Charles Reisner Movies

A newspaper reporter investigates the near-fatal shooting of a medical scientist.

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...

In this Warner Bros. short film, Alex visits his sister Belinda and her husband Fred. It looks like Alex is going to be around for a while, much to...

Wealthy Sam Hunter is approached by scheming Richard Whitehead about investing in oil. There appears to be no oil, and everyone is angry until oil is...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

Aubrey cons Amy into thinking he's a railroad bigwig. When he loses his job he takes one wearing a sandwich board. After he helps Joe sell his patent...

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

Unfinished pre-Code era film consisting of three sections with past performers from the stage and the vaudeville circuit, then-present-day performers...

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

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.

His Lying Heart is a silent comedy short.

Two loony buddies get caught up in a Chinese revolution.