Charles Reisner Movies

Oscar, a tough guard at Newberry Prison, gets into an argument with Jerry, a smallish barber. He causes Jerry to be arrested as a fugitive, and gets...

The daughter of a soap manufacturer heads to the wild and woolly west to sell her daddy's product.

A mystery writer and his sweetheart are held hostage by a fugitive gangster, who hopes to enlist their help in devising the perfect crime.

A newspaper reporter investigates the near-fatal shooting of a medical scientist.

A philosophy professor accompanies his school's rowing team on a worldwide tour.

The Fortune Hunter is a lost 1927 silent film comedy directed by Charles Reisner and starring Syd Chaplin. It is based on the 1909 Broadway play The...

When her sister dies, a nightclub singer is left with her children. In order to raise the children properly, she leaves her singing career and takes...

A Navy veteran takes up boxing and winds up killing his own friend in the ring during a championship match.

A wealthy young man disguises himself as a gardener to be near the woman he secretly loves. He discovers that the butler is an enemy spy who plans to...

Unfinished pre-Code era film consisting of three sections with past performers from the stage and the vaudeville circuit, then-present-day performers...

An homage to NYC in the form of a short travelogue.

Oh! What a Nurse! is a 1926 American comedy film directed by Charles Reisner and written by Darryl F. Zanuck. The film stars Sydney Chaplin, Patsy...

A barber tries to find the winning lottery ticket he hid from his moralistic wife.

A girl gets trapped by racketeers and chaos happens at a gambling house.

Landladies Polly Smith and Marie Jones, who operate boardinghouses on the same side of the street, are afflicted with numerous petty envies and...

Begins with a child-cast parody of "The Kid." The Adams portion finds the guy chased about town because they are looking for some crook in a gray...

Two loony buddies get caught up in a Chinese revolution.

His Lying Heart is a silent comedy short.