Movies by William McCall

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...

Hooked at the Altar

Hooked at the Altar

A vamp is hired to destroy an impending wedding.

Across the Border

Across the Border

Andy Fowler is made a member of a gang of rustlers after rescuing one of their number from a fire, but he finds his freedom threatened by the local sheriff, who is actually the gang's leader and wants Andy's girlfriend for his own.

Desert Valley

Desert Valley

Seeing cattle dying of thirst, a stranger shoots a hole in Hoades water pipeline. Hoades is hoarding water trying to drive the ranchers away. Hounded by the law for stealing a pie, the stranger sees a chance to redeem himself by forcing Hoades to sell his pipeline and leave the area.

Cold Turkey

Cold Turkey

Remember When?

Remember When?

Little orphan Harry is separated from his childhood sweetheart. Years later, he finds she's a bearded lady in a circus.

Bashful Jim

Bashful Jim

Shy Ralph Graves is inspired by a movie hero to go after the girl he loves (Alice Day). A Mack Sennett slapstick comedy short.

Taxi for Two

Taxi for Two

Dan Doolittle is a poor schmuck whose big talk usually gets him into trouble. After he is fired from his plumbing job, he saves Dolly Davis, who, grateful, promises to get him a job at the company where she works, Owl Taxi, which is owned by her father. That job is as the jack-of-all-trades in the garage, under the supervision of the garage foreman, whose job he expects to have within the week. But Dan becomes the bane of the foreman's existence, in part because Dan would rather spend his time with Dolly to who he is attracted. But after Dan...

Under Texas Skies

Under Texas Skies

Three cowboys try to stop a crook from defrauding an orphan girl out of her money.

Outlaws of the Range

Outlaws of the Range

When Steve Harper chases down some rustlers, he loses his gun in the ensuing fistfight. After Wilson is killed, Steve's gun is found nearby and he as arrested. Jimmy Wilson breaks him out of jail and he heads after the real killer.

Smith's Army Life

Smith's Army Life

19th release in 'The Smith Family' series of 2-reel comedies.

Flower of the North

Flower of the North

Two men, Philip Whittemore (Henry B. Walthall) and Thorpe (Harry Northrup) both go to the Northwest to gain the right-of-way for their railroad company from D'Arcambal (Emmett King). Whittemore arrives first and D'Arcambal refuses to meet with him until he saves his daughter, Jeanne (Pauline Starke) from going over the rapids. Then Thorpe arrives and tries to use force by kidnapping Jeanne and insisting that he is her father.

Hubby’s Quiet Little Game

Hubby’s Quiet Little Game

A dancing instructor goes to a married woman's home, to giver her lessons, while her husband is absent. He leaves and goes to a poker game. The husband is one of the players, and the instructor, not knowing who he is, shows her picture around the table. This prompts a round-table discussion in which none of the standard rules for civility is part of the discussion.

The Jolly Jilter

The Jolly Jilter

Silent comedy short film starring Ben Turpin

Desert Mesa

Desert Mesa

A jobless cowpuncher rides into Cottonwood, Arizona in search of the man who swindled his father.

The Rodeo

The Rodeo

The film begins with a family at home having a meal. The biggest laugh involved some candles being substituted for asparagus and the hilarity that resulted when the people and dog at them. Later, the decide to go to the rodeo but 1001 problems occur on the way there in the car.

The Pride of Pikeville

The Pride of Pikeville

Unlikely Lothario, the less-than-dashing crossed-eyed Ben Turpin, finds himself pursued by many beautiful ladies.

Motorboat Mamas

Motorboat Mamas

Motorboat Mamas is a silent comedy short.

Hidden Dangers

Hidden Dangers

Hidden Dangers is a 1920 serial film.

Kitty from Killarney

Kitty from Killarney

Kitty from Killarney is a 1926 comedy short.