Leo McCarey Movies

A backwoods lawyer's race for the governor's office is thwarted by mainstream opponents who dig up dirt from his past.

Charley goes out for an evening on the town without his wife.

Anita and Marion realize that an abandoned baby they sneaked into an orphanage was kidnapped from a millionaire. For the reward, they proceed to...

Charley Chase is obsessed with a woman, however his attempt to meet her father is complicated by an asylum escapee.

Jimmy Jump gets rather wet.

Joe Collins arrives at Hanford College to begin his second year with $200 to pay his tuition, is enticed into a craps game, and loses all in this...

The Fight Pest is a silent movie short.

Jimmy Jump's boss asks him to meet his small niece and her dog and entertain them between trains. Jimmy buys a balloon or two and looks over the...

Charlie is the great divorce attorney, in demand by all women wishing to shed their husbands. While explaining to one woman how to obtain a divorce...

The son of a wealthy politician falls in with a notorious gangster planning to rob a night club.

A short comedy by Leo McCarey about a Jewish father who is worried about his daughter.

Charley, frustrated by his office job, quarrels with his wife, after which they decide to switch jobs. She goes to the office and Charley does the...

This offbeat comedy from future Hollywood screwball director McCarey is about a princess who must find a husband in 24 hours or forfeit her throne....

After a night of carousing, a rich oil tycoon awakes to find that he was married the night before. He calls in his lawyer to straighten things out.

A movie cameraman is on the lookout for new material but a rival plans to copy everything he films.

The situation is typically embarrassing and unlikely-but-possible for Charley, but it is at the same time such a simple idea -- Charley shows off by...

Charley Chase slapstick comedy short where he gets involved with a ventriloquist dummy among other wacky adventures.

Schultz raises prize chickens and roosters that are always getting into neighbor Max Davidson's garden and eating the seeds, leading to constant...

When Charlie borrows the policeman's uniform of his girl's father and captures a lunatic, his prospective father-in-law dons the uniform just in time...