James Finlayson Movies

The story of the first Thanksgiving is re-imagined as a father tells it to his son.

This western comedy is about rancher Finlayson's beautiful daughter, Martha Sleeper, who refuses to marry the bad guy and how Jimmy and dimwitted...

While changing clothes in a getaway car, escaped convicts Stan and Ollie mistakenly put on each other's pants. They spend the rest of the film trying...

Knockabout comedy in which woman marries widower each having a child of their own which the other knows nothing about.

The adventures of the eighteenth century highwayman Dick Turpin and his legendary ride to York.

A newly-married woman disguises herself as a doughboy in order to stay close to her husband.

Newly Rich is a silent comedy short

Bobby Clark and Paul McCullough star as a couple of wacky soda jerks. They do a high wire act while delivering a much needed pair of pants to their...

Mr. Barry has a huge argument with his wife, and to make her jealous, he asks his valet to set him up with a pretty girl who is stranded in their...

Snub gets a job helping an auctioneer. He’s instructed to sell off a household estate, but goes to the wrong house. After everything is sold,...

Clark & McCullough are arrested for disturbing the peace. They steal the police car and return it to the station. The new police commissioner...

The film is a series of comical musical numbers and skits following Phil Harris around, starting with him performing at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub,...

Charley, representing a manufacturer of musical instruments, is sent to investigate why certain mail orders have not been settled. Charley, carrying...

Finlayson plays an intrepid army cameraman on the battlefield in the world war, and Rowe plays his hapless assistant. Cranking away in no man's land,...

Twin "babies" left at an orphanage bear the same birthmark under the chin. One of them is adopted and then the scene shifts to "twenty years later."...

Pursued by the law, a street cleaner finds refuge by impersonating a dentist.

Vermuda, a saleswoman in a department store, is very late for work. She relies on a ruse to fool the floorwalker, and when that doesn't work, she...

A very good as a faithful husband, whose wife is looking for proof that more than his eyes have been roving. She hires a private detective to provide...

Two vaudevillian comedians try to stage a show in a theatre that has a reputation for being being haunted.