Roy Del Ruth Movies

Shanghaied on his wedding day, Harry struggles to cope with a cruel captain while fending off a sailor who seems attracted to him.

A night club singer who is the daughter of a small-town crook is tried and convicted of murder.

A 1922 comedy short.

Ben and fiancée Haver run a bakery and grocery. A mostly lost film, only seven minutes survive.

A short packed with more stars and gags than most features of its day, this film delivered a gaggle of guffaws!

Race horse owner pays so much attention to business he winds up divorced from his wife. His alimony payments are so steep he plots with his lawyer to...

If you can't buy it... make your own! A Fox silent short subject comedy.

Lefty O'Brien, a pugilist, becomes engaged to ex-tomboy Patsy Ryan against the wishes of her father, Michael. They both live in an Irish-Jewish...

An itching courtship from Mack Sennett.

Street cleaner Elmer Peck (Clyde Cook) inherits a million dollars from his uncle Adam Peck (Tom Ricketts) on the conditions that he retains the...

Beautiful Dot Walker is part of a ring of crooks in San Francisco, who use her to lure impressionable young men into a crooked card game. Young...

A cruel sea captain shanghais Jimmie to work on his ship, but Jimmie's girlfriend also stows away on board, disguised as a sailor.

Billy Bevan, Harry Gribbon, Kewpie Morgan and their dog engage in a poker game.

Rampaging lions are on the loose in a hunting lodge. Approximately, only eight minutes of the short survives.

Rex Hale, a reform mayor, closes the musical comedy "Powder My Back" because he feels that it is immoral. Indignant, Fritzi Foy, star of the comedy,...

Two pilots are in love with the same girl. On a flight over the Antarctic, the plane suddenly spins out of control and crashes into a snowbank. One...

The aging father of a farm lad thinks the boy is after dad's fiancée, so he banishes the lad. The young man heads to California where he...

When a well off man from the city arrives in a hick town to woo a wealthy widow, he encounters first an ornery model T ride to the shabby hotel, then...

Asleep at the Switch is a 1923 comedy short.

Mild-mannered Harry gets roughed up by a slum gang. Later he returns as a cop to see that justice is done.