John R. Cumpson Movies

A philandering husband arranges an ill-planned rendezvous at the same restaurant his wife and daughter are dining at.

A new bride has made a batch of biscuits. Her husband pretends to like them, so she delivers the rest to his office. But one bite of these biscuits...

A royal woman rejects her arranged marriage. The cardinal hatches a plan: the suitor will shave and change clothes. He arranges with 4 clowns to...

A woman in love with an unsuccessful author tries to convince a publisher to accept his work.

Sisters guarding their house from a burglar set upon stealing their daddy's money.

A young courtier gambles in a tavern and wins a coat from the leader of a gang. In the pocket he finds details of a plan to kidnap the Queen. He...

Miguel casts out his daughter when she marries a poor man, causing his wife to leave him, too. After he is unable to find a reliable cook, he...

Mr. Bumptious insists on wallpapering the parlor himself, in order to save money.

A short silent comedy in which Billy, who has lied to his wife so that he can go out on the town with a friend, gets caught by her.

A young wife instigates a duel between a dashing count, with whom she has been having an affair, and her elderly husband. In the duel, the husband is...

Mr. Jones jumps to the wrong conclusions when he sees a bouquet of flowers and a man's hat in the parlor.

A shoe-factory worker puts a note in a shoe box offering to marry the lucky buyer. As a result, she is dismissed from her job, but her employer finds...

Billy is out for a stroll when he spies a prepossessing-looking young woman. He follows and she enters the office of a spiritualist. Producing a tip,...

A father wants to marry his daughter to a rich man, but she's in love with someone else. She borrows a tramp's wooden leg, pretending that it's hers,...

Schneider is trying to write a speech but he can't concentrate with all the noise around him. During the night, Schneider catches burglars in his...

Sight unseen, a man buys a bag that turns out to contain burglar tools. He can't get rid of the bag, even when he's robbed. The thieves assume he's a...