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- Monsieur Hulot visits the technology-driven world of his sister, brother-in-law, and nephew, but he can't quite fit into the surroundings.
- Shortly before his execution on the death row in San Quentin, amateur sleuth and baby photographer Ronnie Jackson tells reporters how he got there.
- Two booksellers search for diamonds in Africa, along the way meeting a visually-impaired gunner, a hungry lion, and a tribe of cannibals.
- Members of a municipal band, Stanley and Oliver seem to be always following someone else's lead, rather than that of the temperamental conductor. Soon they're out of a job, as well as their lodgings when the landlady finds out they've been fired. The boys try their luck at being street musicians, but the tiffs they get into with each other soon spread to passersby in general, until the street is filled with men pulling each other's pants off.
- Three inept firemen try to avoid being fired by their increasingly exasperated chief.
- Stan and Ollie get involved with con men, crooks, a genial magician, and two interchangeable coffins with disastrous but funny results.
- Ollie and Stanley are two Christmas Tree sales reps who get into one of their usual mutual-destruction fights with a disgruntled homeowner.
- Claude Kirchner hosted this children's show with a mixture of cartoons, film shorts (like "Diver Dan", which combined a live action actor and sea-creature puppets), and occasional guests. Cocomarsh Milk Mix was a longtime sponsor.
- Stan and Ollie take a trip into the mountains ('the high multitude') so Ollie can recover from gout. Bootleggers have dumped their moonshine in the well from which the boys sample their 'healthy' mountain water. Mr. Hall, who has left his wife with the boys while he refuels his car, is not amused at his wife's condition when he returns.
- After the events in Them Thar Hills (1934), Stan and Ollie encounter their old nemesis, whose grocery shop is next to their home-appliances store. Nobody can let bygones be bygones, and a war breaks out. Will those tit-for-tat battles ever end?
- Mr. Pest tries several theatre seats before winding up in front in a fight with the conductor. He is thrown out. In the lobby he pushes a fat lady into a fountain and returns to sit down by Edna. Mr. Rowdy, in the gallery, pours beer down on Mr. Pest and Edna. He attacks patrons, a harem dancer, the singers Dot and Dash, and a fire-eater.
- Rich oil tycoon (Finlayson) awakens one morning, after a night of carousing, to be told that he was married the night before. His lawyer (Laurel) is called in to straighten things out when a blackmail attempt is made. Wild chases through a dance hall and amusement park ensue.
- At a rail crossing, a small fender-bender incident turns into a major tit-for-tat retaliatory war among various motorists.
- A Cinderella story of a young country girl who comes to Hollywood and achieves movie stardom with the help of a publicity man.
- Instructional short aimed at school-aged children of the early 1950s that combines animation and live-action footage with voice-over narration to explain what to do to increase their chances of surviving the blast from an atomic bomb.
- Two bumbling servants are hired by a dizzy society matron to cook and serve a meal to visiting royalty.
- Dimwitted Cuthbert Hope is enlisted in the army, and gets himself and his sergeant in constant trouble
- Stan & Ollie attempt to fool their wives by sneaking out to a poker game, but instead get involved with two flirty ladies, one of whom is the girlfriend of a jealous boxer.
- Laurel and Hardy work at horse stables where a stallion named Blue Boy is kept. When they hear Gainsborough's famous painting, The Blue Boy, has been stolen, the duo rush to collect the offered reward.
- A con artist (Garvin) and her infant son, are unmasked aboard a ship by a steward (Laurel.)
- The gang decides to enter their animals in a local pet show.
- In Victorian London the esteemed Dr. Pyckle uses himself as a guinea pig when he experiments with a new drug that changes him into a compulsive prankster.
- Cut-rate lawyers Clark and McCullough defend a beautiful divorcee in court, while at the same time competing to be her next husband.
- Stanley's attempts to treat Oliver's cold include dropping a swab down his friend's throat, applying a mustard plaster to his rump, and inflating the air mattress from the gas jet until it has Oliver pressed against the ceiling.
- Oliver inherits a fortune and hires Stan as his butler and proceeds to torment him. Stan finally rebels and goes on a rampage, destroying Oliver's fancy furnishings.
- Buster agrees to pose as a murderer to throw off the police while his room mate, a reporter, searches for the real killer.
- An employee at a commercial laundry mistakenly thinks he's Chinese. Complications ensue.
- A collection of television celebrities pitch United States Savings bonds.
- In Paris, a stage-struck would-be actor is mistaken for an escaped convict.
- Stan (Stan Laurel) 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 to be an officer. Stan has to do something! There's no time to waste!
- 25 year old Cardew is still at school, run by a large headmaster Who lives and bets off the income that comes from Cardew s uncle will. Of course, the headmaster and the matron don't let Cardew leave school.
- An unappreciated man fakes his own death and returns with his cousin disguised as a butler. His cousin then holds a seance to let the dead confront his ungrateful wife and children.
- Rose, who works for a penny-pinching junk dealer, dreams of romance with wealthy bachelor Ted Tudor.
- Stan Laurel stars as a tramp, "a fierce, fiery, fearless, two-fisted loafer." Trouble announces itself as a plate loaded with doughnuts on a windowsill. The farmer's daughter takes pity on him and Stan falls in love. Before the end there will be tears, broken dishes and more doughnuts.
- Billy is a hobo who hangs around the train station. He creates disruption in the ticket office, at the lunch counter, and in the lives of some of the customers.
- When Dorothy jilts her fiancee, he tries to make her jealous by getting a friend of his to dress like a woman and pose as his new girlfriend.
- Stationed in Latin America, lonely sailor Stan wants company. He invites himself to a dinner the Chief has been invited to, where he becomes entranced with the pretty hostess -- much to the chagrin of the Chief and of her local beau.
- Buster becomes a fireman, but unfortunately not a particularly good one. He has a chance to prove himself, however, when three women are trapped in a burning building.
- A janitor ends up in the middle of a lover's feud.
- A young wife is contacted by a former boyfriend, who informs her that he has a collection of her love letters that he will turn over to her husband unless the woman pays him off. She and her butler hatch a plan to get the letters from the blackmailer before her husband sees them.
- During the Alaska gold rush, a miner hits the mother lode, but a corrupt sheriff jumps his claim, leading to a tremendous fight.
- Elmer Doolittle (Buster Keaton), an apprentice seaman doing training at the U. S. Navy's San Diego Training Station, can't seem to keep out of trouble or the brig. Most of his problems derive from the fact that the girlfriend, Dorothy (Dorothea Kent), of Gunners Mate Richard Mack (Vernon Dent)take a liking to Elmer.
- A nervy young man follows a pretty lady into a diner to flirt with her, but winds up getting stuck with the tab.
- A hapless door-to-door salesman tries to sell his 'miracle cure' to an unappreciative public.
- A chemist's brilliant new concoction makes him a target for gangsters.
- Elmer Doolittle, a hired hand on a farm, encounters some complications in his romancing and believes he will have to marry the farm-owner aunt of Molly, the pretty girl he loves. Further complications arise when a heavy rainstorm keeps the household up all night as the water breaks through and drenches them in their beds. Comes the day of the "shotgun" wedding and Buster is surprised and delighted when he finds the old aunt is marrying him off to her niece and not to herself.
- Scenes in a New York City dance hall.