Joe Rock Movies

Joe Rock does a slapstick adaptation of Oliver Twist.

The baddies want Alyce Ardell's mine, which they know -- but she doesn't -- has just struck a rich vein. They will stick at naught, but she is...

The niece of a mill-owner goes undercover in the mill of a rival, where she gets mixed up in romantic antics.

Stan is a detective who essentially relies on different costumes to successfully complete his investigations

Movie comedy with Earl Montgomery and Joe Rock.

Based on the spectacular rise of bandleader and vaudevillian Harry Roy, this is the comic tale of a Ruritanian princess who elopes with a dance-band...

Stan Laurel plays a Chinese laundryman and he displays some good physical slapstick reminiscent of his days with the Karno troupe in England.

Golf, we discover in this early Semon short, is a game that is played by striking a croquet ball with a hockey stick and seeing how many times it can...

Two close office pals, Craig and Hessert, fall for the same stenographer. Craig marries her, but their friendship continues, leading Craig to move...

Harry Wells, a New Yorker, takes his friend Bob Travers, a westerner visiting the city, to a cafe for an evening of pleasure. When Bob becomes...

Earl and Joe barrel through high-energy physical comedy and stunts as they try to win over romantic interests and bumble through various odd jobs.

Stan plays a kind hearted tramp whose love goes un-requited in this sweet short film from 1925.

Laurel plays Winchell McSweeney, whose fisherman parents forced him to leave home and make it on his own when they can no longer afford to keep...

Stan works in a grocery store in the middle of the mountains, buried in snow. The young woman he's in love with is falling for a fraud who pretends...

Short comedy set against the backstage lives of a group of performers.

Hafed, a Turkish prince, imprisons an American girl and her father. The girl sends for Jim, who attempts a rescue. Jim is captured, but Hafed's...

Larry Semon in a double role as a poor man chasing an opportunity to steal secret plans (for a reward of $1,000.83 from a rich man) and as the...

A barge operator helps a schoolteacher tackle a gang of criminals.

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...

While Larry Semon does not star in Rips and Rushes, its confident gags and frenetic pace suggest his touch. In the knockabout one-reeler set in a...