1918 Short Movies

66 movies found (page 1/3):

A Dog's Life(1918)

3.7/5 (with 133 votes)

The Tramp and his dog companion struggle to survive in the inner city.

Directed by Charlie Chaplin - With Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Albert Austin, Sydney Chaplin, Henry Bergman, Charles Reisner, ...

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The Cook(1918)

| 22min | Comedy, Action

3.2/5 (with 30 votes)

In an attempt at greater efficiency, the chef of a fancy oceanside restaurant and his assistant wreak havoc in the establishment. Adding to the complications is the arrival of a robber.

Directed by Roscoe Arbuckle - With Roscoe Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Al St. John, Alice Lake, Glen Cavender, John Rand, ...

The Bell Boy(1918)

| 33min | Comedy

3.3/5 (with 24 votes)

At the Elk's Head Hotel bellhops torment the lobby, each other and guests. The elevator is powered by a stubborn horse. A sham robbery turns into a real one. And there is a chase on a runaway trolley.

Directed by Roscoe Arbuckle - With Roscoe Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Al St. John, Charles Dudley, Alice Lake, Joe Keaton, ...

Good Night, Nurse!(1918)

| 26min | Comedy

2.8/5 (with 17 votes)

Roscoe's wife, tired of his endless drunkenness, reads of an operation that cures alcoholism and has him admitted to No Hope Sanitarium to get the surgery. Roscoe, wanting out, eventually disguises himself as a nurse to effect his escape.

Directed by Roscoe Arbuckle - With Roscoe Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Al St. John, Alice Lake, Joe Bordeaux, Joe Keaton, ...

I Don't Want to Be a Man(1918)

45min | Comedy, Romance / Love

3.2/5 (with 27 votes)

A teenage tomboy, tired of being bossed around by her strict guardian, impersonates a man so she can have more fun. She quickly discovers that being the opposite sex isn’t as easy as she had hoped for. What ensues is a gender-bending comedy decades ahead of its time.

Directed by Ernst Lubitsch - With Ossi Oswalda, Curt Goetz, Ferry Sikla, Margarete Kupfer, Victor Janson

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Out West(1918)

| 25min | Comedy, Western

3.1/5 (with 22 votes)

The story involves Arbuckle coming to the western town of Mad Dog Gulch after being thrown off a train and chased by Indians. He teams up with gambler/saloon owner Bill Bullhum, in trying to keep the evil Wild Bill Hickup away from Salvation Army girl, Salvation Sue. Fatty and Buster have a series of adventures trying to beat St. John, until they discover his one weakness: his ticklishness.

Directed by Roscoe Arbuckle - With Buster Keaton, Al St. John, Alice Lake, Joe Keaton, Roscoe Arbuckle, Ernie Morrison Sr., ...

A Scrap of Paper(1918)

| Comedy

2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle confronts the Kaiser in his headquarters, and tells him that he will be be defeated by "scraps of paper," i.e. War Bonds.

Directed by Roscoe Arbuckle - With Roscoe Arbuckle, Al St. John, Monty Banks, Glen Cavender

An Ozark Romance(1918)

| 11min | Comedy

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

Directed by Alfred J. Goulding - With Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels, Sammy Brooks, James Parrott

Take a Chance(1918)

| 10min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love

3.0/5 (with 8 votes)

It's a classic boy-meets-girl story, boy-loses-girl, boy gets mistaken for an escaped convict and ruthlessly chased by armies of cops across the countryside in a thrill-packed stunt-addled climax.

Directed by Alfred J. Goulding - With Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels, Sammy Brooks

Hey There(1918)

| 10min | Comedy

3.4/5 (with 3 votes)

In this early short Harold Lloyd sneaks into a movie studio in order to locate an attractive young lady he's just met at a snack bar. He's retrieved a letter she dropped and wants to return it to her, but it's pretty clear that his interest extends beyond mere politeness. (She's the adorable young Bebe Daniels, so this is easy to understand.) The movie studio setting provides Harold with lots of opportunities to do what comedians do in comedies like this one: flirt with actresses, anger the studio brass, and dash through sets disrupting everything.

