Ford Sterling Movies

A constable and his sergeant are rivals for a girl, and to impress her they both attempt to apprehend an escaped convict. Probably the first Keystone...

After a baron steals his scientific discoveries, runs away with his wife, and slaps him in public, a man joins a Parisian circus sideshow as a clown...

John Curry is a friend of the Navajos who fails in his attempts to keep the white man from exploiting the tribe's secret altars. Realizing that there...

His Sister's Kids is a 1913 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Minta Durfee.

A farce involving an esteemed judge, his young wife, and the District Attorney she's seeing on the side; Misplaced jewelry and a message written on a...

A Small Time Act is a 1913 movie starring Ford Sterling and Roscoe Arbuckle.

A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Will Rogers, Laurel and Hardy, and the Keystone Cops.

The Snow Cure is a silent Comedy short.

A blowhard who poses as a railroad executive (but is really just a $30-a-week clerk) catches a young bride and then drives her family's finances to...

After a dastardly villain steals milk from a baby, he tries to put the heroine through a laundry press.

Four middle-aged actors jointly adopt an orphaned baby girl, raising her in a backstage milieu.

Ford Sterling is married to a very jealous wife, who has a hobby of collecting French dolls. In order to keep her appeased and unsuspecting. he buys...

Charles Murray out romancing in the park.

Two thieves burgle a necklace from a policeman, but then begin to quarrel between themselves, leading to a shootout.

A newspaper publisher finds out that his wild daughter has fallen in with a ring of gamblers. A reporter who has infiltrated the gang to get a story...

Ford Sterling in the park courting.

An amusing bowling match between Messrs. Sauer and Kraut. The balls and pins are manipulated by an electric magnet and perform some queer antics....

Toplitsky runs a second-hand clothing shop, but his partner "admires" his wife. Two conniving businessmen, intent on gaining a place in the store,...

Harry and Tillie are preparing to elope when her dad appears and boots his would-be son-in-law out of the house. Tillie is locked up in her room, and...

An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century through the 1920s.