Greatest 20 Comedy Movies Picks from 1922

A series of mishaps leads to a young man being chased by a big city's entire police force. Read about Cops / IMDB / YouTube

After a difficult day at work, a bricklayer tries to enjoy his pay day without his wife knowing. Get info on Pay Day / IMDB / YouTube

Buster helps a Native American tribe save their land from greedy oil barons. Explore The Paleface / IMDB / YouTube

After being mistakenly certified as an electrical engineer, Buster is hired to wire a house. Learn about The Electric House / IMDB / YouTube

Buster Keaton shoes horses and repairs cars, with mixed results. Details on The Blacksmith / IMDB / YouTube

A sincere young man leaves his home to win his fortune so he can marry his home town sweetheart. Find out about Day Dreams / IMDB / YouTube

Buster plays a bumbling villain in this parody of melodrama. Info on The Frozen North / IMDB / YouTube

By accident, Buster and an intimidating woman end up married. Details on My Wife's Relations / IMDB / YouTube

Country doctor Jack Jackson is called in to treat the Sick-Little-Well-Girl, who has been making Dr. Saulsbourg and his sanitarium very rich, after years of unsuccessful treatment. Dr. Jack's old-fashioned methods do the trick, and the quack is sent packing. Explore Dr. Jack / IMDB / YouTube

My Mistake is the tenth ranked movie in 1922 comedy list. Get info on My Mistake / IMDB / YouTube

This delightful burlesque of Alexandre Dumas' famous adventure narrative (and then-leading screen swashbuckler Douglas Fairbanks' hit films) represented one of writer/director/star Max Linder's attempts to conquer Hollywood on its own turf. He'd been an enormous star in early silent cinema, influencing the style of such subsequent silent comedy luminaries as Charles C. Read about The Three Must-Get-Theres / IMDB / YouTube

Rhubarb Vaseline lives in a small village, when he and his friend, Sapo, enter a bullfighting contest, Sapo dies, but Rhubarb kills three bulls and becomes a local hero earning money. Two years later, he is living in Madrid as a national hero, when he becomes involved with Filet de Sol, and his lover finds out, he must fight the deadliest in Spain, in the last bullfig. Info on Mud and Sand / IMDB / YouTube

The Headless Horseman is a 1922 fantasy / supernatural movie that tells Washington Irving's tale of the village's legendary ghost, a headless horseman who is said to be searching for the head that he lost in battle. Get info on The Headless Horseman / IMDB / YouTube

Boys playing back alley baseball improbably hold their afternoon game at the Polo Grounds. Felix the Cat takes action when his favored team seems poised to lose. Info on Felix Saves the Day / IMDB / YouTube

A bumbling sawmill employee tries to win the hand of the owner's daughter while staying out of the clutches of the mill's bullying foreman. Explore The Sawmill / IMDB / YouTube

A harried propman backstage at a theater must put up with malfunctioning wind machines, roosters that spit nitroglycerine, and a gang planning to rob the theater's payroll. Check out The Show / IMDB / YouTube

Felix the Cat becomes a soldier when the rats declare war on the cats. Details on Felix Turns the Tide / IMDB / YouTube

Felix lets a mouse out of a mousetrap. The mouse then offers to do Felix a favor--to help him sneak his friend out of the house so they can go swimming. Read about Felix in the Swim / IMDB / YouTube

Trudging through the snow in his hometown, Felix sees a billboard advertising sunny Egypt, and says that he'd give four of his nine lives to be there rather than freezing in the snow. He then hears crying coming from his friend Abdul's carpet shop, and it turns out that Abdul's girlfriend has been kidnapped by an Egyptian sheik. Felix promises to rescue her, and hops . Info on Felix Lends a Hand / IMDB / YouTube

After unsuccessfully trying to steal food from a fish market, Felix is promised by a man that if he watches the man's child, he will be fed a great meal. Unfortunately, the baby swallows a balloon and floats out the window, and Felix has to find him and bring him back before the man gets home. Read about Felix Minds the Kid / IMDB / YouTube