Writing

Jefferson Moffitt

Known for

Writing

Credits

36 titles

Known for

Bonnie Scotland poster
6.6

Stan and Ollie stow away to Scotland expecting to inherit the MacLaurel estate. When things don't quite turn out that way, they unwittingly enlist in the Scottish army and are posted to India.

Bonnie Scotland

1935

Kelly the Second poster
7.0

A feisty Irish woman turns a truck driver into a championship boxer.

Kelly the Second

1936

Catalina, Here I Come poster
7.0

Wanda is a gum-chewing waitress; dim Eddie, the pastry boy at the café, likes her. So does Mr. Hamhocks, the café owner, whose head is also turned by the arrival of Pearl Minnow, a gold digger in town for the annual Catalina Channel Swim, sponsored by Wrigley's. Wanda and Pearl take a dislike to each other; Hamhocks is charmed by Pearl and Eddie stays loyal to Wanda. The day of the swimming contest arrives, the two women compete, and the two men try to help their respective gals. Their trials and tribulations mix with documentary footage of the event. An angry swordfish gets in the act.

Catalina, Here I Come

1927

Fight Night poster
6.0

While somewhat happily married, Walter Moore's eyes do stray from time to time, especially when Tessie McNab is within his eye-sight range. But while trying to just be helpful to a damsel-in-distress, Walter's jealous wife suspects there may be some hanky-panky involved.

Fight Night

1926

The Eagle's Talons poster
7.0

A stirring drama of Wall Street manipulation of the world's wheat supply, which leads the characters into adventures and danger in various corners of the globe.

The Eagle's Talons

1923

Whispering Whiskers poster
10.0

Billy Bevan and Andy Clyde play hobos who hop onto a train where they are hired. Their misadventures lead to chaos, blending mistaken identity with classic physical comedy.

Whispering Whiskers

1926

Behind the camera

Bonnie Scotland poster
6.6

Stan and Ollie stow away to Scotland expecting to inherit the MacLaurel estate. When things don't quite turn out that way, they unwittingly enlist in the Scottish army and are posted to India.

Bonnie Scotland

1935

Kelly the Second poster
7.0

A feisty Irish woman turns a truck driver into a championship boxer.

Kelly the Second

1936

Catalina, Here I Come poster
7.0

Wanda is a gum-chewing waitress; dim Eddie, the pastry boy at the café, likes her. So does Mr. Hamhocks, the café owner, whose head is also turned by the arrival of Pearl Minnow, a gold digger in town for the annual Catalina Channel Swim, sponsored by Wrigley's. Wanda and Pearl take a dislike to each other; Hamhocks is charmed by Pearl and Eddie stays loyal to Wanda. The day of the swimming contest arrives, the two women compete, and the two men try to help their respective gals. Their trials and tribulations mix with documentary footage of the event. An angry swordfish gets in the act.

Catalina, Here I Come

1927

Fight Night poster
6.0

While somewhat happily married, Walter Moore's eyes do stray from time to time, especially when Tessie McNab is within his eye-sight range. But while trying to just be helpful to a damsel-in-distress, Walter's jealous wife suspects there may be some hanky-panky involved.

Fight Night

1926

The Eagle's Talons poster
7.0

A stirring drama of Wall Street manipulation of the world's wheat supply, which leads the characters into adventures and danger in various corners of the globe.

The Eagle's Talons

1923

Whispering Whiskers poster
10.0

Billy Bevan and Andy Clyde play hobos who hop onto a train where they are hired. Their misadventures lead to chaos, blending mistaken identity with classic physical comedy.

Whispering Whiskers

1926

Love at First Flight poster
8.0

Love at First Flight is a 1928 comedy short.

Love at First Flight

1928

Cured in the Excitement poster
7.0

Professor Brawn has been swinging a dumbbell for so long he looks like one!

