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Thomas Leo McCarey (October 3, 1898 – July 5, 1969) was an American film director, screenwriter and producer. During his lifetime he was involved in nearly 200 movies, especially comedies. French director Jean Renoir once said that "Leo McCarey understood people better than any other Hollywood director."
Total trailers found: 148
10 August 1929
Two families embark on a pleasant Sunday picnic but manage to run into a variety of issues with their temperamental automobile.
20 April 1929
Stan and Ollie play door-to-door Christmas tree salesmen in California. They end up getting into an escalating feud with grumpy would-be customer James Finlayson, with his home and their car being destroyed in the melee.
08 September 1928
Mrs. Hardy throws Ollie and Stan out of the house. They try to impress two young ladies at a golf course and end up fighting with other golfers.
22 March 1930
Stanley and Oliver are trying to spend a relaxing night at home playing checkers, but the antics of their mischievous sons keep interrupting their recreation.
01 June 1929
Stan and Ollie are musicians attempting to travel by train to Pottsville.
26 April 1930
Street musicians Stan and Ollie have no success earning money in the dead of winter in a bad neighborhood.
27 May 1927
Papa Gimplewart, father to three children is unimpressed by the young lawyer who wants to marry his daughter.
08 February 1930
Stan fakes receiving a telegram so he can go to a club with Ollie and a bottle of his unsuspecting wife's liquor, but she overhears his plans.
27 November 1942
A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official.
04 April 1926
Charley is chased into a phone booth by a dog and agrees to help a young woman on the phone avoid getting married.
01 September 1948
Sam Clayton has a good heart and likes to help out people in need. In fact, he likes to help them out so much that he often finds himself broke and unable to help his own family buy the things they need--like a house.
23 December 1958
Harry Bannerman, a Connecticut suburbanite, becomes involved in various shenanigans when his wife Grace leads a protest movement against a secret army plan to set up a missile base in their community.
17 December 1927
Papa Gimplewart chaperones his daughter and her "steady" during a beach adventure.
23 February 1929
Stable hands Stan and Ollie are tending a thoroughbred named "Blue Boy." But when they overhear two men talking about a $5000 reward for the return of the stolen "Blue Boy," they miss the part about it being the painting, not the horse.
13 June 1926
This offbeat comedy from future Hollywood screwball director McCarey is about a princess who must find a husband in 24 hours or forfeit her throne.
23 October 1927
A woman's two sons pretend to be insane in order to de-rail their mother's plans to remarry.
03 December 1927
Pompous J. Piedmont Mumblethunder greets his nephew from Scotland who arrives in kilts. He is immediately taken to a tailor for a pair of proper pants.
09 May 1937
At a family reunion, the Cooper clan find that their parents' home is being foreclosed. "Temporarily," Ma moves in with son George's family, Pa with daughter Cora.
07 January 1928
Schultz raises prize chickens and roosters that are always getting into neighbor Max Davidson's garden and eating the seeds, leading to constant feuding between the two men.
29 January 1927
Mabel plays an out-and-out crook, a "Girl Bandit," no less. And she quickly hooks up with a male partner in crime, in this case a Gentleman Crook played by perpetually grinning Creighton Hale.
29 June 1929
Sailors Stan and Ollie offer to buy sodas for two women they meet in a park, even though they are short on cash.
29 December 1928
Stan & Ollie attempt to fool their wives by sneaking out to a poker game, but instead get involved with two flirty ladies, one of whom is the girlfriend of a jealous boxer.
18 January 1925
Jimmy Jump (Charley Chase) and his wife find a baby left at their door. They happily take the baby in but find themselves at a loss when they want to sleep but the baby cries all night.
09 February 1934
The Whinneys share expenses for their trip to Hollywood with George and Gracie and their great Dane. A clerk in Whinney's bank has put fifty thousand dollars in a suitcase, hoping to rob Whinney on the road, but instead Whinney takes another road and is himself arrested in Nevada.
04 May 1929
Laurel and Hardy try to entertain a female neighbor, unbeknown to Hardy’s wife.
17 November 1932
Eddie and his Mexican friend Ricardo are expelled from college after Ricardo put Eddie in the girl's dormitory when he was drunk.
14 December 1929
Stanley and Oliver are adopted by a runaway goat, whose noise and aroma in turn get the goat of their suspicious landlord.
19 April 1930
Stan lies to his wife about going to a nightclub with Ollie but Mrs. Laurel overhears the plot and outsmarts them both.
