Hal Roach Movies

Street musicians Stan and Ollie have no success earning money in the dead of winter in a bad neighborhood. Their instruments are destroyed in an...

Two factions struggle to gain and keep possession of a pool of molten gold.

Vermuda, a saleswoman in a department store, is very late for work. She relies on a ruse to fool the floorwalker, and when that doesn't work, she...

Laurel and Hardy are convicts making an escape from prison.

A burlesque on the historic incident of Cleopatra and Mark Antony.

Charley Chase plays the type of character he does best, which is a weak nerd who is constantly letting people push him around. This happens at his...

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...

Laurel and Hardy try to entertain a female neighbor, unbeknown to Hardy’s wife.

On the way to his wedding the bride groom finds a nude, married woman in his car

Two homeless vagabonds hide out in a vacant mansion and pose as the residents when prospective lessees arrive and try to rent it.

Fish market workers Stan and Ollie are persuaded by a sea captain to shanghai a crew for him at the local bar for a dollar a head. Successful at...

A mobster's moll leads a newsman, cub reporter and photographer to a scoop.

The story of the short film from the beginning of the movies in the 1890s, when all movies were shorts, through the 1950s when short subjects...

When Charlie borrows the policeman's uniform of his girl's father and captures a lunatic, his prospective father-in-law dons the uniform just in time...

The misadventures of two intrepid explorers in the Egyptian desert.

Maw and Paw Monkey throw their boy out of the house after a long night of drinking. When he hitches a ride on a freight train to parts unknown, he...

Oddly enough for a Roach comedy the premise of MIXED NUTS is grounded in topical political satire aimed at the New Deal, although the satire is of a...

A new truant officer moves into the neighborhood, and everybody wants to get friendly with his daughter.

Samson, an Israelite whose enormous strength is legendary, falls in love with Zorah, a Philistine, and marries her, overcoming his father Manoah's...

Harold is a bookkeeper who works in an office but can't keep his mind on his job -- the spring weather is too nice to stay indoors. After escaping...