Reggie Hemingway is a rich broker who continually bullies his valet. World War I breaks out and the valet enlists immediately. Reggie goes to the army later and arrives at the training camp to find that his valet is now a tough sergeant in charge of the recruits.
A well-dressed hobo gets a job as "utility man" with a theater company, and winds up starring in the show.
This is a real corker. It starts off with a terrific routine with an erratic elevator. Lane's character, Johnny Jones, upon sight falls in love with Mary Craig (played by Kathryn McGuire who appears in a number of Lane comedies). The man who hopes to marry her is Henry Sharp played by Wallace Lupino; the title card introducing this character says" Henry Sharp – so mean he would steal a dead fly from a blind spider." Johnny agrees to do his father a favor by posing as his little boy of about 10 years old. The father had told the wealthy widow he hopes to marry that he was only 30 years old. Because of Lane's small stature this is more believable than most comedy routines that have an adult playing a child.
The short starts with a duel in the Old South wherein a man inadvertently saves one of the duelist's lives for which he is given a watch. Years pass and we next see the grandson, impoverished and heading to the big city for work (taking the watch with him). His ma gives him a pigeon in case he wants to send a message back home. The watch is the key to getting a fortune and a vamp and her cohort want it.
A young man faces perilous adventures when he is evicted from his apartment.
A wandering swordsman in the reign of Louis XIII stumbles into a nest of conspirators against the King when his horse throws him and he is forced to seek refuge in a nearby inn. Without money or rank, he is treated ignominiously by patron and customers, but when a captured messenger from the King arrives, accompanied by a lovely lady, he swings into action to save the day. Or try to...
At a toy hospital, an apprentice deals with a trouble-making boy and his clueless mother. After they leave, he is forced to work late, falls asleep and dreams of a castle where the toys in the shop come to life.
A woman commits her hard-drinking husband to a sanitarium that would drive any man to drink.
The Dude and his younger brother, The Rival are at it once again.
In an attempt to dodge a cop, Claude hides in a museum, but he gets locked in after closing time and tangles with a pair of burglars.
Lupino Lane as part of the Mounties catching crooks.
Battling Sisters (1929) is a bizarre, futuristic gender-bending semi-spoof of ‘The Big Parade, with men and women’s roles reversed.Offering the spectacle of Wallace Lupino, in drag, vamping the helpless house husband Lane!
Lupino Lane, an apprentice blacksmith, must fight an imported boxing champion, lest the vile squire call in the mortgage and repossess the village smithy.
Lupino and his wife Helen are honeymooning in Morocco and the local Caliph wants to add Helen to his harem. Lupino saves her, loses her again and saves her again.
