Jack Duffy

In the first entry of this series, the show open with a troupe of dancing chorus girls getting a salute from crossed-eyed Ben Turpin. Then the master of ceremonies, Fredric March, brings on the various acts, starting with a pre-teen Mitzi Green), dressed as an adult and singing "Was That the Human Thing to Do?" , followed by Ginger Rogers and Jack Oakie singing-and-dancing to "The Girl Who Used to be You. (imdb)

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, 'counter jumper' was the term used in both Britain and the U.S.A. to describe the lowest dogsbody clerk in a general store or emporium. Here, Semon is employed in that capacity in an Old West general store that caters for desperate characters. As usual for Semon, most of the gag set-ups are deeply contrived and implausible. We get here not one but two separate sequences in which randomly splattered stains just happen to resemble a human face. (imdb)

A boxer offers $50 to anyone who can stay in the ring with him for an entire minute. Larry, through a series of mix-ups--including hitting the boxer in the face with a tomato--winds up in the ring with him but, with the aid of some strategically placed horseshoes, manages to knock the boxer out. When he comes to and finds out what happened, the outraged boxer sets out after Larry. (imdb)

Young lovers pursued by her father -- and then a series of sight gags based on the mayhem of their auto ride. (imdb)

Larry in school and always gets in trouble until he falls asleep and dreams of when he's all grown up.

Larry might be a hick causing a lot of trouble at the farm, but he shows he can outsmart those crooked city folks!

Big Ben has the largest store in the town of New Ralgia. His chief clerk is in love with the post mistress. The three of them get involved in a series of mishaps with their customers and with the town ladies' man, whose advances conceal a more sinister purpose. (imdb)

The Keystone Hotel hosts a very prestigeous beauty contest. When the cross-eyed judge presents the first prize to an elderly cleaning woman, angry members of the audience respond by hurling custard pies. The Keystone Kops are summoned, and arrive just in time to get plastered with pastry. (imdb)

Various Hollywood performers put on a pirate-themed variety show on Catalina Island, with a number of amiable stars in the audience. (imdb)

Polo player Brian stops in a Kansas town and find a girl and her aunt needing money to keep their ranch. He also finds his new real estate partner is the crook trying to do the women out of their ranch. (imdb)

A young couple making plans to elope are overheard by a jewel thief, who sees a chance to turn the situation to his advantage. (imdb)

LOOSE CHANGE - starring Jack Duffy and Neal Burns, with Lorriane Eddy, Winnie Law, and Glen Cavender. A young woman decides to vamp her friend's husbands visiting Scottish uncle, but her scheme to trick him into marrying him backfires when her own husband catches on.

At the request of the Mexican government, a federal agent and a lady reporter team up to catch a gang that has been smuggling gold from Mexico to the U.S. and then selling it to the U.S. government. (imdb)

On a snowy winter day, old Hark is feeding the birds as he does every winter day when he is visited by Death, who wants to take him away. Death tells him it's his time, but Hark wants to stay until the spring so that the birds can both survive through the winter and know not to return next year since they will know he is no longer there. (imdb)

A very rich old man promises to leave his extended family his fortune if they all move in together and get along for one year.

Two competitive Scotsmen are neighbours. Trouble starts when a tax inspector announces his imminent arrival, and the Scotsmen have to stash their expensive furniture. As soon as one succeeds in hiding every last stick, the other figures out where to put his. In his neighbour's now empty house!

Process server Neal Burns raids a hospital to bring a reluctant doctor to trial.

Walter has invented an automatic remote-control for his jalopy. When a potential buyer comes to look it over, Walter proudly shows how he cam the car stop and go, turn corners and steer correctly. His spiteful rival, Bill, switches the plug and the car runs out of control. Walter and his sweetheart, Mary, plan to elope but they discuss their plans in front of an open microphone at the broadcast station, and Mary's father hears it and sets out to stop their elopement.

The city editor refuses to give Anne a reporter's job. Two photographers have failed to get a picture of Senator Hangnail, and Anne is promised a job if she succeeds. She gets into the senator's house and is suspected of being a mafia black-hand terrorist. Escaping that, she manages to snap several pictures but, when they are developed, she has photographed everything by the senator's face.

A devilish courtship.

Desperate to find a place to live, newlyweds Jack and his wife accept menial jobs in a hotel. Meanwhile, two other couples are squabbling over who gets to occupy the last remaining room.

The freshmen and sophmores concentrate on higher things, like the motorboat race. So fierce is their rivalry that dean Jack Duffy decrees that the winner of the race and his classmates get to go to the dance, while the losers are barred. To prevent Carlyle Moore Jr. From winning, the sophmores force him to torment beat cop Vernon Dent and get thrown in jail. Will their perfidy prevail, and 30-year-old student Vera Steadman have to dance with a sophmore?

Jean gets herself expelled from school so she can travel with her grandfather. Grandfather decides he'd rather have a new grandson, so he puts an ad in the paper. Jean decides to apply for the role and confusion ensues.

A 1925 comedy featuring Walter Hiers and Jack Duffy. A theater company does a unique presentation of the Shakespeare classic after consuming gasoline in their drinks.

A cross-dressing farce, adapted from "Madame Lucy" by Jean Arlette, in which to help a friend in a lawsuit, Jack Mitchell disguises himself as the mysterious "Madame Brown," a missing witness important to the case of the plaintiff. He attracts the romantic attention of two old roués and one hot Broadway showgirl.

Jack Duffy is terrified of horses, so when Gayle Lloyd wants to lift the mortgage by running her horse in the harness race that Saturday, he's chosen to drive the rig. The rest of the movie is about the farcical mishaps on the way to his inevitable victory..

Comedy starring Jack Duffy and Anne Cornwall, featured in James Roots’ 100 Essential Film Comedies.