Cured in the Excitement

1927

The Lion's Whiskers poster
10.0

Billy works at a film studio where lots of things keep going wrong. First, while filming, the camera man and director nearly get dropped off a building. This stunt is funny and rather realistic. Second, Billy looks in a keyhole at what he THINKS is a lady taking a bath--and she's soon joined by a man!

The Lion's Whiskers

1925

The Pride of Pikeville poster
7.0

Unlikely Lothario, the less-than-dashing crossed-eyed Ben Turpin, finds himself pursued by many beautiful ladies.

The Pride of Pikeville

1927

Smith's Army Life poster
8.0

19th release in 'The Smith Family' series of 2-reel comedies.

Smith's Army Life

1928

The Campus Vamp poster
6.3

Love triangle in a campus with a blonde girl that really seems to not consider the "other" girl as an obstacle. Who will make it? And actually who cares when parties, sport games and lots of fun are available?

The Campus Vamp

1928

The Sword of Valor poster
9.0

American romantic comedy which had the well known Australian actor Snowy Baker as a cast member. The daughter of a Spanish don falls in love with an American captain the moment she sees him. Her father takes the girl to the Riveria, where she is promised to a wealthy cad, but the captain arrives in time to rescue her from him as well as a crazed gypsy who has abducted her.

The Sword of Valor

1924

Gold Digger of Weepah poster
8.0

Gold Digger of Weepah is a silent comedy short

Gold Digger of Weepah

1927

The Cowboy and the Flapper poster
8.0

U.S. Marshal, Dan Patterson, goes undercover as a criminal to infiltrate a gang holding a young woman named Alice Allison captive. He must earn her trust while battling the outlaws and keeping his true identity hidden.

The Cowboy and the Flapper

1924

Don't Play Bridge With Your Wife poster
NR

A Mack Sennett-produced sound short about couples playing bridge through the ages.

Don't Play Bridge With Your Wife

1933

The Girl from Nowhere poster
9.0

Dress shop owner, Tillie Tucker, lands a job at a Hollywood film studio and brings her boyfriend and employee, Miss Boyle, out West.

The Girl from Nowhere

1928

From Rags to Britches poster
9.0

Billy inherits a major department store, but has to pretend not to be married in order to claim it - which doesn't sit too well with his wife.

From Rags to Britches

1925

Super-Hooper-Dyne Lizzies poster
8.0

An eccentric inventor has thought of a way that automobiles can run on radio waves, without gasoline. His plans put him in conflict with the owner of an oil company, who is also pursuing the inventor's daughter. This rival begins to scheme against the inventor, and it is left up to the inventor's hired man to try to stop him.

Super-Hooper-Dyne Lizzies

1925

In the Days of Daniel Boone poster
8.0

15-episode serialized Western directed by William James Craft. 1. His Country's Need 2. At Sword's Point 3. Liberty or Death 4. Foiling the Regulators 5. Perilous Paths 6. Trapped 7. In the Hands of the Enemy 8. Over the Cliff 9. The Flaming Forest 10. Running the Gauntlet 11. The Wilderness Trail 12. The Fort in the Forest 13. The Boiling Springs 14. Chief Blackfish Attacks 15. Boone's Triumph.

In the Days of Daniel Boone

1923

Motorboat Mamas poster
9.0

Motorboat Mamas is a silent comedy short.

Motorboat Mamas

1928

No artwork available
10.0

Hayfoot, Strawfoot? is a silent comedy short.

Hayfoot, Strawfoot?

1926

No artwork available
10.0

Hayfoot, Strawfoot? is a silent comedy short.

Hayfoot, Strawfoot?

1926

Smith's Restaurant poster
7.0

The Smiths open a restaurant, but can’t pay their bills because all of their customers won’t pay their checks.

