Movies: Buddy Messinger

A mother raises her six children and one by one lets them go out into the world. Their failures and successes fill her life, but she grows lonely without them. Then when one of the children has a surprise to announce, they all return home to be with ...

A habitual gambler comes to the aid of a desperate woman after her daughter inherits a fortune and is underhandedly taken by her estranged father....

In Bagdad, Princess Badr al-Budur, the daughter of the Sultan, falls in love with Aladdin, the son of a poor tailor, and rejects the suit of evil alchemist al-Talib, her father's choice. Al-Talib consults his Evil Spirit, who advises him to find the ...

Ali Baba, a poor Turkish wood chopper, discovers that a robbers' cave, concealed in the mountains that surround his house, opens to the magical phrase, "Open Sesame." Learning that the cave is filled with stolen treasure, he takes home as much as he ...

Jane Coleridge and Peter Jamison are a pair of small town sweethearts. She's an old-fashioned girl and he's timid, but he manages to get up the nerve to propose and asks her to run away with him. Unfortunately, around the time Jane's supposed to meet...

A snooping reporter at a college newspaper angers a rival sorority, so they steal a statue before its unveiling to get revenge, leading to a sorority vs. sorority brawl. Co-eds end up tearing each other's clothes off....

Thelma volunteers Patsy as a subject for her friend who is in dental school and needs somebody to practice on....

Buddy, an office-boy in a newspaper plant, puts on long trousers to get a man's-size job on the paper, and impress his girl. His brother, a reporter, is sent to write a story on a mysterious eye that has been terrorizing the neighborhood, sending wom...

The story of Edgar Pomeroy, the first in a series, in which the boy Edgar imagines himself the triumphant master of his fate, revenging himself on a scornful young female classmate. But then the real events are seen in contrast with the ones Edgar ha...

Edgar buys a badge and a book of instructions and starts to learn the detective business. When he and his chum accompany his uncle's hired hand and his girl to town on a load of hay, and learn that a stop at the minister's means a marriage and not a ...

On the way to Sunday school, Edgar meets the lady of his heart--and his hated rival. The Sunday-school lesson on David and Goliath so intrigues Edgar that he sees himself as David, saving the entire school, sweetheart and rival included, from Goliath...

Edgar and his schoolmates put on a production of Shakespeare's Hamlet such as the townsfolk have never seen....

Edgar is called upon by his mother to execute a disagreeable errand, has to mind his troublesome younger brother, and runs away....

Edgar delivers a cake to his sister's ill friend. The cake arrives safely, but not sound, and Edgar is taken to task for his careless handling of the article....

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Two henpecked men run off and pretend to be athletic trainers in order to get jobs in a weight loss club for women. The Sunkist Bathing Beauties are featured performers....

Girls’ school hazing leads to human and animal drag. (MoMA)...

Edgar from the city goes to visit his country cousin and at once begins to impress him and his gang with the superiority of life and ways in the city. His brave effort to go barefoot "like we do in the city" causes him much pain, and everything he at...

A Sunkist Comedy...

Episode 11 of the series of 2-reel comedies “The Adventures and Emotions of Edgar Pomeroy”....