Comedian Charley Chase was a consistent box-office money and fun-maker for Producer Hal Roach during the Silent and Sound Eras. Volume One is the beginning of the first comprehensive collection of Chase's Hal Roach talkie comedies, culled from 1930-31, years in which many of his films featured Charley's frequent leading lady the lovely and vivacious Thelma Todd, later a Hal Roach star too.