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Film di Charley Chase
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Tutti i film, le interpretazioni e le collaborazioni di Charley Chase. In questa pagina trovi l'archivio completo dei titoli disponibili su Cinema Oggi che vedono la partecipazione di Charley Chase, corredati da trame, trailer ufficiali e dettagli sul cast tecnico.
4 Clowns
Robert Youngson once again compiles scenes from the golden age of comedy's silent film era. Laurel and Hardy are shown battling a gum machine, and Hardy is a debaucherous Romeo whose amorous plans are thwarted by Rex, the Wonder Horse. Charley Chase is hampered by hiccups and a female professor, and he fleeces a drunken Oliver Hardy with a mannequin in a nightclub. The third part finds bachelor Buster Keaton desperately trying to get married by 7:00 PM in order to collect a $7-million-dollar inheritance. Keaton is pursued by money-hungry prospects in one of the best chase scenes ever filmed. Narration is provided by Jay Jackson.
Voto medio degli utenti: 7.2/10
The Further Perils of Laurel and Hardy
La pellicola propone varie comiche girate da Stan Laurel e Oliver Hardy assieme ad altri attori nel periodo di massimo successo. Il materiale è montato in ordine cronologico e una voce fuoricampo (quella di Youngson) racconta come i due comici si siano conosciuti e abbiano formato il duo che oggi tutti conosciamo dal lontano 1918 al 1929.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.0/10
When Comedy Was King
A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Fatty Arbuckle, Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Charley Chase, and Laurel and Hardy.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.2/10
His Bridal Fright
Charley writes to girls all over the world in order to get foreign postage stamps for his collection--but winds up with a passel of girls who think he's their fiance.
South of the Boudoir
Charley, over his wife's objections, has invited his boss over for dinner. Mrs. Chase walks out, and Charley hires a waitress to pose as his wife. Meanwhile, the boss picks up Mrs. Chase and brings her as his dinner guest.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.0/10
The Awful Goof
A girl keeps meeting Charley the wrong moments, including losing her dress in his car, and later he finds himself in her apartment. Her jealous boxer-husband is obsessed with killing Charley after seeing them together again and again.
Teacher's Pest
Charley arrives in a backward mountain town to be the new schoolteacher and receives a hostile welcome.
Skinny the Moocher
Deep in debt, Charley must marry a wealthy society girl, and attends an afternoon party to announce the engagement. Trouble is, he's menaced by two thuggish creditors and must take his kleptomaniac butler along, passing him off as an uncle.
Rattling Romeo
Charley buys a wreck of an automobile that's been made to appear new by a disreputable used car dealer, but he soon realizes it's literally falling apart. He stops payment, and then must dodge repossesors as well.
The Chump Takes a Bump
At a nightclub, Charley fails to recognize his newly blonde wife.
The Sap Takes a Wrap
Charley gives his girlfriend a mink coat he was supposed to be guarding for three showgirls; when the ladies want their coat back, Charley goes to great lengths to recover it.
Pie a la Maid
Charley falls for a waitress who mistakes him for a gangster.
A Nag in the Bag
Two guys who own a restaurant get word of a sure thing at the races and bet all their money on that horse; unfortunately, they bet on the wrong horse.
The Nightshirt Bandit
A criminology professor sets out to find the "sleepwalking bandit", but when he finally catches up with the somnambulistic thief, it's not quite who he thought it would be.
Many Sappy Returns
Charley mistakes a lunatic as the father of the girl he's interested in.
Voto medio degli utenti: 4.8/10
The Mind Needer
A Charley Chase short, produced at Columbia. Charley is alarmingly forgetful, and this is his wedding anniversary. Will he give his wife a present and avoid her wrath?
Voto medio degli utenti: 4.0/10
Time Out for Trouble
Charley Chase is engaged to be married and while in a department store, shopping for his fiancée, saves a woman from being hit on the head by a heavy box, but his fiancée only sees a newspaper-published picture of Charley holding the girl in his lap. His angry fiancée breaks off their engagement.
