James Parrott Movies

Slapstick experts host this look at the life and films of Charley Chase with rare film clips and photos.

For his birthday, Charley gets a cigarette lighter, but it won't light. He works on it with ill-suited tools amidst his family all giving advice....

Harold visits the Ozarks, where he has some funny experiences with a mountain girl and her eccentric family.

James Parrott joins every lodge in town to get in good with people as he tries to sell his fire extinguishers.

Paul is practicing the art of being a cowboy. He consults a book before firing his gun, climbing onto a saddle on top of a chair and then falling off...

Harold invades the "Gilded Guzzle" café, where he appropriates a lady's roll of money, hides under a table and impersonates a cigar store...

Stan plays a janitor at a hotel dropping letters and trying to retrieve them with a vacuum, getting wet, helping a lady shoot her cheating husband...

Finlayson plays an intrepid army cameraman on the battlefield in the world war, and Rowe plays his hapless assistant. Cranking away in no man's land,...

Tired of being constantly nagged by "Paul" and another suitor, their shared romantic interest (referred to as Paul's inamorata) purposely has herself...

Experience Stan and Ollie in their funniest scenes: whether they build a house as construction workers or try to impress two young ladies as sailors....

Casper is the baby-expert at a large department store and his life is less than peaceful as he provides much amusement for the babies at his own...

A car salesman wants to get marreid but has to make one last sell first.

A girl-shy professor runs into trouble at a ladies’ seminary.

Movie star Gloria Blossom (Jeanette Loff) is unhappy with her press agent's (Eddie Foy, Jr.) attempts at publicity. After reading newspaper stories...

Charley, representing a manufacturer of musical instruments, is sent to investigate why certain mail orders have not been settled. Charley, carrying...

Charley Chase on a boat with girls.

Chase makes tries to escape from a compromising situation with a dame he took to be his wife's sister.

After many difficulties getting into a baseball game with his girl, Paul is pressed into service as a pinch hitter.

Harold becomes the victim of a clever bulldog pup who chases him in and out of various places.

A nervy young man follows a pretty lady into a diner to flirt with her, but winds up getting stuck with the tab.