1921 Comedy Movies

68 movies found (page 1/3):

The Goat(1921)

3.7/5 (with 40 votes)

A series of adventures begins when Buster is mistaken for Dead Shot Dan, the evil bad guy.

Directed by Buster Keaton, Malcolm St. Clair - With Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts, Edward F. Cline, Jean Havez, Joe Keaton, ...

The Idle Class(1921)

32min | Comedy

3.3/5 (with 30 votes)

At an upper class golf resort, a tramp discovers he's the lookalike of a rich man with a beautiful, unhappy wife.

Directed by Charlie Chaplin - With Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Mack Swain, Henry Bergman, Lita Grey, Al Ernest Garcia, ...

The High Sign(1921)

21min | Crime, Comedy

3.6/5 (with 33 votes)

Buster is thrown off a train near an amusement park. There he gets a job in a shooting gallery run by the Blinking Buzzards mob. Ordered to kill a businessman, he winds up protecting the man and his daughter by outfitting their home with trick devices.

Directed by Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline - With Buster Keaton, Al St. John, Charles Dorety, Bartine Burkett

The Boat(1921)

26min | Comedy

3.2/5 (with 32 votes)

Buster's handmade boat, The Damfino, is finished and is, of course, too large to get through the basement door. When he drives off with it in tow, the side of his house, then the whole thing, collapses. At the harbor he rides the boat out only to have it sink beneath him. The rest is a series of adventures he and his family have with the restored boat.

Directed by Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline - With Sybil Seely, Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline

The Play House(1921)

22min | Comedy, Fantasy

3.5/5 (with 39 votes)

After waking up from his wacky dream, a theater stage hand inadvertently causes havoc everywhere he works.

Directed by Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline - With Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts, Edward F. Cline

The Haunted House(1921)

| 21min | Comedy, Horror

3.3/5 (with 35 votes)

Buster Keaton is a bank teller who becomes involved with a hold-up, counterfeiters, and a theatrical troupe posing as spooks in a haunted house.

Directed by Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton - With Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Keaton, Joe Roberts, Edward F. Cline, Joseph Roberts, ...

I Do(1921)

25min | Comedy

2.8/5 (with 8 votes)

Comic adventures of newlyweds and children.

Directed by Hal Roach - With Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Charles King, Lee Phelps, Noah Young

Hard Luck(1921)

22min | Comedy

3.5/5 (with 27 votes)

A down on his luck young man makes several attempts at committing suicide but fails them too. He then finds himself becoming more confident through a series of petty adventures, to such an extent that this becomes his undoing.

Directed by Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton - With Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts, Bull Montana

Among Those Present(1921)

35min | Comedy

2.8/5 (with 6 votes)

An ambitious coat-room checker impersonates an English nobleman.

Directed by Fred C. Newmeyer - With Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Mildred B. Davis, Aggie Herring, Harry Davenport, James T. Kelley, ...

Now or Never(1921)

36min | Comedy

3.0/5 (with 9 votes)

A young man, unaccustomed to children, must accompany a young girl on a train trip.

Directed by Hal Roach, Fred C. Newmeyer - With Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Noah Young, Sammy Brooks, Charles Stevenson

Never Weaken(1921)

| 29min | Comedy

3.4/5 (with 14 votes)

Our hero (Lloyd) is infatuated with a girl in the next office. In order to drum up business for her boss, an osteopath, he gets an actor friend to pretend injuries that the doctor "cures", thereby building a reputation. When he hears that his girl is marrying another, he decides to commit suicide and spends the bulk of the film in thrilling, failed attempts.

Directed by Fred C. Newmeyer - With Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Robert Emmett O'Connor, Charles Stevenson

Seven Years Bad Luck(1921)

1h 2min | Comedy

3.6/5 (with 8 votes)

After breaking a mirror in his home, superstitious Max tries to avoid situations which could bring bad luck, but in doing so causes himself the worst luck imaginable.

Directed by Max Linder - With Max Linder, Alta Allen, Hugh Saxon, Lola Gonzales

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The Lucky Dog(1921)

| 24min | Comedy

3.0/5 (with 9 votes)

In their first screen appearance together, Stan plays a penniless dog lover and Oliver plays a crook who tries to rob him and his new paramour.

Directed by Jess Robbins - With Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy

Be My Wife(1921)

55min | Comedy

3.4/5 (with 5 votes)

Max is determined to woo Mary, despite her Aunt Agatha's disapproval.

Directed by Max Linder - With Max Linder, Alta Allen, Rose Dione

Peck's Bad Boy(1921)

51min | Comedy

1.5/5 (with 2 votes)

PECKS BAD BOY (1921-USA). With JACKIE COOGAN, JAMES CORRIGAN. A delightful and very funny comedy about that little imp with the scheming mind Of a devil. Coogans first film after his triumph with Chaplin in THE KID. This very well done portrayal Of small town life before the War is based on a small boys determination to get to see the circus, over all obstacles. Escaped lions, lightheaded blackmail Of his father, and playfully planting stolen papers on his sisters boyfriend are all in a days work for little Henry Peck.

Directed by Sam Wood - With Jackie Coogan

A Small Town Idol(1921)

1h 10min | Comedy

3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Sam, a young man in a small town, is accused of being a thief. Unable to prove his innocence--and not knowing that he's being framed by a local villain to keep him away from pretty young Mary, the town beauty whom the villain wants for himself--he leaves town and goes to Hollywood to become an actor. He eventually returns home to town as a star, but once again finds himself the victim of the town villain, who this time abducts sweet young Mary. Sam must use all his acting skills to track down the villain and save Mary.