Voto medio degli utenti: 2.7/10
Man Bites Lovebug
To test his wife, Charley's friend puts him up to making a play for her, but she's on to it and pretends she's fallen for him, infuriating the friend. Charley must stay overnight, and unexpected complications put him in the wife's bedroom.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.0/10
The Big Squirt
Soda jerk reads mystery stories, fancies himself a master detective.
Voto medio degli utenti: 3.0/10
Calling All Doctors
Charley is a hypochondriac who is driving his family, his friends and his doctor crazy.
The Wrong Miss Wright
Charley tries to get out of an arranged marriage so he can marry another girl. What he doesn't realize is that they are one and same girl.
From Bad to Worse
Charley's honeymoon is upset by a woman and her jealous husband.
The Grand Hooter
Charley's wife accuses him of preferring his Hoot Owl Lodge over her.
Hollywood Party
Elissa Landi and Charley Chase host an East Asian themed garden tea party in Hollywood. After introducing a few Hollywood luminaries who are attending the party, they present a number of musical and/or dance performances to entertain the crowd. This set of performances also includes ethnic Chinese actress Anna May Wong modeling some fashions she brought back from her first ever trip to China. Through it all, one of the guests, already inebriated, is having a few problems mixing and serving the cocktails he wants.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.3/10
Kelly the Second
A feisty Irish woman turns a truck driver into a championship boxer.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.0/10
On the Wrong Trek
Charlie tells his co-workers about his event-filled vacation to California, including his run in with two vagabond hitchhikers.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.8/10
Vamp Till Ready
Charley's somewhat prudish wife pretends to be a party girl.
Neighborhood House
Charley, his wife Rosina and their daughter Darla attend "Bank night" at their local movie theater, more eager to win the cash prize than see the picture. When little Darla is selected to choose the winning ticket, she draws her father's number. The crowd reacts angrily, thinking that the drawing is a fraud, forcing the child to choose another number. This one turns out to be her own ticket, after which a third drawing yields her mother's ticket. While pandemonium erupts in the audience, some gangsters arrive and raid the theater. A chase follows, resulting in the eventual capture of the crooks.
The Count Takes the Count
Charley Chase' insurance company has a million dollar policy on Andrea Leeds' wedding coming off. When Andrea runs away and cons Charley into thinking she's a detective in pursuit of herself, there's no shortage of great laughs.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.0/10
Voto medio degli utenti: 4.0/10
Life Hesitates at 40
Charley finds himself having strange spells during which everything around him seems to stop.
Manhattan Monkey Business
When Charley can't pay his bill at a restaurant, he is forced to become a waiter.
Nurse to You!
Cautious, frugal Charley is told by his insurance doctor that he has six months to live, and goes on to live life to the fullest.
The Four Star Boarder
In an effort to appease his wife's wealthy aunt (Grace Goodall), newly-wed Charley must masquerade as a boarder in his own home while his wife (Constance Bergen) pretends to be married to an old beau (T. Roy Barnes).
Southern Exposure
Connie Chase receives a letter from Chaseville in Chase County, Kentucky, informing her that her lawyer husband, Jimmie, is a descendant of the Blue Grass State Chases. Assuming that they are now aristocratic heirs, they take a trip to visit their wealthy relations. They soon discover that Chaseville is a back-country hick town, and that their kin are dirt-poor illiterates who ambulate in bare feet. Nevertheless, Pappy (Charley Chase) could use Jimmie to defend him in a breach of promise lawsuit. Miss Lavinia Watkins sued him for not tying the knot, after pledging to marry her. The case is resolved as the courtroom becomes a dance floor, and everyone celebrates.
Voto medio degli utenti: 1.0/10
Poker at Eight
Charley Chase movie where Charley wants to go out to have a poker night with the boys but much to his chagrin his wife won't let him.
Okay Toots!
Charley Chase, a stockbroker, gets rich by mistake, has parking trouble, then at home finds his wife Toots seeing a psychic who apparently causes husband and wife to switch bodies!
