Hampton Del Ruth Movies

A group of passengers are trapped in a runaway Pullman car.

A doctor and an undertaker form a partnership and get more business through the alliance, but one or the other loses his wife in the business rush.

The whimsical adventures of the impetuous Sheriff Nell (Polly Moran), who keeps Triggerville in line with an iron fist. But her heart is set on Jack,...

Naughty is a 1927 silent film comedy directed by Hampton Del Ruth and starring Pauline Garon and John Harron. It was produced by Chadwick Pictures.

“ Polly Moran, known as Becky O'Brien in this picture, conducts a pawn shop with Ben Turpin and Charles Lynn as her appraisers and clerks. Ben...

Bonnie and Cliff meet cute when she gives him a lift after his car has broken down. Turns out she’s getting ready to open a beauty parlor and...

Midnight Daddies is a black-and-white comedy short.

An entomologist and his wife head out into the countryside for his studies and happen upon a group of free-spirited young dancers.

Chaos reigns in Louise Fazenda's kitchen as the cat stalks and consumes the bird in the cuckoo clock and the baby paints its face with jam. In her...

A young woman mistakenly believes she has killed a man in a struggle to repel his unwanted advances.

A surrealistic stew of airplanes, tornadoes, trick mirrors, and underwater car repair. Footage was recycled for the studios’ 1920 release Hold...

Ambassador Alfalfa Doolittle returns to his small town, fielding questions about Washington politics and his adventures. He regales them with stories...

There is harmony in The Café until it is accidentally discovered that lovely Mary has had a fortune left her, whereupon Beery, the proprietor,...

early comedy short by Triangle Film Corporation

Wealthy Andy marries a young girl, who has an ulterior motive.

War veteran returns home to find his sweetheart totally upset. Her father will lose his sight unless she can get funds for an expensive procedure. He...

A 1917 short film directed by Hampton Del Ruth & Fred Hibbard.

At the start of his career Harry Depp appeared often in short comedies, and was employed by Mack Sennett’s Keystone Company in 1916-17. Very...

Kipling had a prevision of this bird, when he wrote that famous line "HE'S A INDIA-RUBBER IDOT ON A SPREE!" Silent comedy short starring Clyde Cook.