Franklin Pangborn Movies

A girl from a show-business family seeks a backer for her boyfriend's musical.

This film is a compilation, with narration by Steve Allen, of comedies from the old Mack Sennett silent studio. Sennett, himself, appears in a cameo...

A Mack Sennett Talking Comedy, released through Paramount Pictures, starring Franklin Pangborn and featuring Dorothy Granger.

A gang of inept crooks and even more inept lawmen search for a cache of hidden money.

A group of musicians is determined to appear on a radio program.

A young violin prodigy is assumed kidnapped after he runs away from home.

Song composer Howard Green is frustrated by disturbances his wife, in-laws, and landlord while writing his latest song.

Honeymoon Lodge is a musical variation on the old Awful Truth plotline. Divorce-bound Bob and Carol Sterling (David Bruce, June Vincent) make a...

Because Thornwood's portraits of comely model Sally Dennis are in such great demand, he is obliged to spend virtually all his time with Sally, which...

Torchy (Ray Cooke) is an office boy....sort of like a secretary that does a variety of tasks for the boss. Well, when the boss is out one day, a...

Fired from his job as office boy, Torchy gets involved with a phony gold mine promoter.

The final entry in the Torchy short series starring Ray Cooke as things go wrong at a gathering.

A quirky short about Love and Liars.

Franklin gets into a disagreement with a tough sea captain. However, he doesn't find out until later that the captain is his fiance's father.

Ray Cooke is Torchy the Office boy, told to deliver a letter; through a series of accidents, he winds up with the letter torn and can't explain it to...

A musical revue in which a golfer is knocked unconscious by a golf ball and dreams that the Country Club is loaded with beautiful girls.

Two marines stationed in the Chinese port of Hang Chow decide to swear off women and join the lighthouse patrol.

A scrapping married couple, Franklin Pangborn and Bernice Elliott, are going to Reno to get a divorce. They have a scheme in order to obtain cruelty...

A woman, affectionately called Blondie by her husband, hires a cook called Blondie by both her boyfriends. When all five end up in the house at the...

When the story begins, you learn that Torchy's boss has a problem with his blood pressure and the doctor recommends he take a rest. So, he plans on...