6 Best Sam Lufkin Movies

By Vlad Zakh · August 24, 2026

Comedy feel good

Sam Lufkin was a familiar background presence in silent and early sound comedies, frequently in small roles for Harold Lloyd and Laurel and Hardy. The Finishing Touch wrecks a house with two incompetent builders, They Go Boom! destroys an apartment with a makeshift cold cure, Scram! mistakes two vagrants for gentlemen, and Going Bye-Bye! faces two friends with a criminal’s revenge. Speedy and Why Worry? round out the list.

Going Bye-Bye! (1934) 01

Going Bye-Bye! (1934)

TMDB ★ 7.1

Sam Lufkin features in this Laurel and Hardy short where two friends testify against a criminal who then escapes and seeks brutal revenge against them.

Directed by Charley Rogers · 0h 21m · Rated NR

Where to watch

Buy: Apple TV Store

Scram! (1932) 02

Scram! (1932)

TMDB ★ 7.0

Sam Lufkin is in this Laurel and Hardy short about two vagrants mistaken for wealthy gentlemen and taken in by a lonely woman's household.

Directed by Ray McCarey · 0h 20m · Rated NR

Where to watch

Rent: Amazon Video · Buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store

They Go Boom! (1929) 03

They Go Boom! (1929)

TMDB ★ 6.9

Sam Lufkin features in this Laurel and Hardy short where two roommates' attempt to cure a bad cold with a makeshift steam remedy destroys their apartment.

Directed by James Parrott · 0h 20m · Rated NR

Where to watch

Rent or buy: Amazon Video

The Finishing Touch (1928) 04

The Finishing Touch (1928)

TMDB ★ 7.0

Sam Lufkin appears in this Laurel and Hardy short about two incompetent construction workers who wreak havoc while trying to complete a house before a strict deadline.

Directed by Clyde Bruckman · 0h 21m

Where to watch

Rent or buy: Amazon Video

Speedy (1928) 05

Speedy (1928)

TMDB ★ 7.4

Sam Lufkin appears in this Harold Lloyd silent about a baseball-obsessed young man who races to save his future father-in-law's horse-drawn trolley from a corrupt buyout.

Directed by Ted Wilde · 1h 26m · Rated NR

Where to watch

Stream: fuboTV, HBO Max Amazon Channel, Philo, Criterion Channel, Fandor Amazon Channel, HBO Max · Rent or buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home

Why Worry? (1923) 06

Why Worry? (1923)

TMDB ★ 7.0

Sam Lufkin is in this Harold Lloyd comedy about a wealthy hypochondriac who travels to a tropical island in the middle of a revolution, oblivious to the chaos around him.

Directed by Sam Taylor & Fred C. Newmeyer · 1h 03m · Rated NR

Where to watch

Stream: Criterion Channel, Artiflix · Rent or buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Fandango At Home

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Vlad Zakh

Vlad Zakh

Founder, Movieix

Founder of Movieix. He started the site because most recommendation pages felt like noise. Here, lists are sorted by who's in the film, where it's from and what mood you're in tonight.