Writing

Al Boasberg

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Her Father Said No poster
7.0

While taking a morning workout, young prizefighter Danny Martin encounters Charlotte Hamilton in distress over her balky roadster. Martin wins his fight but is counted a loser by a crooked referee. Later, he is invited to a barbecue at Charlotte's home, but when John Hamilton, who strongly dislikes fighters, learns of Martin's profession, he shows him the door. Danny gives up his career for Charlotte and opens a health resort for obese millionaires. Hamilton and his prospective son-in-law, Penrod, arrive at the resort for treatment, and their indignation and disgust at the treatment provide comic complications. Learning that Danny and Charlotte have already eloped, Hamilton is at first furious, then resigns himself to their happiness.

Her Father Said No

1927

So This Is College poster
4.7

Scheming coed Babs comes between college buddies Eddie and Biff.

So This Is College

1929

Battling Butler poster
6.7

A meek millionaire masquerades as a boxing star to win a girl's heart.

Battling Butler

1926

The Stolen Jools poster
5.6

Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanatorium.)

The Stolen Jools

1931

Cracked Nuts poster
8.0

To impress his fiancee's aunt, a young man tries to become king in a small kingdom, but the people there have already crowned one, who has won this honor by gambling. So he plans a coup d'etat. He tries to achieve this with a bomb, but then something goes wrong...

Cracked Nuts

1931

Counselitis poster
9.0

Leon Errol in court for stealing an umbrella and abusing his wife.

Counselitis

1935

No artwork available
10.0

Walter Catlett wants to join a fight club.

Uppercutlets

1936

Murder in the Private Car poster
5.6

Ruth Raymond works on the telephone switchboard of a large NYC office building. One day, a private detective informs her that she is actually the daughter of railroad tycoon Luke Carson, and that she had been kidnapped as a baby 14 years ago by Luke's vindictive brother Elwood, and placed with strangers.

Murder in the Private Car

1934

Chasing Rainbows poster
6.0

The road-show troupe of a top Broadway show go cross-country while taking the audience along on the on-stage scenes as well as what happens and is happening back stage of the production. The spectacular dancing ensembles and colorful costumes and pulchritude on-stage offers a contrasting background to the drabness of the backstage, where joy, sorrow, tragedies, deception, and romance are intertwined.

Chasing Rainbows

1930

Clancy's Kosher Wedding poster
9.0

Clancy's Kosher Wedding is a 1927 silent comedy film directed by Arvid E. Gillstrom.

Clancy's Kosher Wedding

1927

The Nitwits poster
6.7

A would-be songwriter and a would-be inventor run a cigar stand and get mixed up in the murder of a song publisher.

The Nitwits

1935

Doughboys poster
6.0

Elmer, rich society loafer, falls for Mary, but she'll have nothing to do with him until (mistakenly thinking that he's hiring a new chauffeur) he accidentally volunteers for the army. Luckily, Mary's signed up to entertain the troops. Unluckily, Elmer's sergeant likes Mary, too. And worst of all, they're all about to ship out for France.

Doughboys

1930

California or Bust poster
8.0

Jeff Daggett, owner of a garage in Rockett, Arizona, neglects his business for work on a new type of automobile motor, while Johnny Fox, his assistant, handles the business. President Holtwood of a motor company and his daughter Nadine are driving to California when their car breaks down near Rockett.

California or Bust

1927

Down the Ribber poster
10.0

Leon Errol trying to report a stolen car.

Down the Ribber

1936

No artwork available
7.0

Two partners in a clothing store decide they want to become radio performers.

Radio Dough

1934

No artwork available
7.0

Lew Kelly is a walking cuckoo-clock who thinks he is a judge. Leon and Eddie are two drunks who think they are drivers. They crash together, and Lew gets trapped in the middle. Leon and Eddie finally come to terms and leave Lew amidst the wreckage. The next day, Leon answers a court summons, only to find that Lew is the presiding judge, after sneaking in and taking over the job as the regular judge is absent.

Hit and Rum

1935

Fixing a Stew poster
9.0

Leon Erroll drinks too much, in the opinion of his mother-in-law, Dot Farley. So she arranges for everyone around him to talk in non-sequiturs until he decides to sober up permanently.

Fixing a Stew

1934

Silly Billies poster
8.5

The boys are a dentist and his assistant traveling to the Old West to open a new practice. Once in town, they buy a business--only to wake up the next day and see that the entire population of this bustling town had left for the California gold fields early that morning! Then, they discover an evil plot to sell out these settlers to some hostile Indians, so they spring to the rescue.

Silly Billies

1936

Myrt and Marge poster
4.1

Myrt has a show chock full of talented performers that deserves to be on Broadway, but can't raise the necessary money. Jackson, a lecherous "producer", provides the money in order to get his hands on the show's pretty young star, Marge. Myrt teams up with Marge's boyfriend to try to thwart the randy producer and get the show to Broadway.

Myrt and Marge

1933

Forward, March! poster
9.0

Spanish-language version of Buster Keaton's Doughboys (1930). This film is presumed to be lost.

Forward, March!

1930

Lambchops poster
6.5

George and Gracie enter an elegant drawing room, looking everywhere for something. Turns out, they're looking for the audience, and when George spots the camera, they start in on their patter. Gracie wants to convince George that she's smart, not dizzy - it's an uphill struggle of which she's blissfully unaware. Midway through, they break into song: "Do You Believe Me?" It includes a little bit of hoofing as the chatting continues. They end on a story Gracie whispers into George's ear.

Lambchops

1929

Jail Birds of Paradise poster
10.0

While the warden is away, his daughter attempts to turn prison into 'Paradise". Considered a Lost Film.

Jail Birds of Paradise

1934

Jail Birds of Paradise poster
10.0

While the warden is away, his daughter attempts to turn prison into 'Paradise". Considered a Lost Film.

Jail Birds of Paradise

1934

No artwork available
NR

Walter goes to his girlfriend's parents to ask their permission to marry her; but the family puts on an act and pretends to be totally loony.

The Fuller Gush Man

1934