1928 Short Movies

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The Seashell and the Clergyman(1928)

3.5/5 (with 28 votes)

Obsessed with a general's woman, a clergyman has strange visions of death and lust, struggling against his own appetites.

Directed by Germaine Dulac - With Alex Allin, Génica Athanasiou, Lucien Bataille

We Faw Down(1928)

20min | Comedy

2.9/5 (with 13 votes)

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.

Directed by Leo McCarey - With Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Vivien Oakland, Bess Flowers, Kay Deslys, Dorothy Coburn, ...

The Starfish(1928)

21min | Romance / Love

3.5/5 (with 26 votes)

Two people stand on a road, out of focus. Seen distorted through a glass, they retire upstairs to a bedroom where she undresses. He says, "Adieu." Images: the beautiful girl, a starfish in a jar, city scenes, newspapers, tugboats. More images: starfish, the girl. "How beautiful she is." Repeatedly. He advances up the stair, knife in hand, starfish on the step. Three people stand on a road, out of focus. "How beautiful she was." "How beautiful she is." "Beautiful.".

Directed by Man Ray, Jacques-André Boiffard - With Alice Prin, Robert Desnos

You're Darn Tootin'(1928)

| 20min | Comedy

2.8/5 (with 19 votes)

Members of a municipal band, Stanley and Oliver seem to be always following someone else's lead, rather than that of the temperamental conductor.

Directed by Edgar Kennedy - With Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charlie Hall, Ham Kinsey, Otto Lederer, Rolfe Sedan, ...

Habeas Corpus(1928)

| 20min | Comedy

3.4/5 (with 11 votes)

Loony scientist hires Laurel and Hardy to raid the cemetery to keep him supplied with dead bodies for his experiments.

Directed by Leo McCarey, James Parrott - With Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Richard Carle, Charles A. Bachman, Charley Rogers

From Soup to Nuts(1928)

18min | Comedy

3.2/5 (with 15 votes)

Inexperienced waiters (Laurel & Hardy) are hired for a swank dinner party.

Directed by Edgar Kennedy - With Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Anita Garvin, Dorothy Coburn, Edna Marion, Gene Morgan, ...

The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra(1928)

14min | Comedy, Drama

3.2/5 (with 24 votes)

This short experimental film tells the story of a man who comes to Hollywood to become a star, only to fail and be dehumanized. He is identified by the number 9413 written on his forehead.

Directed by Robert Florey

Two Tars(1928)

| 21min | Comedy

3.3/5 (with 21 votes)

Two sailors shore leave rent a car and go on a drive with their dates, but soon get involved in a huge traffic jam with dozens of ill-tempered motorists. A minor collision sets off an escalating series of retaliations.

Directed by James Parrott - With Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charlie Hall, Edgar Kennedy, Charley Rogers, Baldwin Cooke, ...

The Finishing Touch(1928)

19min | Comedy

3.5/5 (with 17 votes)

Stan and Ollie are hired to build a house in just one day. When they are done, a bird lands on the house and it collapses. Naturally, the owner wants his money back.

Directed by Clyde Bruckman - With Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Dorothy Coburn, Edgar Kennedy, Sam Lufkin

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Pass the Gravy(1928)

23min | Comedy

3.0/5 (with 8 votes)

Schultz raises prize chickens and roosters that are always getting into neighbor Max Davidson's garden and eating the seeds, leading to constant feuding between the two men. When their children announce their engagement the two men decide to bury the hatchet and Davidson suggests a dinner at his house. He gives his young son, Ignatz, two dollars to buy a chicken but the boy pockets the money and kills Schultz' first place rooster instead. Once seated at the table all but Schultz discover what they are eating and desperately try to hide the bad news from Schultz who is sure to kill Davidson if he knows the truth.