Directed by Alfred J. Goulding - With Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels, Sammy Brooks, Snub Pollard

Here Come the Girls(1918)

| 11min | Comedy

1.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Bebe and girlfriend go shopping for new corsets. Harold sneaks into the corset shop and a customer asks him to take her measurements - a ticklish task, as the brash young man suddenly becomes playfully bashful.

Directed by Fred Hibbard - With Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels, Sammy Brooks, Snub Pollard, Bud Jamison, Gus Leonard, ...

Moonshine(1918)

| 23min | Comedy

2.8/5 (with 16 votes)

A feud between the Owens and the Gillettes ends when the last remaining Gillette is killed, but new trouble erupts for the mountain folk with the arrival of a U.S. revenue agent and his assistant.

Directed by Roscoe Arbuckle - With Buster Keaton, Roscoe Arbuckle, Joe Roberts, Al St. John, Alice Lake, Joe Bordeaux, ...

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Know Thy Wife(1918)

13min | Comedy

2.4/5 (with 6 votes)

Rather than telling his parents, who have another girl picked out for him, Bob brings home his new wife disguised as his friend "Steve.".

Directed by Al Christie - With Dorothy Devore

Kicking the Germ Out of Germany(1918)

| 11min | Comedy

Our hero has a dream, while in the trenches at the front, that he is in Berlin rescuing a Red Cross nurse from the hands of the Kaiser and his henchmen.

Directed by Alfred J. Goulding - With Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels

Are Crooks Dishonest?(1918)

| 13min | Comedy

2.7/5 (with 4 votes)

Con artists Harold and Snub attempt to outwit phony psychic Miss Goulash and her "professor" father.

Directed by Gilbert Pratt - With Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels, Snub Pollard, Sammy Brooks, Gus Leonard, Charles Stevenson, ...

Swing Your Partners(1918)

| 11min | Comedy

2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Hijinx at a classical dance academy when two tramps take a stab at ballet.

Directed by Alfred J. Goulding - With Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels, Sammy Brooks

Two Scrambled(1918)

| 11min | Comedy

Roomers in a boarding house break the rules and are caught cooking if their room. A frantic run-in with the landlady ensues.

Directed by Gilbert Pratt - With Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels, James Parrott

Frauds and Frenzies(1918)

21min

2.9/5 (with 3 votes)

The story is of two convicts always trying to escape, until one day when they actually manage to. They meet up with a girl and become rivals for her charms.

Directed by Larry Semon - With Stan Laurel, Larry Semon

Bears and Bad Men(1918)

19min

2.6/5 (with 1 vote)

Bears and Bad Men is a 1918 silent comedy film directed by Larry Semon[1] and featuring Stan Laurel.

Directed by Larry Semon - With Stan Laurel, Larry Semon, Frank Alexander, Mae Dahlberg

A Gasoline Wedding(1918)

| 9min | Comedy

2.7/5 (with 2 votes)

A rich man's daughter has more suitors than she's interested in, and he's going to marry her off -- even if she doesn't know about it.

Directed by Alfred J. Goulding - With Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels, Sammy Brooks, Snub Pollard, Lige Conley, Lew Harvey, ...

The Non-Stop Kid(1918)

| 12min | Comedy

2.6/5 (with 5 votes)

Bebe is surrounded by suitors, but her father wants her to marry Professor M. T. Noodle. Harold makes his move by impersonating the professor.

Directed by Gilbert Pratt - With Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels, Sammy Brooks, Snub Pollard

The City Slicker(1918)

| 12min | Comedy

2.5/5 (with 4 votes)

Our hero gets a job at a hotel in the country and proceeds to introduce some changes, installing gadgets and time-saving devices.

Directed by Gilbert Pratt - With Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels, Sammy Brooks, Snub Pollard, Dee Lampton, Gus Leonard, ...

