Black Oxfords

May 18, 1924

0h 20m

★ 5.0

Overview

In this Mack Sennett comedy, a mother and daughter fear foreclosure because their mortgage payment is due and they're unable to pay it. Meanwhile, the family's son Jack, who's in prison, unexpectedly finds himself free of captivity.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Mack Sennett Comedies

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Cast

Jack Withers

Sidney Smith

Sandy Haig

Vernon Dent

Daisy Withers

Marceline Day

Ma Withers

Anna Dodge

Charlie Greenback

John J. Richardson

Greenback's Accomplice

Kalla Pasha

Lotta Waite

Natalie Kingston

Prison Batter / Rural Sheriff / Umpire

Andy Clyde

Prison Guard / Greenback Henchman

Roger Moore

Convict

Marvin Loback

Prison Sheriff Umpire

Leo Sulky

Bugler

Gordon Lewis

Simon Haldane works in the office of the Faulkner Iron Works, but he has been raised by his two maiden aunts in an extremely sheltered manner and is basically afraid of everyone and everything. One morning he finds a strange girl shivering in his bedroom, and although he's terrified of her, he manages to call a doctor for her. This starts a rumor that Simon is married. Complications ensue.

6.0

Character Studies

Nov 20, 1927

Carter DeHaven announces that he will perform a series of "impressions." For each we see him applying makeup and changing the combing of his hair or putting on a wig. When he tilts his head down during each supposed makeover, up pops the actual celebrity (Keaton, Lloyd, Arbuckle, Valentino, Fairbanks, Coogan) he appears to have been making himself up as.

5.0

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6.4

A Date for Mad Mary

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6.0

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0.0

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0.0

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Silent romantic comedy set on a train.

5.5

Our Modern Maidens

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4.9

The Battle of the Sexes

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5.5

Doing Time

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7.0

The Show Off

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5.9

Identity Thief

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When a mild-mannered businessman learns his identity has been stolen, he hits the road in an attempt to foil the thief -- a trip that puts him in the path of a deceptively harmless-looking woman.

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0.0

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A lost silent short comedy.

6.9

Little Annie Rooney

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A feisty little girl, the daughter of a beat cop, faces the challenges of growing up in a tough city neighborhood. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partnership with the Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division, in 2014.

5.8

Tramp, Tramp, Tramp

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A poor cobbler's son enters a $25,000 cross-country hiking contest sponsored by the footwear company that has nearly bankrupted his father. He also has fallen in love with the girl on the company's billboards, the competition's daughter, and her sweet inspiration keeps him tramping along.

6.0

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6.4

Trolley Troubles

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