Billy Franey Movies

"The Sleuth" (1921) is a short silent comedy film produced by Reelcraft Pictures Corporation and starred by comic actor Billy Franey as part of his...

Billy Franey does home brew. "The Janitor" was made during Prohibition, when ANY gags about alcohol (especially the home-brewed variety) would get...

A cowboy discovers that his stock is all but worthless due to the bankruptcy of a ranch owner. The supposedly worthless stock certificate bears the...

The circus arrives in Great Shows. Rainey Big Ben and Kit Denton, the star of the show, are informed that no representation will be allowed in the...

Brad Henderson arrives in Star City just in time to witness three men rob a bank of $30,000 and kill a teller. Charged for the crime and jailed, Brad...

A train known as the Iron Mule is loaded with passengers, and starts off on its trip. Along the way, the train faces numerous obstacles and delays....

Acting on a tip from former stage actress Fern Madden, who is now working as a movie extra, Jimmy Burke, a Hollywood reporter, publishes an article...

53rd episode of RKO's "Mr. Average Man" Series starring Edgar Kennedy.

Jim Warren is starting a range war by getting his boss Duke Bradley to fence off part of the range used by other ranchers. This pits father against...

Clark & McCullough are arrested for disturbing the peace. They steal the police car and return it to the station. The new police commissioner...

Having struck it rich, two prospectors return to town, where one of them is to be married while the other will serve as best man. But on the eve of...

Quincy Adams Sawyer is a young attorney who one day meets a girl in the park and is immediately smitten with her.

A slapstick comedy about a hobo and his moonshine.

Virginia Dean enjoys a yachting trip with her father. She falls in love with the captain of the boat, John Reynolds. A gang of criminals has stowed...

Edgar is a census taker, but is primarily interested in finding a rich widow for his father-in-law (Billy Franey), so he won't have to continue to...

Gale, the Village Schoolmarm, wants to marry Ezekial Brown, but her Uncle objects to the match.

The widow lives in a houseboat near one of the beaches. Charley is her devoted lover, but his bashfulness prevents him from proposing. She has a...

Bluford H. Smythe, who has made it big in the big city, has returned to his small hometown of Glenwood after being away for twenty years....

A scatterbrained heiress opens her home to a succession of unemployed actors and vaudeville performers, then decides to produce her own show, much to...