Charles Reisner Movies

The daughter of a soap manufacturer heads to the wild and woolly west to sell her daddy's product.

The dim-witted son of a heroic fire chief tries to follow in his late father's footsteps, only to become the unknowing pawn of corrupt politicians.

Oh! What a Nurse! is a 1926 American comedy film directed by Charles Reisner and written by Darryl F. Zanuck. The film stars Sydney Chaplin, Patsy...

Culture shock bombards a woman and her family when they leave their hick town to help her sister out in her big-city beauty parlor.

A former jockey teaches a newcomer the dirty tricks of the track.

In this Warner Bros. short film, Alex visits his sister Belinda and her husband Fred. It looks like Alex is going to be around for a while, much to...

Begins with a child-cast parody of "The Kid." The Adams portion finds the guy chased about town because they are looking for some crook in a gray...

A newspaper reporter investigates the near-fatal shooting of a medical scientist.

Oscar, a tough guard at Newberry Prison, gets into an argument with Jerry, a smallish barber. He causes Jerry to be arrested as a fugitive, and gets...

Arthur Wells, an impoverished poet, impersonates a big-game hunter in an attempt to locate the missing link. However, the poet has an aversion to...

A divorced glamour girl keeps warm with a professor amid sports and romance at Dartmouth College's Winter Carnival.

Unfinished pre-Code era film consisting of three sections with past performers from the stage and the vaudeville circuit, then-present-day performers...

Two loony buddies get caught up in a Chinese revolution.

When her sister dies, a nightclub singer is left with her children. In order to raise the children properly, she leaves her singing career and takes...

His Lying Heart is a silent comedy short.

The Fortune Hunter is a lost 1927 silent film comedy directed by Charles Reisner and starring Syd Chaplin. It is based on the 1909 Broadway play The...

A girl gets trapped by racketeers and chaos happens at a gambling house.

An homage to NYC in the form of a short travelogue.