Meet The Mayor aka A Fool's Advice
A town's corrupt officials think a fool is actually an investigator in disguise.
An inventor looking for backing for his television invention gets involved with a crooked businessman and gangsters who try to steal his invention.
Swindlers con a lunchroom clerk into doing them a favor, supposedly on behalf of the FBI.
An ambitious coat-room checker impersonates an English nobleman.
A dance teacher from Boston (Charles Collins) is tricked into joining a band of pirates, which leads to him being fitted for a noose in California. He catches a break when the mayor's daughter demands…
A young girl visits her grandfather, who owns an auto repair shop. She falls in love with his handsome assistant, who is also an engineer trying to talk the town banker into financing his plans to har…
Corrupt town officials mistake a simpleton for an undercover investigator.
An overeager man tries to impress the girl he loves by becoming a salesman for the Earthworm Tractor Company, with disastrous yet hilarious results.
The jumpy chess editor at a newspaper accidentally gets involved in some murders at a sleazy tavern run by a pair of bizarre brothers.
A runaway countess meets a charming impostor aboard a train, sparking romance and deception.
A songwriter hires three chorus girls to show him the "underside" of big-city life.
Shirley helps her idealistic architect father get his dream of a slum-clearance project; the little miss dances with Bill "Bojangles" Robinson. Based on Paul Gerard Smith's book "Lucky Penny."
In order to get even with the pompous president of a soap company, an eccentric genius goes on his quiz show in order to bankrupt his company.
A nervous, woman-shy office clerk, already troubled by an amorous female co-worker, must suddenly deal with a very forward and attractive young woman who has sneaked into his apartment and doesn't wan…
Among the struggling residents of a theatrical boarding-house is luckless Eric, scion of an acting dynasty. Due to an offer to star as ÇHamlet' he takes lessons from a faded actor and scores a huge hi…
Victims of oppressive town boss Honey are offered help by an unusual alliance of gunmen and circus performers.
A crotchety, old ex-attorney solves the violent theft of a priceless diamond from his nephew.
An embattled attorney fights to topple corrupt town officials by running for mayor, and is aided by a visiting stranger, who's actually a vacationing Supreme Court justice, John Josephus Grant.
A young man impersonates his best friend, and in doing so upsets the decorum at a stuffy family gathering and falls in love. The arrival of a gang of hoodlums further disrupts the formalities, but our…
An ambitious shoe salesman pretends to be a tycoon and gets into trouble building to a famous high-rise finale.
Kindly soup kitchen operator and professor of criminology Karl Wagner uses his soup kitchen as a front for a gang who commit a series of daring robberies and murders. When things get out of hand, Wagn…
A retired safe cracker is recruited by a young conman to return to the "business" for a million dollar heist.
When his rebellious middle child marries a poor plumber on a whim, the father of three adult daughters must somehow hold onto his sanity.
A newspaper publisher is being blackmailed by a burlesque queen, and he sends one of his reporters to talk to her. The girl is murdered and the reporter, the publisher and the publisher's daughter al…