Directed by Fred Guiol, Leo McCarey - With Bert Sprotte, Gene Morgan, Martha Sleeper, Max Davidson, Spec O'Donnell

Their Purple Moment(1928)

22min | Comedy

3.2/5 (with 10 votes)

The boys sneak out for a night on the town, unaware that Stan's wife has switched her grocery coupons for Stan's secret stash of mad money. The boys run up a huge tab treating a couple of girls to dinner at a snazzy nightclub and much trouble ensues.

Directed by James Parrott - With Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Anita Garvin, Kay Deslys, Fay Holderness, Tiny Sandford, ...

Leave 'Em Laughing(1928)

21min | Comedy

3.0/5 (with 17 votes)

Stan complains of a toothache and he and Ollie visit the dentist. Ollie gets his teeth pulled by mistake. Under the influence of laughing gas, they leave and cause much commotion on the road annoying a traffic cop.

Directed by Clyde Bruckman, Frank Butler - With Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edgar Kennedy, Charlie Hall, Otto Fries, Dorothy Coburn, ...

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Napoleon's Barber(1928)

| 32min | Drama

Arthur Caesar's classic about the barber who held the fate of France in his hands, has been produced on lavish feature-film scale by John Ford, the man who made The Iron Horse and Four Sons.

Directed by John Ford - With Otto Matieson, Buddy Roosevelt, Frank Reicher, Helen Ware, Michael Mark

The Sex Life of the Polyp(1928)

| 11min | Comedy

2.3/5 (with 5 votes)

Dr. Benchley is addressing the Ladies Club on the subject of the reproductive habits of the polyp, a small aquatic organism. Although he is not able to display his live specimens, he has prepared a series of pictures of his subjects. He explains that the subject is made more complicated by the fact that polyps are able to change their sex from time to time. Then he presents some of the pictures of his specimens and the experiments that he has done with them.

Directed by Thomas Hardie Chalmers - With Robert Benchley

Flying Elephants(1928)

17min | Comedy

2.7/5 (with 7 votes)

Cavemen Stan and Ollie vie for the affections of a stone-age beauty.

Directed by Frank Butler - With Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Jimmy Finlayson, Dorothy Coburn, Fay Lanphier, Tiny Sandford, ...

There It Is(1928)

19min | Horror, Comedy, Animation, Mystery

3.4/5 (with 8 votes)

When a mysterious figure appears to cause a series of disruptions at the Frisbie Home in New York, word goes out to Scotland Yard that the Fuzz-Faced Phantom is at work. Soon, Charley MacNeesha and his assistant MacGregor are sent across the ocean to investigate.

Directed by Harold L. Muller, Charles Bowers - With Charles Bowers, Kathryn McGuire, Melbourne MacDowell, Blue Washington

The Smile Wins(1928)

20min | Comedy

3.3/5 (with 1 vote)

Farina's mother is very ill and the mortgage is due. He tries to take over her laundry business, but the kids just wreck the clothes. Joe takes pity and devises a scheme to make money: the gang builds their own oil well.

Directed by Robert F. McGowan

Accident(1928)

21min | Crime, Drama

3.6/5 (with 8 votes)

A tense vignette about the fate of an unlucky man in poverty-stricken Weimar-era Germany.

Directed by Ernő Metzner - With Heinrich Gotho, Sybille Schmitz, Alexander Granach, Kurt Gerron, Gustav Püttjer, Eva Schmid-Kayser, ...

Should Married Men Go Home?(1928)

20min | Comedy

3.2/5 (with 9 votes)

Mrs. Hardy throws Ollie and Stan out of the house. They try to impress two young ladies at a golf course and end up fighting with other golfers.

Directed by Leo McCarey, James Parrott - With Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edgar Kennedy, Dorothy Coburn, Jack Hill, John Aasen, ...

The Dancing Town(1928)

| 20min | Drama

Young kids face off in a dance competition.

Directed by Edmund Lawrence - With Humphrey Bogart, Helen Hayes, Hal Skelly

Early to Bed(1928)

18min | Comedy

2.9/5 (with 6 votes)

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.

