Keystone Comedies: Volume 1

First up in this collection of Mack Sennett Keystone silent comedies, Chester Conklin decides "A Bird's a Bird" (1915) after he loses the money he needs to buy his own turkey for a family dinner; Tom Kennedy stars in "His Luckless Love" (1915), which offers plenty of laughs over the confusion concerning a maid's new boyfriend; Syd Chaplin (Charlie's brother) stars in "A Lover's Lost Control" (1916), about a comic trip he and wife Phyllis Allen take to a department store; Conklin secretly falls for a showgirl, in "Droppington's Family Tree" (1916); and "Her Torpedoed Love" (1924) sends cook Louise Fazenda into mirth-filled mayhem over a huge inheritance. 110 min. total. Standard; Soundtrack: music score. Silent with music score.