Ford Sterling Movies

An unscrupulous doctor tries to drum up business by having the sidewalk in front of his house covered with banana skins, inviting slip-and-fall...

A gang of thieves continually threaten or attempt to kill the Mayor, always setting up the bumbling Chief of Police as the culprit. The Chief's very...

Jane Maynard opens a mission in memory of philanthropist Bland Hendricks. John Anstell, son of a powerful and selfish millionaire, Michael Anstell,...

Some Nerve is a 1913 movie starring Ford Sterling and Dot Farley.

After graduating from a fashionable finishing school and touring Europe with her father, Selina Peake returns to the United States, where her father...

Jones is broke. His girl is giving a birthday party, and her various suitors give her costly presents. Jones finds a beautiful lavaliere, which be...

A man goes fishing in the same pond where a burglar has thrown a sock of money stolen from the man's house.

A Modest Comedy Drama

Louis, the chef and Oscar, the head waiter, are in love with Mabel the pretty cashier. The Waiters' picnic is held, and Mabel is the cause of much...

Two criminals chase a plainclothes policeman who, while taking out his dog, witnesses their crime.

Keystone silent comedy.

This early Keystone has Pete spying on his neighbor's wife through one of those little knotholes in a fence. The neighbor (Sterling) notices and...

Jim Smith and Sallie Rice are very much in love with each other, but her father vehemently shows his disapproval of Jim. An elopement is planned, and...

This short film takes a nostalgic look at the Mack Sennett comedies of the silent cinema era.

In managing the shipyard inherited from her father, Derith Keogh has considerable labor problems and accedes to the unreasonable demands of John...

Doris Poole, whose parents were theatrical people, was orphaned as a child, and four members of the troupe adopted and raised her. When grown, she...

A Civil war comedy starring Mack Sennett and Mabel Normand. The film is considered lost.

Horace Ventimore, a young London architect, stumbles across an old brass bottle. When he picks it up a genie suddenly appears and promises Horace...

A Keystone Kops short about a landlord discovering three "anner-kist" tenants building a bomb.

Mabel, her father and Mr. Tra La La, a suitor, much to her disgust, for her hand, take a trip on the coast steamer, "Harvard." Mr. Short, his rival,...