By Vlad Zakh · August 12, 2026
Slim Summerville was a pioneering silent comedy star of the Keystone Kops era who moved into a long career of dependable character roles. The Knockout gives a hapless amateur boxer his shot, Laughing Gas lets a dentist’s bungling assistant inhale the laughing gas, The Front Page schemes to keep a reporter from quitting, and Tobacco Road follows a destitute Georgia sharecropper family. Dough and Dynamite and Tillie’s Punctured Romance round out the list.
01 Marjorie Rambeau appears in this John Ford drama about a destitute Georgia farming family that struggles to survive amid poverty and hard times.
Directed by John Ford · 1h 24m · Rated NR
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02 A newspaper editor schemes to stop his star reporter from quitting to get married.
Directed by Lewis Milestone · 1h 41m · Rated NR
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Stream: Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Artiflix, Brew · Rent or buy: Amazon Video
Stream: Criterion Channel, Artiflix, Brew
Stream: Artiflix, Brew · Rent or buy: Amazon Video
Stream: Artiflix, Brew
03 Slim Summerville is in this silent short about a hapless amateur boxer who gets his unlikely shot at the ring in a chaotic prizefighting comedy.
Directed by Mack Sennett · 0h 30m · Rated NR
04 Slim Summerville appears in this Chaplin short where a dentist's bungling new assistant causes chaotic mayhem after inhaling his own laughing gas.
Directed by Charlie Chaplin · 0h 13m · Rated NR
Rent or buy: Amazon Video
Rent or buy: Amazon Video
Rent or buy: Amazon Video
05 Slim Summerville features in this Chaplin short about two bumbling bakery workers who accidentally ignite a series of explosive mishaps.
Directed by Charlie Chaplin · 0h 28m
Rent or buy: Amazon Video
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Rent or buy: Amazon Video
06 Al St. John features in this silent comedy about a country girl swindled by a con man posing as her suitor, with chaotic results.
Directed by Mack Sennett · 1h 22m · Rated NR
Stream: fuboTV, Artiflix
Stream: Artiflix
Stream: Artiflix
Stream: Artiflix
Stream: Artiflix
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