Jack Ackroyd Movies

The Isle of Lost Ships is a 1929 talking film released in an alternative silent version with a Vitaphone track of effects and music. It was produced...

Stan Laurel as a harness racing jockey who must win a big race.

World War I ace Dick Courtney derides the leadership of his superior officer, but he soon is promoted to squadron commander and learns harsh lessons...

Stan plays a waiter at a crappy restaurant and frankly such fare was better done by Chaplin and others. However, in two cute scenes, the film shines....

Collars and Cuffs is a 1923 silent comedy film starring Stan Laurel.

The beautiful and cultured Lady Diana Whitney marries Captain Maxwell of the British Army. When he is transferred to the Sahara, life at his remote...

The film stars actor Rod La Rocque as Jerry Cleggert, a good-natured descendant of an infamous clan of pirates who resides aboard the rickety ship...

Paul Parrott plays an obsessive-compulsive bill poster in this thoroughly average Hal Roach comedy from 1923. Hired to help publicize a new Gloria...

This Hal Roach comedy short I found on the "American Slapstick" DVD collection of rare silent comedies starts bizarre and has an anything...

A 1924 silent comedy.

After being discharged from the 372nd infantry, on account of a bean shortage, smithy seeks employment. He finds a job on a construction site, where...

Wide Open Spaces is a 1924 Western silent film starring Stan Laurel.

Judge Ross, on the Federal Bench, rules in favor of a large company in litigation before him, unaware that a smaller company in which he owns...

The adventures of Old Bill and his friends Bert and Alf in the trenches of the first World War.

Drama set in Alaska

A German spy matches wits with-and pitches woo to- an American secret agent

A flirtatious hotel orchestra leader provokes conflict.

Julius loses his wife to Rudy because he's too busy going on hunting trips. But when she arranges to meet with a fortune teller, Julius hatches a...

Will Rogers plays a lazy man who is chosen by a group of men to run for Congress.

A man tries to win over the daughter of his boss.