Gus Meins

Ollie Dee and Stanley Dum try to borrow money from their employer, the toymaker, to pay off the mortgage on Mother Peep's shoe and keep it and Little Bo Peep from the clutches of the evil Barnaby. When that fails, they trick Barnaby into marrying Stanley Dum instead of Bo Peep. Enraged, Barnaby unleashes the bogeymen from their caverns to destroy Toyland. (imdb)

The gang attends a radio station amateur show. (imdb)

Produced by Hal Roach, Kelly the Second is one of the few feature films to capture the comic spirit of Roach's wonderful two-reelers. Patsy Kelly stars as Molly Kelly, who as the result of an unexpected street brawl becomes the trainer of truck-driver-turned-prizefighter Cecil Callahan (Guinn "Big Boy" Williams). It seems that Cecil is a gentle soul who turns into a fighting fool whenever he hears the strains of "The Irish Washerwoman". (allrovi.com)

A magic lamp lets a young couple become kids again and exposes a mean old man who runs his orphanage like a prison. (imdb)

The gang goes after pirate treasure they believe is hidden in a cave. (imdb)

Wally (the rich kid of our gang team) brings his pet mule along with the gang back home. (imdb)

The gang decides to build their own fire engine. (imdb)

The kids try to raise money to buy a doll for Marianne. (imdb)

The gang packs up for a camping trip to Cherry Creek two miles from their home, but to them it is the wilderness. After night falls, the hooting owls and croaking frogs conjure up visions of spooks. When a thunderstorm hits, they all scurry for home. (imdb)

The gang puts on a show, everything goes well, except they're missing an act. (imdb)

The gang's treasury is entrusted to Spanky, who accidentally gets it mixed up with his father's money. (imdb)

Rather than go to church, Spanky decides to go fishing - with disastrous results. (imdb)

Spanky's mother's pushes him to join a local theater amateur night. (imdb)

An officer moves into the neighborhood, and everybody wants to get friendly with his daughter. (imdb)

Scotty and his grandfather Gus are the proprietors of a sidewalk lemonade stand. The small operation struggles to compete with the ornate sidewalk diner run by Leonard's father. Leonard is too engrossed in his comic book to pay attention to waiting customers, and when they leave he whines to his father, who gets a policeman to force Gus and Scotty from their corner. Buckwheat's father, a boot black, offers Gus room to set up his stand, while Spanky, Alfalfa, and the other kids stage a parade. (en.wikipedia.org)

A lonely, rich, hypochondriac is celebrating her 65th birthday in the same manner in which she observes the other 364 days of the year by complaining, berating her servants, taking her pills and grumping about everything around her, including the sunshine. A toy airplane comes flying through an open window and breaks a vase, and when its owner, Spanky, comes in search of it he is informed he will have to pay seventy-five cents for the broken vase. (imdb)

In this entry in the comedy series the "Higgins Family," the group must cancel a cruise to South America after the check they needed does not arrive. To save face before their neighbors, the family embarks upon a wilderness fishing trip. The family made a wise decision to forego the cruise as the boat sinks and everyone is lost. This creates havoc for the Higgins family neighbors who believe they went down with the ship. (imdb)

When Betty's father sees the condescending attitude displayed toward her by a rich family, he decides to get back at them by making them believe that his family has "royal" connections. (imdb)

Native son returns from school in Spain to California in 1855 and finds corrupt politicians stealing land from old California families. He becomes a sort of Robin Hood in order to fight them. (imdb)

Agent Pete Garland is fired by society singer Monica Barrett after he got her a new radio contract, because she thinks her lawyer friend Teddy Leeds fits in better with her social status. To get even, Pete wants to make an unknown singer into a star. He finds Ruth Allison, drives her hard through rehearsals and makes her a star. But she is worried about her past, something she hasn't told Pete: She's an ex-convict and jumped bail in order to keep her partners in crime out of it. (imdb)

Pa Higgins' attempts at success in the advertising business are constantly frustrated by his eccentric family. (imdb)

In this comedy, a milquetoast clerk is betrothed to the socialite whose aunt holds a big account with his company. When the agency owner hears that the generous aunt is preparing to close her account and give all the money to the happy couple, the boss decides to stop the wedding. To do so, he hires the seductive blonde wife of a vaudevillian friend to play a "practical joke" upon the hapless clerk. The joke almost succeeds when he comes very close to losing his beloved. (allmovie.com)

Singing cowboy Randy shows up at Mrs. Blake's ranch. She is beset by bad guys, and Randy loves her daughter Janet. (imdb)

In this episode of the Higgins Family series, pandemonium ensues when Ma enters a dog biscuit contest. The prize is a whopping $50,000. Unfortunately, the company is represented by Pa's ad agency and his wife cannot legally enter. The trouble is, to win, Ma purchased every dog biscuit in town. (allmovie.com)

