Charles Reisner Movies

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

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

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...

Wealthy Sam Hunter is approached by scheming Richard Whitehead about investing in oil. There appears to be no oil, and everyone is angry until oil is...

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.

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...

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

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...

The policy-racket reaches it lean, bony fingers into the ivy-towers of a large university and the underworld trying to “beat the...

Reformed jewel-thief Sophie Lang, tired of being questioned by the New York City police every time a jewel disappears, decides to head for California...

Culture shock bombards a woman and her family when they leave their hick town to help her sister out in her big-city beauty parlor.

Arthur Wells, an impoverished poet, impersonates a big-game hunter in an attempt to locate the missing link. However, the poet has an aversion to...

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

When a shipping clerk is recruited by his employer to help his golf game, his boss insists he conceal his humble identity at the country club.

A former jockey teaches a newcomer the dirty tricks of the track.

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...

His Lying Heart is a silent comedy short.

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