On the Jump(1918)

| 11min | Comedy

On the Jump is a 1918 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd.

Directed by Alfred J. Goulding - With Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels, Sammy Brooks, Snub Pollard, June Havoc, Gus Leonard, ...

Just Rambling Along(1918)

9min | Comedy

2.5/5 (with 4 votes)

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

Directed by Hal Roach - With Stan Laurel, James Parrott, Charley Chase

Huns and Hyphens(1918)

20min

3.0/5 (with 3 votes)

This film represents one of Larry Semon's pro-war films. He is a clumsy guy working in a restaurant and oddly, everyone who works in the place as well as many of the customers are Kaiser-loving spies. Why they would be headquartered in a restaurant in California, I have no idea! Regardless, their aim is to steal some plans from some old guy and his daughter. When Semon finds out, he comes to the rescue.

Directed by Larry Semon - With Stan Laurel, Larry Semon, Mae Dahlberg, Frank Alexander

The Stranger(1918)

14min | Comedy

2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

After a luckless prospecting trip, Billy starts homeward across the desert, mounted on his little burro with his pick, shovel and pack strapped up behind him. Finally he comes in sight of Red Dog Gulch and, hungry and thirsty, he pushes on toward the city. Susie is the daughter of the town drunkard. She starts out on her horse for a little ride, and a little way from town is attacked by Pedro and Little Casino, two Mexicans, who try to steal her horse. Billy happens along, runs the Mexicans off and takes Susie back to town.

Directed by Arvid E. Gillstrom - With Billy West, Oliver Hardy, Billy West, YONAS YEWEN., A. Md. Tek, Leo White, Bud Ross, ...

The Sheriff(1918)

| 18min | Comedy, Western

Roscoe Arbuckle plays a Douglas Fairbanks fan who becomes a rotund version of his hero. As "The Sheriff", he must rescue abducted schoolteacher Betty Compson.

Directed by Roscoe Arbuckle - With Roscoe Arbuckle, Betty Compson, Monty Banks, Glen Cavender

Nothing But Trouble(1918)

| 10min | Comedy

Harold appears as an active young man who gets a job as waiter in a restaurant. Disaster overtakes him and he is hurried off to jail at the close.

Directed by Hal Roach - With Harold Lloyd

Why Pick on Me?(1918)

| 11min | Comedy

2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A trip to the beach is the location for this 1918 Comedy short.

With Harold Lloyd, Snub Pollard

Two-Gun Gussie(1918)

| 10min | Comedy, Western

2.7/5 (with 4 votes)

A mild-mannered young man has left home, and is now playing the piano in a bar in the west. The dangerous criminal Dagger-Tooth Dan enters the bar where the young man is playing. Soon afterwards, the local sheriff also arrives, with some letters that he has received. Dan notices the letters, and he switches the information in them to make the sheriff think that the piano player is the dangerous one.

Directed by Alfred J. Goulding - With Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels, Snub Pollard, Charles Stevenson

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1918 Short Movies

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A Dog's Life(1918)

The Cook(1918)

The Bell Boy(1918)

Good Night, Nurse!(1918)

I Don't Want to Be a Man(1918)

Out West(1918)

A Scrap of Paper(1918)

An Ozark Romance(1918)

Take a Chance(1918)

Hey There(1918)

Here Come the Girls(1918)

Moonshine(1918)

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Know Thy Wife(1918)

Kicking the Germ Out of Germany(1918)

Are Crooks Dishonest?(1918)

Swing Your Partners(1918)

Two Scrambled(1918)

Frauds and Frenzies(1918)

Bears and Bad Men(1918)

A Gasoline Wedding(1918)

The Non-Stop Kid(1918)

The City Slicker(1918)

On the Jump(1918)

Just Rambling Along(1918)

Huns and Hyphens(1918)

The Stranger(1918)

The Sheriff(1918)

Nothing But Trouble(1918)

Why Pick on Me?(1918)

Two-Gun Gussie(1918)

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