The gang wants Spanky to come out and play football, but he has to make sure his baby sister is asleep first. (imdb)

A (rather shady?) private detective specializing in recovering highly insured items gets involved in recovering a stolen necklace. In the process also gets involved with a secretary at the insurance company. (imdb)

The girls moonlight as taxi dancers in order to earn some extra money. (imdb)

The gang tries to dissuade their teacher from geting married. (imdb)

Venerable character actor Harry Davenport (best remembered as Dr. Meade in Gone with the Wind) takes center stage in the "Higgins Family" entry Grandpa Goes to Town. The story gets under way when Joe and Lil Higgins (James and Lucille Gleason) invest their life savings in a frontier hotel. Upon arrival, the family discovers that the establishment is smack dab in the middle of a ghost town that hasn't seen a human face in years. (allmovie.com)

Keith Neville and Dan Casey, two small-time stage actors, are traveling by bus back two New York City, and have an overnight stay in a small town. They take a room in a local hotel and a murder is committed in an adjoining room to Keith. The latter hears the gunfire, goes to investigate and is there when the local police arrive. He and Casey are both held on suspicion of murder and jailed. While a local policeman is going through their luggage at the hotel, he discovers a letter of introduction. (imdb)

Ben proves to be the undoing when Billy opens a new deli. Ben and Billy do a variation of the famous "who's on first" skit. (imdb)

The girls are stewardesses on an experimental flight. (imdb)

The girls are going on a camping trip. (imdb)

The girls win a car in a raffle. (imdb)

Thelma, who came to Hollywood from Joplin to be a star, is ready to go home. She and her pal Patsy are packing up and packing it in. Then, through Patsy's deviousness, Thelma gets a call to come to the studio immediately to audition for a costume drama. Several mishaps later, Thelma leaves for the shoot, annoyed at her clumsy pal. Deaf to criticism and dismissal, Patsy follows, arriving in time to make a shambles of her best-friend's one chance at success. (imdb)

Thelma and Patsy get jobs demonstrating washing machines in a department store window. However, on their first day on the job, they accidentally get locked in the store overnight. (imdb)

After trying to break into show business, two mismatched girlfriends become nurses. One of their patients is a new mother who has hidden her pregnancy from her husband, the nightclub dancing partner she had secretly married. When she asks the two nurses to watch her baby while she goes to tell her husband, complications ensue.

Sixth episode in the Buster Brown 2-reel comedy series. Tige is pacing up and down, waiting for his master but cannot resist going in pursuit of a miniature dog in a parked limousine only to get very much the worse of the encounter. Meanwhile Buster is going riding with Mary Jane and Tige joins him on horseback but it transpire this is all just in his dreams.

18th episode in the Newlyweds and Their Baby 2-reel comedy series.

Juror Zasu accidentally swallows a piece of evidence which just happens to be a time bomb.

Instead of delivering some fancy dresses to a customer, the girls wear them to a party.

Thelma wins a screen test with a Hollywood studio, but trouble ensues on the train trip out there.

At a ritzy beauty salon, while a mud pack is on her face, a wealthy socialite invites Thelma and Patsy, two salon attendants, to a party, mistakenly thinking they are social acquaintances whom she wants to entertain a visiting count. Just before our working-class pair arrives at the party, the hostess is called away to see to an ill dog. Thelma tries to behave in a refined way, but Patsy, with a head full of practical jokes and a bra filled with trick gadgets, turns the party on its head.

Eddie MacIntyre is a press agent, talent scout and right-hand man to J.R.Russell, Producer/Director of Perfection Pictures, is planning a scheme in which he will "plant" his girl friend, actress Esther Harrington in the Ozark mountains and then "discover" her for the role of "Ruthybelle" in Perfection's upcoming production, "Thunder Over the Ozarks."

Patsy is coerced into faking a lost leg in order to win an insurance settlement after an automobile accident.

Buster Brown gets upset when Mary Janes invites him to a party and she gives all her attention to a new boy. Mary Jane is upset because Buster got upset. Tige sets out to get Buster back in Mary Jane's good graces. A piece of tobacco in a candy sack seems like a good idea.

In this Buster Brown short starring Arthur Trimble, Buster and Mary Jane, played by Doreen Turner, go for a ride in Buster's goat cart, and annoy some adults. In the second half, there's a seance run by some phony spiritualists who use the opportunity to steal their subject's jewelry.

Told to "hike" out to his company's West Coast headquarters, Charley does exactly that.

Thelma volunteers Patsy as a subject for her friend who is in dental school and needs somebody to practice on.

Buster and his dog Tige go on a dangerous destructive joy ride in a toy fire truck. Later, they find themselves in danger on a high-rise construction site.

Lovey and Dovey have a baby, named, of course, Snookums. Everything Snookums wants, Snookums gets. At his first birthday party, Lovey mistakenly believes Snookums has been kidnapped - and the chase is on.