Charles Reisner Movies

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

Landladies Polly Smith and Marie Jones, who operate boardinghouses on the same side of the street, are afflicted with numerous petty envies and...

Two loony buddies get caught up in a Chinese revolution.

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...

Oscar, a tough guard at Newberry Prison, gets into an argument with Jerry, a smallish barber. He causes Jerry to be arrested as a fugitive, and gets...

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.

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...

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

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...

Homesick for America, Jack and his pals get aboard a ship U. S.-bound disguised as entertainers. As entertainers they're flops, but evoke...

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...

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

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...

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

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

A barber tries to find the winning lottery ticket he hid from his moralistic wife.

A young girl and her two brothers are sent to a children's home after their older brother, who is the only one supporting them, winds up in jail.

His Lying Heart is a silent comedy short.

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

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...