ArtYard's Film Festival of Joy: Joy of Laughter

The Scarecrow

Comic genius Buster Keaton is a farmhand who shares a cottage full of ingenious gadgets with his rival for the farmer’s daughter. Hijinks ensue, including Keaton’s narrow escape from a “mad” dog, an inadvertent proposal, and a motorcycle wedding!

High and Dizzy

Newly-minted doctor Harold Lloyd gets roped into a friend’s moonshine business and ends up tipsy on a building ledge high above the street — where he encounters a sleepwalking patient.

Horse Shy

Ineffectual bumbler Edward Everett Horton makes a hilarious attempt to learn to ride a horse in a fox hunt, in order to impress the daughter of his host.

Pass The Gravy

A hilarious comedy about rival fathers who must make peace when their children get engaged. Everything goes awry when comedian Max Davidson’s son cooks the beloved prize-winning rooster belonging to the other father for a joint family dinner.

Tickets are $15; visit artyard.org.