Earl Montgomery

Larry Semon produces his take on a typical Keystone farce, the flirting-in-the-park routine, where pretty Florence Curtis is pursued by four typical Keystone types: the wealthy geezer, the mustachioed Italian, the derby-wearing tough and, of course, the big-footed cop.... and here comes Larry, if not to save the day, at least to make us laugh. (imdb)

This is a comedy starring a forgotten comic, Lige Conley. It's made by Educational Pictures. The film is full of lots of action--lots. In particular, there were some crazy stunts involving airplanes. (imdb)

The plot of this film really isn't that important. Instead, the sight gags and chase scenes are paramount--with some of the most impressive chase footage you'll ever see. All the near-misses with the speeding train were amazing and the scene where the car gets smashed by the truck are absolutely priceless. (imdb)

Golf, we discover in this early Semon short, is a game that is played by striking a croquet ball with a hockey stick and seeing how many times it can hit Larry Semon. (imdb)

In the knockabout one-reeler set in a dance studio, three suitors compete for the girl. James Aubrey, the actor playing the father's preferred suitor, may look like a Chaplin imitator, but he came by those skills honorably. Nevertheless it's Alice Mann, with her wacky headdress and knowing glance, who steals the show. Suffice it to say that many vases are broken and pants ripped before she escapes out the window with the handsomest of the beaus.

A farce in which a man comes home drunk, and locks himself in to avoid his angry wife. He then starts hallucinating, and a thief also tries to break in.

"Risks and Roughnecks" is an early Larry Semon effort with outrageously funny acrobatics as takes care of business in a big brawl.

It's still very early days for Larry Semon with this chaos-in-a-cheap-restaurant comedy. It's clearly modeled on what was going on at Keystone. Hughie Mack is doing Arbuckle, Jimmy Aubrey is wearing a Ford Sterling look and his angry persona, and I think I see an Al St. John type. They even do the broom slapping routine.

Joe Rock and Earl Montgomery are a couple of delapidated swells who want to get inside Max Asher's school for dancing ladies, where they are practicing the Dance of the Seven Veils.

Baby Peggy is joined by her star-making partner, Brownie the Wonder Dog and is in a circus as a junior clown.

Unlucky Larry finds himself pursued by the police after he inadvertently steals a man's car and kidnaps his girlfriend.