Smith's Restaurant

1928

No artwork available
9.0

Two barbers, Billy and Andy head out West when one of their customers tells them that gold can literally be scooped up off the ground. Unbeknownst to them and with the shop’s manicurist in tow they run into their customer again who is a crooked gambler winning his money by questionable methods. As he rakes in the pots, an assistant pours the money down a chute which leads to a vault. Billy and Andy, in their explorations, find this vault and think they have discovered a mine. Taking some of the money, they go to the gambler's room and sit in the game. Thus, the money continues to circulate - from the mine to Billy - from Billy to the gambler - and down the chute again.

Trimmed in Gold

1926

No artwork available
9.0

Hubby's Weekend Trip is a silent comedy short.

Hubby's Weekend Trip

1928

Broke in China poster
6.7

Donald Drake, a deep sea gondolier ex soda jerk, arrives at the All Nation Cafe in Shanghai. The proprietor believes he's a penniless ne'er-do-well - which he is - but he unexpectedly comes into a small windfall. So the proprietor orders slightly rough around the edges Maud and Mollie, two of his American good time girls working their way around the world, to get him to spend all his money while there. As Donald ends up telling the two good time girls his life story - most specifically about the blonde he let slip through his fingers, she who was the love of his life - a few revelations and the errant coin he left at the roulette wheel betting table change his life.

Broke in China

1927

Matchmaking Mamma poster
4.8

This marriage is the second for both Mr. & Mrs. Cornelius McNitt. He is panty-whipped by his social climbing second wife. She has recruited Clifford Figfield to stage and direct a charity pageant, which is more a means for her to hobnob with the social elite, and to nab Larry Lodge, the pageant's leading man, as a husband for her flighty daughter Phyllis, the pageant's leading lady. Larry ends up only having eyes for Sally McNitt, Mr. McNitt's visiting daughter, and she, in turn has eyes for him.

Matchmaking Mamma

1929

His New Stenographer poster
NR

Billy Brooks, a lawyer, sets out to get a divorce for a client by framing him in a compromising situation. But the scheme goes askew when the client's wife gets a job as Billy's new stenographer and he, not knowing who she is, selects her as the correspondent to frame her own husband.

His New Stenographer

1928

Sneezing Beezers poster
9.0

An exiled king supports his daughter and himself by serving genuine chili con carne at a rapid-service lunch counter. Word arrives that he will be crowned if he returns to Necko-Shavia and hires a taxi driver to take him there. It all turns out to be a ploy by villains to get them back to the snow-covered country. When the villains kidnap the princess and attempt a getaway in their airplane taxi driver Billy daringly negotiates a high jump on his skis and overtakes the plane in mid-air, thus affecting a thrilling rescue.

Sneezing Beezers

1925

The Oregon Trail poster
8.0

18 episode adventure serial. 1. Westward Ho!, 2. White Treachery, 3. Across the Continent, 4. Message of Death, 5. Wagon of Doom, 6. Secret Foes, 7. A Man of God, 8. Seeds of Civilization, 9. Justice, 10. The New Era, 11. A Game of Nations, 12. To Save an Empire, 13, Trail of Death, 14. On to Washington, 15. Santa Fe, 16. Fate of a Nation, 17. For High Stakes, 18. Victory

The Oregon Trail

1923

Legionnaires in Paris poster
8.0

Two American soldiers are on leave in Paris on Armistice Day and, due to a misunderstanding, believe that they've killed a man, although accidentally. When they discover that the police are looking for them, they're convinced that they're in big trouble and take off. Complications ensue.

Legionnaires in Paris

1927

The Iron Nag poster
8.0

A jail break turns into a race.

The Iron Nag

1925

No artwork available
10.0

Young Flint (Eddie Quillan), finds himself in a series of slapstick mishaps revolving around the absurdity of the bullfighting arena, featuring a climactic sequence where the bumbling protagonists must face a bull in the ring.

The Bull Fighter

1927

The Beach Club poster
10.0

In and out of the water, Billy makes waves at the Blue Point Beach Club.

The Beach Club

1928

Nurse to You! poster
7.0

Cautious, frugal Charley is told by his insurance doctor that he has six months to live, and goes on to live life to the fullest.

Nurse to You!

1935