Bob Monkhouse introduces the golden age of slapstick comedy.

Who Pays? was a series of twelve three-reel dramas, released between March and July 1915. Henry King and Ruth Roland starred in each episode, playing different roles each time, with a variety of supporting players who varied from one episode to another. Each episode told a complete and individual story, but they were all inter-related by a uniform theme. Although there were no cliff-hanger endings...

A 1917 movie serial

A film by George Crone

Erma Desmond leaves her uncle and aunt to visit a friend, Phyllis, in the city. There, she finds work as the companion to the highly temperamental Mrs. Stanley. Mrs. Stanley has terrorized her husband to such an extent that he has gone away for a few months, purportedly to take their daughter to school, but mainly to get some peace. The servants, however, are still victims of her terrible fits unt...

An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century through the 1920s.

A rollicking compendium of the greatest hits of silent-cinema chase sequences