Movies: Joe Rock

While Larry Semon does not star in Rips and Rushes, its confident gags and frenetic pace suggest his touch. In the knockabout one-reeler set in a dance studio, three suitors compete for the girl. James Aubrey, the actor playing the father’s preferred...

Golf, we discover in this early Semon short, is a game that is played by striking a croquet ball with a hockey stick and seeing how many times it can hit Larry Semon....

Larry Semon is in the kitchen preparing food for a high society musical evening....

Larry Semon produces his take on a typical Keystone farce, the flirting-in-the-park routine, where pretty Florence Curtis is pursued by four typical Keystone types: the wealthy geezer, the moustachioed Italian, the derby-wearing tough and, of course,...

Unlucky Larry finds himself pursued by the police after he inadvertently steals a man's car and kidnaps his girlfriend....

A man comes home drunk in this slapstick comedy....