Ford Sterling Movies

This short film takes a nostalgic look at the Mack Sennett comedies of the silent cinema era.

Mabel has two suitors, Smith and Jones. Smith is an elderly man who impetuously sweeps everything before him, and his dashing ways win Mabel's heart....

Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the...

Gold digging blonde Lorelei and her brunette friend Dorothy are searching for rich husbands. This film is believed lost.

The wealthy von Wellingens are shocked when the father of their son Fred's fiancée Lia juggles desserts at a formal dinner. They encourage...

The deacon's daughter, Betty, is in love with Harold Price. The deacon wants to buy a horse from Harry's father, but because Mr. Price will not give...

Sally is an orphan who was named by the telephone exchange where she was abandoned as a baby. In the orphanage, she discovered the joy of dancing....

A wealthy invalid tries to add his hard-working cook to his will, but the conniving butler gets in the way.

This early Keystone has Pete spying on his neighbor's wife through one of those little knotholes in a fence. The neighbor (Sterling) notices and...

His subjects have been vainly petitioning the king for improvements in his reign, without avail. The king pays too much attention to the sweetheart...

Doris Poole, whose parents were theatrical people, was orphaned as a child, and four members of the troupe adopted and raised her. When grown, she...

Jim Smith and Sallie Rice are very much in love with each other, but her father vehemently shows his disapproval of Jim. An elopement is planned, and...

This is quite like "Helen's Marriage" which came out a few months earlier in 1912. Once again, Edward Dillon is trying to elope with Mabel Normand,...

Keystone silent comedy.

A husband who has spent a convivial night is sleeping off the effects in bed while his devoted wife ministers for him.

The story of a woman on trial for her life for shooting the man who had promised to love her but had deserted her...and of a woman on the jury who...

Ford arranged for lazy Brown to be kidnapped and dynamited by thugs, so that he can move in and marry Mrs. Brown. Locations include Rambo's Hotel,...

May McAvoy is a woman who is blinded in an auto accident and relies on prayer to regain her sight.

Three rivals are aspirants for the hand of Mabel. Dad falls asleep in a rowboat and is set adrift by one, who tries to win favor as a hero by...

Two criminals chase a plainclothes policeman who, while taking out his dog, witnesses their crime.