Franklin Pangborn Movies

Ray Cooke's employer needs to raise $100,000 to retain control of his company. He hopes to get them from his cousins. When the old ladies show up,...

The biography of Dr. W.T. Morgan, a 19th century Boston dentist, during his quest to have anesthesia, in the form of ether, accepted by the public...

A young husband schemes to regain his wife, who earlier had left him and now is involved with a European playboy.

This film is a compilation, with narration by Steve Allen, of comedies from the old Mack Sennett silent studio. Sennett, himself, appears in a cameo...

A beautiful woman suspected of being a jewel thief is actually a detective tracking down a ring of bond thieves.

Hank Medhill, artificial silk manufacturer, has returned to the U.S. from Japan to learn that his former girlfriend, Eleanor Breen is about to marry....

When the daughter of a newspaper publisher is falsely charged with murder, a reporter on her father's paper goes into hiding with her. At first...

Dr. Bill Remsen pretends to be a policeman, and ends up being assigned to guard Judy Marlowe. Amazingly, he falls in love with her.

Linda Wadsworth rebels against her millionaire grandfather, J. H. Wadsworth, and runs away from home. Unknown to Mr. Wadsworth, she gets a job at one...

A young girl arrives in Hollywood determined to become a star in the movies but finds that attaining stardom is a lot more difficult than she counted...

While attending stenographer school, Tillie Jones meets office boy Mac, who falls in love with her at first sight. Though Tillie likes Mac as a...

In this musical short, the son of a department store owner replaces the regular sales girls with chorus girls.

At Phwitterby-on-Thames, England, a murder has occurred and Philo Holmes and Dr. Watkins are out to investigate it. It seems as though there was a...

A poor clerk pretends that he has lots of money.

A man and a woman, who have never met, are forced by pecuniary circumstances to share the same basement apartment in shifts.

A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot.

Nightclub gangsters hire a vaudeville act called the Three Funny Bunnies (Ritz Brothers).

Three sisters take their small inheritance and move from Kansas to California in search of rich husbands. To start with, Pamela poses as a socialite...

A man is put on trial for the murder of his best friend. A young attorney wants to become successful and decides to defend him. However, he is very...

Two marines stationed in the Chinese port of Hang Chow decide to swear off women and join the lighthouse patrol.