Directed by Emmett J. Flynn - With Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy

School Begins(1928)

20min | Comedy

One of a handful of currently unavailable Hal Roach/MGM “Our Gang” silent films, School Begins was a series of gags built around the unenviable ritual of returning to school during the first week of September. School begins and some gang members are forging notes from their mother wanting out. Then too-young Wheezer parades by the school with escaped circus seals following him, causing a disturbance.

Directed by Robert A. McGowan

Fair and Muddy(1928)

20min | Comedy

Living in an orphanage, the gang has to deal with Amanda, a child-hating spinster. To receive a bequest from a rich uncle, she must acquire a child. Thinking suspicion, the gang causes all kinds of havoc toward her including a mud battle.

With Joe Cobb

The Home Girl(1928)

| 20min | Drama

A short film featuring the debut of actress Miriam Hopkins.

The Campus Vamp(1928)

19min | Comedy

2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Love triangle in a campus with a blonde girl that really seems to not consider the "other" girl as an obstacle. Who will make it? And actually who cares when parties, sport games and lots of fun are available?

Directed by Harry Edwards - With Daphne Pollard, Sally Eilers, Carole Lombard

Spook Spoofing(1928)

32min | Comedy

3.4/5 (with 1 vote)

As a joke, several members of the gang convince Farina, who is "brave but superstitious", that he's caused the demise of a young acquaintance and must therefore lay the body (actually still very alive) to rest in the old burying ground, under the watchful eye of "the graveyard witch". The joke backfires spectacularly on the pranksters.

Directed by Robert F. McGowan - With Joe Cobb

Should Tall Men Marry?(1928)

20min | Comedy, Western

3.3/5 (with 2 votes)

This western comedy is about rancher Finlayson's beautiful daughter, Martha Sleeper, who refuses to marry the bad guy and how Jimmy and dimwitted cowhand Stan bumble their way into a successful defense of her and the ranch.

Directed by Louis J. Gasnier, Clyde Bruckman - With Stan Laurel

Barnum & Ringling, Inc.(1928)

20min | Comedy

3.6/5 (with 2 votes)

The kids decide to put on a circus at the local hotel. Seeing various pets and other domestic animals dressed up like circus animals was very cute--particularly the dachshund dressed as a seal! However, the animals all get loose and terrorize the hotel guests--including a drunk played by Oliver Hardy.

Directed by Robert F. McGowan

Mickey in School(1928)

22min | Comedy

It's the first day back at school for Mickey and the gang, which means plenty of pain for the schoolteacher. But things really heat up when a fire breaks out in the schoolhouse.

Directed by Albert Herman - With Mickey Rooney

The Beau Brummels(1928)

9min | Comedy, Music

2.5/5 (with 5 votes)

Vaudeville team Shaw & Lee sing songs and tell jokes in hilarious deadpan.

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1928 Short Movies

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The Seashell and the Clergyman(1928)

We Faw Down(1928)

The Starfish(1928)

You're Darn Tootin'(1928)

Habeas Corpus(1928)

From Soup to Nuts(1928)

The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra(1928)

Two Tars(1928)

The Finishing Touch(1928)

Pass the Gravy(1928)

Their Purple Moment(1928)

Leave 'Em Laughing(1928)

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Napoleon's Barber(1928)

The Sex Life of the Polyp(1928)

Flying Elephants(1928)

There It Is(1928)

The Smile Wins(1928)

Accident(1928)

Should Married Men Go Home?(1928)

The Dancing Town(1928)

Early to Bed(1928)

School Begins(1928)

Fair and Muddy(1928)

The Home Girl(1928)

The Campus Vamp(1928)

Spook Spoofing(1928)

Should Tall Men Marry?(1928)

Barnum & Ringling, Inc.(1928)

Mickey in School(1928)

The Beau Brummels(1928)

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