Le on la brute et le truand

Robert Macaire (Chevalier Macaire) was a noted criminal and assassin who appears in French plays. His name is renowned in French culture as that of the archetypal villain.

Jérôme Crainquebille, is an ageing vegetable seller who has sold groceries from his cart in in Paris for over 40 years. One day, he is harassed by a policeman who insists that he moves on. When he protest…

Buster clowns around in a blacksmith's shop until he and the smithy get in a fight which sends the smithy to jail. Buster helps several customers with horses, then destroys a Rolls Royce while fixing the …

Police Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice all the while obsessing over the gangster's girlfriend.

Three portly, white-face clowns wrangle over a cigar stub. One of them keeps it by hiding it in his mouth and similar ruses.

Rejected by the Army, Marines, and Navy for being too young, the punks help the war effort by throwing fruit at a shop they believe is owned by a Japanese American. Confronted by him wielding a short swor…

Onésime short

A man recognizes the thief who had previously robbed him as one of the men involved in an unrelated mob shootout.

Three crooks pull off a magnificent crime. As they're forced to hide out together they slowly begin to distrust each other.

Francois Villon, vagabond, poet and philosopher, and his friend Colin, leave the vagabond camp and start for Paris. En route to that city, Villon's heart is touched at sight of the eviction of an elderly …

A lad from a butcher shop is carrying a tray laden with a roast or a leg of lamb. A hobo grabs it and runs. The boy gives chase, ed by dogs, as neighbors watch the spectacle. The hobo jumps into a lar…

French short about King Francis I and his jester Triboulet, who form the basis for Hugo's play Le roi s'amuse (and Verdi's opera Rigoletto).

Two bumbling amateur bootleggers land behind bars during Prohibition when Stan accidentally sells their homemade beer to a policeman. In prison, Stan's loose tooth causes a distinctive buzzing sound that …

An entomologist guilty of trying to capture rare insects is condemned to be pinned on a giant cork.

When an escaped circus gorilla appears to have gone on a murderous rampage, a threatened attorney calls on the detective trio of Garrity, Harrigan and Mullivan to act as bodyguards. In short order, we di…

A butterfly collector unwittingly wanders into an Indian encampment while chasing a butterfly, but the tribe has resolved to kill the first white man who enters their encampment because white oil tycoons …

A meek young man must find the courage within when a rogue tramp menaces his hometown.

A bayou girl (Debbie Watson) and her kin (Frank McGrath, Denver Pyle) have run-ins with some rich folks.

In 1803, as the Louisiana Purchase looms, a brave frontiersman must stop a ruthless gun smuggler from seizing control of the new territory and declaring himself governor through violence and corruption.

A police detective uses his girlfriend to track down a homicidal maniac.