Movies

BUY NOW Charlie Chaplin in “A Day’s Pleasure” (1919) Buster Keton & Fatty Arbuckle in “The Bell Boy” (1918) Harold Lloyd in “High and Dizzy” (1921) With sound effects specialist Nick White, and accompaniment by Chicagoland’s premiere organist, Jay Warren, on Arcada’s historic 1926 pipe organ.

One of the most revered comedies of the silent era, this film finds hapless Southern railroad engineer Johnny Gray (Buster Keaton) facing off against Union soldiers during the American Civil War. When Johnny’s fiancée, Annabelle Lee (Marion Mack), is accidentally taken away while on a train stolen by Northern forces, Gray pursues the soldiers, using...

BUY NOW “Safety Last!” is likely the quintessential Harold Lloyd film, the one that seems to define his entire career, and the one that identifies him as chiefly a daredevil comedian.  The iconic image of Lloyd dangling from the hand of a giant clock on a tall building has become a part of the American...

BUY NOW A tramp (Charles Chaplin) breaks out of jail and chances upon the deserted robes of a clergyman. He dons the disguise and train-hops his way to a tiny Texas town, where the residents just happen to be awaiting the arrival of their new priest. The runaway convict is welcomed into the community with...

Come enjoy a baseball classic with the whole family! $5 admission at the door for adults, with 100% of proceeds going to St. Charles Youth Baseball. Children 12 & under are free!

The Beatles in their feature film debut, one of the greatest rock-and-roll comedy adventures ever! The film has a fully restored negative and digitally restored soundtrack. The film takes on the just-left-of-reality style of mock-documentary, following “a day in the life” of John, Paul, George, and Ringo as fame takes them by storm.

BUY NOW Based upon a summary in a film publication, Charlie (Fairbanks) has a girlfriend Estrell (De La Motte) who has a theory that if rich people would take a number of poor children into their homes each day, the environment would cause the children to grow up properly. Since Estrell does not know any...

BUY NOW “Our Hospitality” is a 1923 silent comedy film directed by and starring Buster Keaton. After her husband John McKay is killed in an ongoing feud with the Canfield family, a woman takes her baby boy Willie to her sister’s house in New York hoping he will never know of the feud with the...

ON SALE SOON Kid Boots is a 1926 American silent feature comedy film directed by Frank Tuttle, and based on the 1923 musical written by William Anthony McGuire and Otto Harbach. This was entertainer Eddie Cantor’s first film. After a bully helps him out of a jam, Samuel “Kid” Boots tries to return the favor...

BUY NOW The Gold Rush is a 1925 American comedy film written, produced, and directed by Charlie Chaplin. The film also stars Chaplin in his Little Tramp persona, Georgia Hale, Mack Swain, Tom Murray, Henry Bergman, and Malcolm Waite. Big Jim, a gold prospector during the Klondike Gold Rush, has just found an enormous gold...