John R. Cumpson Movies

Mack Sennett appears as a party guest in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

Jones' new house looks like all the others on the street. One night Jones enters the wrong house and finds himself in a precarious situation.

After overhearing Jones mocking her, the lady book agent slips a suggestive note into Jones's pocket. A jealous Mrs. Jones finds the note, and a huge...

Mack Sennett appears as a policeman in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

Schneider is trying to write a speech but he can't concentrate with all the noise around him. During the night, Schneider catches burglars in his...

Mr. Jones at the Ball is a 1908 American silent short comedy film, part of the once-popular Biograph series centered around the titular Jones and his...

A woman in love with an unsuccessful author tries to convince a publisher to accept his work.

A tramp tries to get himself arrested so he can sleep in the nice, warm jail, but the police keep ignoring him or arresting the wrong person.

Miguel casts out his daughter when she marries a poor man, causing his wife to leave him, too. After he is unable to find a reliable cook, he...

A father wants to marry his daughter to a rich man, but she's in love with someone else. She borrows a tramp's wooden leg, pretending that it's hers,...

Jones's mother-in-law prohibits his smoking and drinking, so he takes her out for the evening and gets her drunk.

A young wife instigates a duel between a dashing count, with whom she has been having an affair, and her elderly husband. In the duel, the husband is...

A pair of young ladies cause trouble at the cinema with their lavish hats.

A philandering husband arranges an ill-planned rendezvous at the same restaurant his wife and daughter are dining at.

An orphaned girl raised by a miner in the wilderness falls in love with a tenderfoot, even though the miner loves her as well.

Sight unseen, a man buys a bag that turns out to contain burglar tools. He can't get rid of the bag, even when he's robbed. The thieves assume he's a...

A short silent comedy in which Billy, who has lied to his wife so that he can go out on the town with a friend, gets caught by her.

Billy is out for a stroll when he spies a prepossessing-looking young woman. He follows and she enters the office of a spiritualist. Producing a tip,...

Alphonse and Gaston get into an argument over cocktails and agree to a duel.

Mr. Bumptious insists on wallpapering the parlor himself, in order to save money.