Movies by Dot Farley

His Unlucky Night

His Unlucky Night

Friends Billy Trotter and Homer Brown are both traveling salesmen who meet up at a hotel on their travels. Since they last saw each other, Billy has gotten married. Homer is lamenting still being single and thinks that he will never find a woman who will want to be Mrs. Brown. Billy gets one of his old girlfriends, Peggy, a telephone operator, reluctantly to set Homer up with one of her friends. She chooses Jennie, a homebody of a woman who generally spends her evenings playing checkers with her father. Billy and Peggy accompany Homer and Je...

Variety Time

Variety Time

Jack Parr hosts a variety program of comedic sketches.

The Code of the Scarlet

The Code of the Scarlet

Assigned to catch a gang of outlaws, officers Bruce Kenton and Paddy Halloran rescue Helen Morgan when her wagon is attacked by the very same gang. Through a ruse, Kenton manages to infiltrate the gang, which is holed up in the lawless community of Caribou Flats. While in the employ of villainous trading post operator Jack Blake, Kenton discovers that Blake is not only the leader of the gang but also the man who murdered Helen's brother.

Rugged Water

Rugged Water

After years of service, the Captain of the Setuckit Life Saving Station on Cape Cod retires, Calvin Homer, the second in command, Calvin Homer expects to be promoted; but the appointment goes instead to Bartlett, a religious fanatic who has been the recipient of a good deal of favorable newspaper publicity. Calvin hands in his resignation.

The Overland Stage

The Overland Stage

At a trading post in the Northern Dakotas, Hawk Lespard, an unscrupulous trader, is opposed by Jack Jessup, posing as a gambler but actually a scout for the Overland Stage Co., and Kunga-Sunga, a wizard with the lariat.

The Girl from Nowhere

The Girl from Nowhere

Dress shop owner, Tillie Tucker, lands a job at a Hollywood film studio and brings her boyfriend and employee, Miss Boyle, out West.

The Bicycle Flirt

The Bicycle Flirt

Billy is a professional deadbeat who prefers to ride his bicycle instead of work. His wife's brother, Henry, puts pressure on his sister to leave Billy, telling her to find a man who is more industrious.

A Woman of the World

A Woman of the World

A European countess, after being betrayed by her lover, goes to live in small town Middle America with her cousins and causes havoc among the rather puritanical community members.

Wine

Wine

Wine is a 1913 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Ford Sterling.

My Son

My Son

A mother and her son's lives are upended by the arrival of a wealthy flapper to their small New England fishing village.

A Punch in the Nose

A Punch in the Nose

A troupe of actors stranded in a small town take job as recreation directors in a sanitarium and hilarity ensues.

Picking Peaches

Picking Peaches

A series of sketches with a shoe clerk, his wife, and his extra-curricular activities. The shoe clerk steps out on his wife with one of his customers. Both his wife and the woman's husband catch them when they go to the beach and later watch a beauty and fashion contest. His wife enters it wearing a mask. Back at work on Monday, all has returned to normal, until the winner of the contest shows up for her prize - a complete wardrobe...

Bangville Police

Bangville Police

A young farm maid overhears two cow-hands talking in the barn, and she becomes convinced they’re about to rob her. She barricades herself in a room and calls the police. Her call wakes the chief, who rallies the country justice constabulary and they set off toward the farm, in steam-car and on foot. Meanwhile, the maiden’s parents rush to save her. Everything points toward a showdown in the barn, where no one, including the police force, will be cowed.

A Life in the Balance

A Life in the Balance

A Keystone Kops short about a landlord discovering three "anner-kist" tenants building a bomb.

The Family Upstairs

The Family Upstairs

Lady Be Good

Lady Be Good

Two engaged vaudeville magicians quarrel and go their separate ways.

San Fernando Valley

San Fernando Valley

A ranch owner fires his ranch hands and brings in women to replace them. The owner's daughter wants the male hands back and comes up with a plan to do it.

It's Your Move

It's Your Move

Edgar's landlord wants to sell the house Edgar is renting. He has to come up with the money in two weeks or the landlord will sell it out from under him.

Bridal Bail

Bridal Bail

When a theater offers a free wedding to a couple, confusion reigns.

Prunes and Politics

Prunes and Politics

Edgar is running for county supervisor against his mother-in-law. Edgar, whose campaign is going nowhere, decides to try some dirty-tricks style tactics but, as usual, everything backfires on him.