25 February 1928
Stan and Ollie are hired to build a house in just one day. When they are done, a bird lands on the house and it collapses.
22 February 1962
A priest arrives at a mission-post in China accompanied by a young native girl who has joined him along the way.
31 August 1924
A movie cameraman is on the lookout for new material but a rival plans to copy everything he films.
12 March 1951
A documentary short film depicting the work of the motion picture director. An anonymous director is shown preparing the various aspects of a film for production, meeting with the writer and producer, approving wardrobe and set design, rehearsing scenes with the actors and camera crew, shooting the scenes, watching dailies, working with the editor and composer, and attending the first preview.
13 September 1924
This funny Hal Roach comedy has Jimmy Jump (Charley Chase) waking up late for his wedding so in the mad rush he ends up leaving his house only dressed in his pajamas.
15 August 1930
The company of a musical comedy gets shipwrecked on a tropical island inhabited by a "king" from Brooklyn and his coterie of wild native girls.
30 November 1930
The story concentrates of neglectful husband Jim Murdock (Edmund Lowe) and his frustrated wife Betty (Leila Hyams).
13 November 1926
Charley needs $10,000 right away. Mrs. Schwartzkopple has inherited $2 million from her late husband and wants to marry a younger man.
19 July 1924
The main premise for the comedy is the Jimmy discovers he can convince people he is a tough figure to be reckoned with merely by giving them a business card identifying him as the bouncer of the "Bucket of Blood Cafe.
19 October 1929
Laurel and Hardy are debt collectors trying to repossess a console radio.
18 May 1929
Stan and Ollie wreak havoc at an upper class hotel in their jobs as footman (Hardy) and doorman (Laurel).
17 December 1923
Three crooks pull off a magnificent crime. As they're forced to hide out together they slowly begin to distrust each other.
02 July 1927
Max and his son Asher are invited to a party, where Max meets a rich widow, but Asher keeps annoying all of the guests, so Max refuses to speak to him.
08 October 1927
Laurel and Hardy are convicts making an escape from prison.
10 November 1928
The pretty daughter of a bank clerk meets a handsome college student who attempts to romance her. Due to the comical nature of the two kids meeting, the father suspects the student to be of ill repute and he and his wife conspire to scare him away by acting crazy.
15 November 1925
Often hysterical spoof of Tod Browning's THE UNHOLY THREE (and several others of his crime movies) has Charley Chase playing the mastermind of a dimwitted trio of thieves who plan on stealing a priceless jewel.
12 October 1924
Charley is called upon to go out with his boss on a date with the boss' mistress, to act as a beard.
11 July 1957
A couple falls in love and agrees to meet in six months at the Empire State Building - but will it happen?
26 July 1924
The situation is typically embarrassing and unlikely-but-possible for Charley, but it is at the same time such a simple idea -- Charley shows off by taking a pretty girl back home, wreaks havoc trying to get her in, then discovers that she's married.
17 May 1940
Years after she was presumed dead in a shipwreck, Ellen Arden returns home to the surprise of her husband recently remarrying.
04 May 1924
Jimmy Jump's young wife goes in strongly for amateur theatricals. After one of her performances a theater manager signs her up.
10 May 1929
A heat wave sends the residents of a New York City tenement to their fire escapes for whatever breeze is stirring.
21 February 1927
A short comedy by Leo McCarey about a Jewish father who is worried about his daughter.
10 September 1927
After a night of carousing, a rich oil tycoon awakes to find that he was married the night before. He calls in his lawyer to straighten things out.
26 January 1929
While changing clothes in a getaway car, escaped convicts Stan and Ollie mistakenly put on each other's pants.
19 December 1925
A few moments before Charley is going to marry, a friend, gives him an anonymous note, stating that the bride has a wooden leg.
02 April 2002
illustrates how directors pushed boundaries and altered the art of filmmaking during the turbulent, swinging 1960s.
02 November 1929
Charley goes out for an evening on the town without his wife.
05 July 1925
Charley is plagued with failure and with his brother-in-law, who's allergic to labor. When he decides to take the family on a camping trip, his wife learns about a contest sponsored by a pen company, with the first prize being an ocean trip.
08 December 1928
Anita and Marion take a temporary job as waitresses in Max's diner, next to a train station. When the train stops off, pandemonium erupts when the passengers fill the diner and all want meals immediately.
28 June 1930
Charley Chase is obsessed with a woman, however his attempt to meet her father is complicated by an asylum escapee.
