Charles Reisner Movies

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

Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her...

In this Warner Bros. short film, Alex visits his sister Belinda and her husband Fred. It looks like Alex is going to be around for a while, much to...

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

Wealthy Sam Hunter is approached by scheming Richard Whitehead about investing in oil. There appears to be no oil, and everyone is angry until oil is...

Begins with a child-cast parody of "The Kid." The Adams portion finds the guy chased about town because they are looking for some crook in a gray...

A divorced glamour girl keeps warm with a professor amid sports and romance at Dartmouth College's Winter Carnival.

The daughter of a soap manufacturer heads to the wild and woolly west to sell her daddy's product.

A former jockey teaches a newcomer the dirty tricks of the track.

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

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

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

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...

Two loony buddies get caught up in a Chinese revolution.

His Lying Heart is a silent comedy short.

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...

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

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