Ben Turpin Movies

Laurel is a Scottish reporter suspected of being a spy by police detective James Finlayson. Although trailed by the latter, Stan, who is reporting on...

The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of edition #1, then a tribute to movie people who have...

A roguish baron saves a girl from a carriage accident, and brings her to a backwoods Inn during a storm for refuge. There he hopes to have his way...

Sweedie decides to commit suicide when she is jilted by her sweetheart, the captain of the police department. After writing a note to him, she calmly...

A young writer, John Hale, inherits a fortune and moves into an alleged-haunted castle with his servant "Rusty." He discovers the 'hauntee' to be...

Sweedie, the cook, reads an ad in the newspaper for a maid to give her services in exchange for college tuition. She applies and is accepted.

A thief steals a $10,000 string of pearls from the star of a show. The thief runs into Ben (literally), and in the ensuing chaos the thief ends up...

The Keystone Hotel hosts a very prestigious beauty contest. When the cross-eyed judge presents the first prize to an elderly cleaning woman, angry...

The custom of young women "tagging" men on the public streets (on a day specially set aside and called "Tag Day") to secure funds for various...

Sweedie, the cook at the Rich household, buys a donkey from the captain of the police, but forgets to pay for it. He raids the house in an effort to...

Chase Me Charlie was an anthology consisting of excerpts from several of Chaplin's short films made for the Essanay Company, including The Tramp,...

Wallace Beery dresses up as a lady to fool the man.

Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for...

Amos faces a few difficulties as he tries to drive his cross-eyed wife and their two rambunctious children to California.

Sweedie, the cook, decides that it would be nice to learn to swim, so goes to a "dry land" swimming class for instruction. She is thrown out of the...

A burlesque of Shakespeare's immortal tragedy.

An American ambassador arrives in a small country that is being convulsed by political intrigue and civil unrest. He befriends the young boy who is...

A count shows up in Snakeville to deliver a letter telling matronly Margaret Joslin that she has inherited a lot of money, so of course he wants to...

Ben and fiancée Haver run a bakery and grocery. A mostly lost film, only seven minutes survive.

Short documentary about Chaplin's year at Essanay. Clips from Chaplin films but also from other Essanay films.