Charles Reisner Movies

A woman watches her own funeral, then sets out with her lawyer to learn who was in the casket.

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

In this musical comedy, a crooked record producer uses his mob connections to force performers to do their stuff. The trouble really begins when the...

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...

Oh! What a Nurse! is a 1926 American comedy film directed by Charles Reisner and written by Darryl F. Zanuck. The film stars Sydney Chaplin, Patsy...

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

Two loony buddies get caught up in a Chinese revolution.

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

His Lying Heart is a silent comedy short.

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