The Chases of Pimple Street
In order to get out of his boss's doghouse, Charley pairs his troublesome sister-in-law with an important client and inevitable complications result.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.0/10
Fate's Fathead
Accidental meetings and misconceptions lead a blissfully happy couple to fight and squabble.
You Said a Hatful!
When he learns the secret news that it will be sold today at 4pm in Kansas City, international banker J.P. Anderson sets in motion a plan to purchase the Tippycanoe Tuckahoe & Tehachapi Railroad.
Something Simple
Taken to a hospital, after suffering a dizzy spell, Charley is told by a 'nut', posing as a doctor, that he suffers from 'Tetra-Ethyl", and the only remedy is to sit down, relax, clear the mind and recite a nursery rhyme. The fake doctor gives Charley a package to deliver to Mr. Henderson, the "Supreme Crown of the Knights of the Brown Derby." At the hotel, hosting a convention of "Brown Derbies," Charley suffers a dizzy spell and the only place he can find to sit down is in Mr. Henderson's lap, where he recites "Mary Had a Little Lamb." Mr. Henderson, it is revealed, also suffers from "Tetra-Ethyl." Seized by an attack, Henderson sits down and tries to recite "Who Killed Cock Robin," but forgets the lines, which Charley and Henderson's daughter, Betty, sing in a song together. That, coming at the end of the second reel,is all it takes for Charley and Betty to decide to get married.
Voto medio degli utenti: 4.0/10
Another Wild Idea
Betty's father has an invention that looks like a fancy camera; it emits an ultra-lavender ray that temporarily rids the ray's target of inhibitions. To test it, Betty's father zaps Charley hoping his newly-aberrant behavior will cause Betty to end her affections for the milquetoast. Dad's plan backfires: the invention works perfectly, Charley gets a backbone, and Betty loves her new forceful man. However, Charley's courage and lack of a superego get him in trouble with the law. He goes on trial for assaulting a bullying police officer. Is Charley going up the river leaving Betty high and dry?
Voto medio degli utenti: 3.3/10
I'll Take Vanilla
Ice-cream vendor Charley gets mixed up with a cute girl and her snotty nephew.
Four Parts
Charley is one of four identical brothers, which drives his girlfriend nuts.
The Cracked Ice Man
Charley finds that he got more than he bargained for when he takes a job as a kindergarten teacher.
I figli del deserto
Per partecipare alla riunione annuale dell'associazione (massonica) "Sons of the Desert" di cui sono soci, i due amiconi fingono una malattia di Hardy che esige un soggiorno di cura a Honolulu, ma le loro mogli scoprono l'inganno. Per la compattezza narrativa e il sottile umorismo delle situazioni e dei personaggi che sostituisce la ricchezza delle gag comiche, è considerato il migliore dei lungometraggi della coppia su un tema tipico del loro cinema, l'evasione dal carcere più o meno dorato del matrimonio. Ebbe un successo così esteso che contribuì alla nascita di numerosi club di ammiratori, intitolati appunto "Sons of the Desert".
Voto medio degli utenti: 7.1/10
Sherman Said It
Although the war is over, Charley still can't seem to find his way out of France.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.0/10
Arabian Tights
Charley and his buddies are captured and imprisoned by an Arabian sultan.
His Silent Racket
James Finlayson manages to con Charley into becoming his partner in a failing dry cleaning shop that has been targeted by gangsters running a protection racket.
Voto medio degli utenti: 10.0/10
Nature in the Wrong
Charley, hoping to find cultured people in his ancestry in order to be suitable to Muriel's family, is tricked by his rival Ronnie into believing himself a descendant of Tarzan. Conked on the head, Charley suddenly believes he IS Tarzan.
Fallen Arches
Told to "hike" out to his company's West Coast headquarters, Charley does exactly that.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.5/10
Now We'll Tell One
Charley unwittingly puts on a belt that has the power to change the wearer's personality.
