Movies by John J. Richardson

Fearless Harry

Fearless Harry

Beautiful Belinda is kidnapped by Relentless Rudolph; Hairbreadth Harry must race to her rescue.

Lizzies of the Field

Lizzies of the Field

There is no love lost between the Red Dog Garage and the Black Cat Garage, two auto repair shops on opposite sides of the street. A big cross-country auto race is announced, and it turns into a no-holds-barred contest as the rival garages go all out to win.

Black Oxfords

Black Oxfords

In this Mack Sennett comedy, a mother and daughter fear foreclosure because their mortgage payment is due and they're unable to pay it. Meanwhile, the family's son Jack, who's in prison, unexpectedly finds himself free of captivity.

Galloping Bungalows

Galloping Bungalows

All the qualified men line up to be chosen, as an heiress advertises that she will marry the man with the most interesting mustache, that marriage which comes with a mansion. John Syrup Soother wins the marriage to who he believes is the heiress, Olive Palmer, a tank of a woman who has lost her beauty with age. But he learns that he his betrothed is not the heiress, Diana Palmer, but her mother. Howson Lotts, a shyster and one of Diana's other suitors, sells John a beach-front house for his new life, that house which is not all that it seems...

Super-Hooper-Dyne Lizzies

Super-Hooper-Dyne Lizzies

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.

Water Wagons

Water Wagons

A boat race rivalry erupts into comical danger.

Sign Them Papers

Sign Them Papers

Beautiful Belinda is kidnapped by terrible people who want her to sign over a gold mine.

The Dare-Devil

The Dare-Devil

The movie makers are filming the next installment of the western serial "Get Your Man". The movie's leading man wants his stunt double to do the next dangerous stunt. Purely by accident, a hapless, cross-eyed aspiring actor named Joe Magee ends up doing the stunt perfectly. He ends up doing dangerous stunt after stunt, all by accident, that fit the movie so perfectly that the movie's leading lady wants him in the picture. The exasperated director finds that getting Joe to do the stunts on command is an entirely different story.

Thrilling Youth

Thrilling Youth

Billy Davis discovers that his father's bakery business is in serious financial trouble and leaves college in order to help his family.

When Summer Comes

When Summer Comes

Rampaging lions are on the loose in a hunting lodge. Approximately, only eight minutes of the short survives.

Call a Cop

Call a Cop

Wacky shenanigans ensue when our gang of merrymakers "Call a Cop"!