Directed by Erle C. Kenton, Mack Sennett - With Ben Turpin, Jimmy Finlayson, Phyllis Haver, Marie Prevost, Dot Farley, Louise Fazenda, ...

Brewster's Millions(1921)

1h 1min | Comedy

Monte Brewster learns that he has inherited $10 million from his late grandfather, but then learns that he must spend $2 million in less than a year and remain unmarried to inherit the rest of the money.

Directed by Joseph Henabery - With Roscoe Arbuckle, Charles Stanton Ogle, Fred Huntley, Jean Acker, Neely Edwards, William Boyd, ...

Oh Mary Be Careful(1921)

50min | Comedy

"Mary Meacham, the most popular girl in college, goes to live with her maiden aunt, Miss Myra. Auntie is a man-hater who has various theories for testing the desirable qualities of the male sex. Mary sees a dreary man-less time before her and sends an S. O. S. to various sisters and their brothers to visit her while Auntie is away.

Directed by Arthur Ashley - With Madge Kennedy

King, Queen and Joker(1921)

50min

2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

King, Queen, Joker is a 1921 silent feature farce written and directed by Sydney Chaplin, Charlie's older brother. The picture was produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed through Paramount Pictures. The film was shot in England, France and the United States. Less than a reel of this film, the barbershop sequence, survives at the British Film Institute. It was included in the 2011 Criterion DVD special two disc edition release of The Great Dictator.

Directed by Sydney Chaplin - With Sydney Chaplin

Ducks and Drakes(1921)

58min | Romance / Love, Comedy

3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A spoiled rich young woman overspends from her parents' savings and ruthlessly vamps on young men that she calls up randomly on the telephone. When her fiancée and his friends get word of this, they hatch a plan to teach her a valuable lesson.

Directed by Maurice Campbell

The Concert(1921)

A concert pianist, the romantic idol of many women, is seduced away from his wife. The seductress's husband takes in the pianist's wife, and all four pretend to be happy with the new arrangement.

Directed by Victor Schertzinger - With Lewis Stone

Society Secrets(1921)

50min

Amos Kerran and his wife live a traditional, old-fashioned life on a Connecticut farm, while their son and daughter, Arthur and Maybelle, are successes in New York society. The children want to invite their parents to the city at Christmastime but are ashamed of their unrefined appearance.

Directed by Leo McCarey - With Carl Stockdale, Gertrude Claire, Lee Shumway

Molly O'(1921)

1h 20min | Comedy

4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

An Irish washerwoman's daughter falls in love with one of America's most eligible bachelors, much to the dismay of the girl's parents -- and the young doctor's newly acquired fiancée! Events come to a head at the charity masked ball, which the two girls happen to attend in very similar costumes, thanks to the largesse of Molly's benevolent "fairy godfather"...

Directed by F. Richard Jones, Ray Grey - With Mabel Normand, George Nichols

The Bakery(1921)

Crime, Comedy, Action

1.4/5 (with 1 vote)

Well-meaning but accident-prone bakery employee Larry is involved in numerous slapstick mishaps on the job. After accidentally causing the bakery owner to fall into a vat of cake batter Larry finds his job in jeopardy, but he redeems himself by foiling a robbery planned by the bakery foreman.

Directed by Larry Semon, Norman Taurog - With Oliver Hardy, Al Thompson, Larry Semon, Eva Thatcher

The Bell Hop(1921)

20min | Comedy

2.8/5 (with 1 vote)

A government official staying in a hotel puts some important secret papers in the hotel safe. A ring of spies out to get the papers manages to steal them from the safe, and a lady government agent enlists the help of the hotel's bumbling bellhop in getting back the papers and breaking up the spy ring.

Directed by Larry Semon, Norman Taurog - With Oliver Hardy, Al Thompson, Larry Semon

Humor Risk(2021)

Comedy

Humor Risk, also known as Humorisk, is a 1921 comedy short film that was the first film to star the Marx Brothers. It was never released and is now considered a lost film. The print may have been accidentally thrown away when left in the screening box overnight. Another version of the story says that Groucho Marx, unhappy with the film's quality, intentionally burned the negative after a particularly bad premiere screening.

Directed by Richard Smith - With Chico Marx, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Zeppo Marx, Jobyna Ralston, Marx Brothers, ...

When We Were Twenty-One(1921)

Comedy, Drama

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Directed by Henry King - With H. B. Warner, James W. Morrison, Christine Mayo, Claire Anderson

Alias Ladyfingers(1921)

When Rachel Stetherill's daughter marries a man of whom she disapproves, Rachel disowns her. Five years later her daughter, now widowed, is killed. Her young son comes under the influence of a professional safecracker and is soon on his way to becoming a hardened criminal. Twenty yeas later the Stetherill family lawyer learns that the infamous thief known as Ladyfingers bears a striking resemblance to Rachel's husband--and has fallen in love with Enid, Mrs. Stetherill's young ward. Complications ensue.

Directed by Bayard Veiller - With Bert Lytell

The Rent Collector(1921)

29min | Comedy, Action

3.2/5 (with 3 votes)

The Rent Collector is a 1921 American silent comedy film featuring Larry Semon & Oliver Hardy.

Directed by Larry Semon, Norman Taurog - With Oliver Hardy, Larry Semon, Frank Alexander, Leo Willis, William Hauber, Stan Laurel, ...

Gasoline Gus(1921)