Girl Grief
Although terrified of girls, Charley must take a job teaching at a girls school.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.0/10
Young Ironsides
Harry is hired by a rich family to stop their daughter from entering a beauty contest.
First in War
Charley writes the national anthem for the country of Nicarania and winds up getting mixed up in a revolution there.
In Walked Charley
Charley, a travel agent, finds himself in a situation where he has to humor an apparent lunatic.
The Nickel Nurser
Charley is an efficiency expert trying to teach a millionaire's daughter the value of money.
Voto medio degli utenti: 1.0/10
The Tabasco Kid
A timid accountant for a California cattle ranch and a lookalike dashing bandit become rivals for the beautiful daughter of a wealthy rancher.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.5/10
What a Bozo!
A bandleader ignores a pretty dancer who fancies him in order to chase after a beautiful, snooty high-society dame.
Voto medio degli utenti: 3.5/10
Skip the Maloo!
When a Duke comes to town, a woman wants to fix him up with her pretty daughter. Her father objects and tries to prevent a romance, with comic results.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.0/10
The Panic Is On
Charley's in love with the daughter of a financier who wants her to insist that Chas have a pile of cash before she marries him. But, the Depression is everywhere: Charley's behind on his rent and nearly everyone he meets is down on their luck. After reading a "how to" book on the power of a forceful will, Charley applies the lessons with mixed results, but he does land a job that includes delivering a shake-down letter to his girlfriend's father. Is the naïve Charley going to end up in jail?
Voto medio degli utenti: 2.0/10
One of the Smiths
Charley, representing a manufacturer of musical instruments, is sent to investigate why certain mail orders have not been settled. Charley, carrying multiple bulky instruments, boards a train and gives the conductor, the porter, and the passengers a terrible night as he tries to settle into his upper berth. Arriving at his rural destination of Beaver Dam, Charley masquerades as a hillbilly to track down the missing instruments. At the barn dance, he sings "Handsome Jim."
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.0/10
Rough Seas
On his way home following World War I, Charley smuggles his French sweetheart aboard ship and gets into all kinds of trouble.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.0/10
La señorita de Chicago
This movie is the Spanish language version of THE PIP FROM PITTSBURG
The Pip from Pittsburg
Charley agrees to go on a blind date to help out his roommate. But because his last such date turned out badly, he goes all out trying to make himself look bad. He refuses to shave, wears his friend's old suit and even eats garlic. Unfortunately for him, however, his date turns out to be the lovely Thelma Todd.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.3/10
El alma de la fiesta
An expanded, Spanish-language version of the two-reel comedy Thundering Tenors (1931).
Thundering Tenors
Charley is invited to a high class party, where he feels ill at ease and has no idea how to act, yet he wants to impress his young lady.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.0/10
High C's
The comic and musical adventures of Charley Chase as he fights in the great war.
Voto medio degli utenti: 2.8/10
Una cana al aire
This here is the four-reel Spanish version of Charley Chase's Looser Than Loose.
Looser Than Loose
Charley is about to get engaged to Thelma when his boss foists some clients upon him to entertain.
Voto medio degli utenti: 4.0/10
Garde la bombe
Garde la bombe is the French speaking version of a Charley Chase comedy short.
El príncipe del dólar
El príncipe del dólar is an American comedy short with all speaking Spanish
Chercheuses d'or
Chercheuses d'or is a American comedy short with all speaking French
Dollar Dizzy
Charley and Thelma are millionaires, each trying to elude suitors who are trying to marry them for their money. Charlie gets word that a rich uncle has died, leaving him millions. Attorneys advise him to repair to a resort and avoid gold diggers. Once there, word spreads among the single women, and several try to ensnare him. At first he's gullible, then he cottons on, so when Thelma, a wealthy young woman, mistakes him for a fortune hunter, he dismisses her as well. A manager's error puts Charlie and Thelma in the same suite, and both think the other is prospecting. A dressing gown, radio, bare feet, pistol, keyhole, fountain pen, bedcovers, and a suspicious hotel detective join the mix-up. But wait, was the inheritance a mistake?
