Caught Short

Caught Short

Take a tip in the Happiness Market and win a Million in Laughs!

NR 1930 · 75 min · ★ 7.0 · Comedy

Landladies Polly Smith and Marie Jones, who operate boardinghouses on the same side of the street, are afflicted with numerous petty envies and jealousies but nevertheless are the best of friends. Polly invests in the stock market and begins to reap rewards, but she is unable to persuade Marie to use her life's savings to buy shares of American Cheese or Brazilian Bananas. Meanwhile, Marie's daughter, Genevieve, and Polly's son, William, just back from college, fall in love; but an argument between the ladies breaks up the romance; and smarting under Polly's patronizing manner, Marie plunges into the market herself and with the winnings is able to stage a society splurge at a fashionable resort.

Directed by Charles Reisner · Written by Joseph H. Johnson

Your Rating

Cast

Marie Dressler Marie Jones
Polly Moran Polly Smith
Anita Page Genevieve Jones
Charles Morton William Smith
Thomas Conlin Frankie
Douglas Haig Johnny
Nanci Price Priscilla
Greta Mann Sophy

Make it a double feature

2h 35m together

Caught Short

Hollywood

Both from Charles Reisner.

More from Charles ReisnerSee all →

Hollywood

Hollywood · 1923

MovieComedyDrama

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 longtime boyfriend back in Centerville. Despite seeing major movie stars around every corner, and knocking on every casting office door in town, at the end of her first day she is still unemployed. To her horror, when she arrives back at their hotel, she finds that Grandpa has been cast in a movie by William DeMille and quickly becomes a star during the ensuing weeks. Her family, worried that Angela and Grandpa are getting into trouble, come to Hollywood to drag them back home. In short order Aunt, Grandma, brother, boyfriend and even the parrot become superstars, but Angela is still unemployed...

Noisy Neighbors

Noisy Neighbors · 1929

Noisy Neighbors

MovieComedyMusic

A family of down-and-out vaudevillians discover that they are the last of the Van Revels, heirs to a Southern plantation and a blood feud with the Carstairs family that began 60 years earlier over a game of croquet. After Eddie falls in love with the neighbors' daughter, a mountaineer branch of the Carstairs clan resumes the feud with the intent of annihilating the Van Revels.

The Kid

The Kid · 1921

MovieComedyDrama

A tramp cares for a boy after he's abandoned as a newborn by his mother. Later the mother has a change of heart and aches to be reunited with her son.

Her Temporary Husband

Her Temporary Husband · 1923

Her Temporary Husband

Blanche will inherit her aunt's large estate, providing that she gets married within 24 hours. She chooses to wed John, an old man living at a rest home who is not expected to live much longer.

Brotherly Love

Brotherly Love · 1928

MovieDramaComedy

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 him sent to Newberry. It's not long before both men fall in love with Mary, the daughter of the warden. Oscar gets Jerry put on the prison football team, where he is the smallest guy there, figuring that he will look like a fool in front of Mary and then she will pick Oscar. However, things don't turn out quite the way Oscar planned.

All's Swell on the Ocean

All's Swell on the Ocean · 1924

All's Swell on the Ocean

Homesick for America, Jack and his pals get aboard a ship U. S.-bound disguised as entertainers. As entertainers they're flops, but evoke considerable mirth among the passengers by their efforts. Jack arouses the jealousy of a Frenchman, who is keen on a young French girl, and is challenged to a fight. The Frenchman fights a la Savatte (the French method, including kicking, bucking, etc.) and is getting the better of Jack, until the latter dons a pair of hobnailed brogans. He consents to remove these if his adversary will put boxing gloves on his feet. The Frenchman gets seasick and is counted out as he leans over the rail, where he is soon joined by Jack.

Steamboat Bill, Jr.

Steamboat Bill, Jr. · 1928

Steamboat Bill, Jr.

MovieComedyRomance

The just-out-of-college, effete son of a no-nonsense steamboat captain comes to visit his father whom he's not seen since he was a child.

The Chaplin Revue

The Chaplin Revue · 1959

The Chaplin Revue

Three Chaplin silent comedies "A Dog's Life", "Shoulder Arms", and "The Pilgrim" are strung together to form a single feature length film. Chaplin provides new music, narration, and a small amount of new connecting material. "Shoulder Arms" is now described as taking place in a time before "the atom bomb".

A Dog's Life

A Dog's Life · 1918

The Tramp and his dog companion struggle to survive in the inner city.

Pay Day

Pay Day · 1922

A bricklayer and his wife clash over his end-of-the-week partying.

The Pilgrim

The Pilgrim · 1923

MovieComedyWestern

The Tramp is an escaped convict who is mistaken as a pastor in a small town church.

Shoulder Arms

Shoulder Arms · 1918

An American doughboy, stationed in France during the Great War, goes on a daring mission behind enemy lines and becomes a hero.

The Idle Class

The Idle Class · 1921

At an upper class golf resort, a tramp discovers he's the lookalike of a rich man with a beautiful, unhappy wife.

Railroaded!

Railroaded! · 1947

MovieThrillerDrama

A beautician and her crooked boyfriend attempt to rob the bookie operation located in the back room, but when the plan goes wrong, they frame an innocent man.

The Big Store

The Big Store · 1941

MovieComedyMusic

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

Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die

Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die · 1942

Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die

Uneven version of Wyatt Earp vs. the Clanton Gang with a little romance thrown in haphazardly.

More Like This

Couldn't load this row right now.

Rate this film

Your ratings make Midnight smarter