautiful woman, who he then commands to sing for his audience of skeletal theatre-goers.
Heckle and Jeckle of the Northwest Unmounted Police pursue the dreaded outlaw, Powerful Pierre.
Billy gets into trouble with a couple of cops by littering in the park, and must use all his ingenuity to elude them.
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