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.0/10
Locuras de amor
Locuras de amor is a comedy short from Charley Chase with all speaking Spanish
Girl Shock
Charley suffers a hysterical reaction whenever a woman touches him; a psychiatrist attempts to help him overcome his panicked reflex.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.0/10
Fast Work
Charley Chase is obsessed with a woman, however his attempt to meet her father is complicated by an asylum escapee.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.5/10
Fifty Million Husbands
An estranged couple visit their old apartment, which is now occupied by Charley and his wife. Charley's wife, however, misunderstands the purpose of their visit.
Voto medio degli utenti: 4.2/10
Le joueur de golf
With all speaking French, Chase joins a golf club to win its president's daughter. The game descends into chaos when the other players conspire against him and he ends driving across the course.
All Teed Up
Thelma invites Charley to play golf at her father's exclusive country club.
Voto medio degli utenti: 4.2/10
Whispering Whoopee
Charlie hires three "party girls" to help him land a business deal.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.9/10
The Real McCoy
Charley poses as a hillbilly in his pursuit of a country girl.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.5/10
Great Gobs!
Charley and Edgar on shore leave in Mexico, fight for the affection of a pretty senorita.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.0/10
Crazy Feet
Charley intervenes in a fight between Eddie and Thelma inside her small car. Cop Kennedy misinterprets things, and Charley hides in the theatre Thelma is rehearsing in. Charley replaces Eddie as Thelma's partner in an artistic dance act, and makes a fiasco of it.
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.5/10
Snappy Sneezer
Charley falls in love with Mary, but his attack of hay fever alienates her father.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.5/10
Modern Love
In order to keep her job, a young dress designer must keep her recent marriage a secret from her boss. An important client arrives from Paris and her boss decides to hold a dinner party for the man at the girl's house. When her husband finds out that the client wants to take her back to Paris so she can "study," he comes up with a plan to stop it, and it begins with his being the "server" at the dinner party.
Movie Night
A family goes on its weekly outing to the movies. Complications ensue...
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.0/10
Ruby Lips
Charley is caught in a compromising situation involving "ruby lips" finding himself in a series of increasingly awkward social misunderstandings. Charley must frantically try to clear his name, only to make things worse!
Limousine Love
On the way to his wedding the bride groom finds a nude, married woman in his car
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.7/10
The Family Group
Charley tries to get a photograph taken with his wife and child.
All for Nothing
Charley brings an actor friend home to dinner without telling his wife beforehand, and she protests. The two instead head to a theater. Charley's wife later follows to apologize and unbeknownst to her and the friend, Charley uses costumes from the theater to pretend to be other people.
Never the Dames Shall Meet
Chase makes tries to escape from a compromising situation with a dame he took to be his wife's sister.
The Way of All Pants
A man delivering a pair of trousers loses his own pants, setting off a chaotic sequence of events.
Voto medio degli utenti: 6.2/10
Now I'll Tell One
This film was presumed lost for a long time, until the second reel of this movie showed up again in the '90s. So half of the movie can be seen. It's a fast paced slapstick comedy with also a good comical story about a man (Charley Chase) who is being prosecuted for shooting his wife (Edna Marion).
Voto medio degli utenti: 5.8/10
The Lighter That Failed
For his birthday, Charley gets a cigarette lighter, but it won't light. He works on it with ill-suited tools amidst his family all giving advice. Finally, he unwisely fuels it with gasoline, which gets it lit, but soon, so is his house.
The Sting of Stings
Charley and Edna are feeling very pleased with themselves and their new car. They decide to share their good fortune and offer to take six underprivileged children out for a fun day at the carnival. Unfortunately, the children come from Juvenile Hall, and each one is more trouble than the last.
What Women Did for Me
A girl-shy professor runs into trouble at a ladies’ seminary.
Us
Short comedy about airplanes.