Donald MacBride Movies

A freshly minted private eye is sent to a sanitarium as a gag.

Johnny (Shemp Howard) is promised the chief process server's job if he can serve a summons on Musclebound Pete, a local hood. Like the servers before...

A vaudeville team convinces an agent to book their new act, which uses a Civil War theme.

Story of a war veteran, who is persuaded by a machine politico to run for alderman. He finds that disreputable politicians are using his war record...

Theatrical producers Don Avery and Jeff Crandall, desperate to secure financial backing for their new Broadway play, hatch a scheme to con wealthy...

Fatty invents a liquid with flubber-like properties which makes objects resilient and unbreakable. Unfortunately, in his rush to get out of the house...

An Educational Pictures comedy starring the husband and wife team of Tim and Irene Ryan.

Buster plays Elmer "Happy" Triple, a scientist who is expected to develop the next big thing. That big thing ends up to be a powder when combined...

Tom Howard gets into a poker game on the train with some guys who make up their own rules.

In this short film, Charlie McCarthy and Edgar Bergen preside over the courtroom for a day, dispensing their own comic brand of justice.

The lovely and wealthy Gladys Barnes is pursued by many young men though she favors the persistent Earle. Her head is turned when her father tells...

A clumsy handyman mixes up a mail-order bride and a prize cow, both named "Flossie," with humorous results.

Margaret Kennard takes her baby daughter Agnes and leaves her husband Eustace for James Carroll. Upon discovering that James is a thief, she leaves...

Harry (Harry Gribbon) and Beulah are married when the story begins. However, Harry has plenty of evidence that Beulah might be cheating on him...but...

Ruth Etting shows how she make a perfect three minute egg by singing a song with a length of exactly three minutes.

George Shelton asks Tom Howard to help him impress his girl as a he-man. Howard is to insult him, and then Shelton comes up and punches out Howard....

Cuban Fireball is a vehicle for the combustible talents of Estelita Rodriguez, here cast as "herself." The plot finds Estelita arriving in Los...

After fire chief, Fire-Eating Sam's girlfriend is married to Smoky Moe, and his house is burned down during a wedding ceremony, he gets revenge on...

A husband scolds his wife for not being able to manage her finances better. Unbeknown to her, he's getting rich from a crooked stock scam he's...