Charles Reisner Movies

His Lying Heart is a silent comedy short.

A detective is hired to protect the life of a singer, who has recently inherited a department store, from the store's crooked manager.

In this holiday short, Jackie Cooper wants to throw a Christmas party for his friends on his football team but doesn't know how to go about it. His...

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

In this musical comedy, a crooked record producer uses his mob connections to force performers to do their stuff. The trouble really begins when the...

Landladies Polly Smith and Marie Jones, who operate boardinghouses on the same side of the street, are afflicted with numerous petty envies and...

A mystery writer and his sweetheart are held hostage by a fugitive gangster, who hopes to enlist their help in devising the perfect murder.

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

Con men Calvin Churchill and Clip McGurk know how to fix a horse-race or boxing match. Calvin wants to go straight and win back his estranged wife,...

Two loony buddies get caught up in a Chinese revolution.

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

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

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...

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...

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...

A widow's decision to run for mayor kicks off a battle of the sexes in a small town.

A wealthy young man disguises himself as a gardener to be near the woman he secretly loves. He discovers that the butler is an enemy spy who plans to...

A Navy veteran takes up boxing and winds up killing his own friend in the ring during a championship match.

A scorned woman dreams of revenge on the man who betrayed her.

Aubrey cons Amy into thinking he's a railroad bigwig. When he loses his job he takes one wearing a sandwich board. After he helps Joe sell his patent...