Vernon Dent Movies

An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century through the 1920s.

A troubled youth is offered the opportunity to serve as a Senate page in Washington, DC.

Hank Mann heads Way Out West in this silent comedy.

Its suspected that a society matron, Mrs. Van Bustle, will marry the exotic Prince Shaam. To get the story, reporters Curly, Larry and Moe take jobs...

J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out...

As Harry has "cleaned up" on the football field and won the big game, Natalie's dad figured that he should do the same in the world of work before...

Exploitation film-maker Bud Pollard appears on screen to tell us of Bing Crosby's rise to fame, using scenes from four early Crosby shorts to...

A bride and groom are all set to get married, but they can't until the best man shows up. When the best man eventually does show up, he causes a few...

Returning to his hometown a fitness equipment salesman falls in love with the store keeper's daughter.

A dancing instructor goes to a married woman's home, to giver her lessons, while her husband is absent. He leaves and goes to a poker game. The...

The stooges are working as paperhangers in the home of Professor Panzer, a mad scientist looking for a brain to use in his experiments. The professor...

Drug store soda jerk Bert is a true-crime buff who revels in detective magazines. But he doesn't recognize the notorious gangster he waits on,...

Newcomer Torrent wins $500 from Olcott and $500 and a wild horse, by riding the horse, from Engle. Then loses the $1000 to Engle in a poker game....

On America's frontier, a St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals.

Biff Jones is a driver/salesman for the Good Humor ice-cream company. He hopes to marry his girl Margie, who works as a secretary for Stuart Nagel,...

Set in colonial times, the stooges are convicted criminals who are banished from England to the American colonies. When they arrive, they find that...

Billy Judkins is a naturally gloomy Gus. His life changes when he is transferred from working in his company's Hoboken office to their Hollywood...

An eccentric inventor has thought of a way that automobiles can run on radio waves, without gasoline. His plans put him in conflict with the owner of...

Harry finds out he is the missing heir to an estate, and is summoned to an old, spooky mansion to collect his inheritance.

A wounded cowboy catches rustlers who use a trick branding iron.