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Eddie suspects his wife of having an affair with Snub. Snub, meanwhile, just wants to get to work on time. (imdb)

A diver is aided in his search for sunken treasure by beautiful mermaids. (imdb)

A 'Snub' Pollard & Marie Mosquini slapstick comedy.

The gang forms a fire department; they end up thwarting a bootlegger, but not before their pet animals get drunk on his moonshine. (imdb)

Paul Parrott plays an obsessive-compulsive bill poster in this thoroughly average Hal Roach comedy from 1923. Hired to help publicize a new Gloria Snootful picture, Paul goes bonkers with glue and paper and ends up attaching promotional material to any surface within his reach, including the rear ends of a number of people, though his attempt to nail a poster to a glass window is somewhat less successful. (imdb)

Collars and Cuffs is a 1923 silent comedy film starring Stan Laurel. (en.wikipedia.org)

Pick and Shovel, also known as The Miner, is a 1923 silent comedy film starring Stan Laurel. (en.wikipedia.org)

"Scorching Sands" is clearly not a P.C. Wren spoof. It was released a year before the novel "Beau Geste" was published and three years before the movie with Ronald Colman was produced. Instead, it's an overt parody of Ouida's "Under Two Flags." This novel had already been filmed several times by the time Stan Laurel spoofed it and audiences would have had no trouble recognizing the source of his parody. Here Laurel finds himself torn between a society lady and a sweetheart of the Legion. (imdb)

A feckless young man who wishes to switch from one streetcar to another is told to follow a pretty young lady-- so he follows her all over town. (imdb)

Pursued by the law, a street cleaner finds refuge by impersonating a dentist. (imdb)

Stan plays a waiter at a crappy restaurant and frankly such fare was better done by Chaplin and others. However, in two cute scenes, the film shines. The first is a Limburger cheese bit that is low-brow but funny. The second is the final scene with dogs following Stan at the end. (imdb)

Well executed but unexceptional one-reeler about a couple of incompetent paperhangers. James Parrott, brother of Charley Chase, was an equally skilled man behind the camera, later writing and directing some of Roach's best two-reelers, before he died too young, but while the gags here are well done, he never really developed much of a personality in these pieces and they are not, somehow, quite as sharp as the stuff he was co-starring in with Sid Saylor two or three years before. (imdb)

Laurel portrays a commercial traveller, hawking a patent medicine cried Professor I.O. Dine's Knox-All: that name is the funniest joke in this movie, which ain't sayin' much. I should point out that this movie dates from 1923, the shank of Prohibition. During Prohibition, quite a lot of Americans purchased patent medicine if it had (ahem!) 'medicinal' properties, so -- if Knox-All contains alcohol. (imdb)

A parody version of "Rupert of Hentzau" (a version of "The Prisoner of Zenda") with Stan Laurel in the lead.

Inventor Ignatius Pollard develops a new "Pavement Polisher" to clean the streets, but a demonstration of the device does not go as planned. (imdb)

During the Alaska gold rush, a miner hits the mother lode, but a corrupt sheriff jumps his claim, leading to a tremendous fight. (imdb)

Earl Mohan and Billy Engle are paired in a Mutt & Jeff-style comedy.

Paul's career as a shoeshine man is interrupted when he is mistaken for an escaped convict, but after the Station Master gives him a job at the train station he proves his worth. (imdb)

This funny Hal Roach comedy has Jimmy Jump (Charley Chase) waking up late for his wedding so in the mad rush he ends up leaving his house only dressed in his pajamas. As he makes his way to the church he finds one disaster after another. (imdb)

Hal Roach short is a spoof of the 1923 Western COVERED WAGON, which was a huge hit for Paramount. In this film a group of people are heading out West to Hollywood so they pack up their "wagons" and head out where they must battle various elements including crossing a dangerous river and battling Indians. The "wagons" are actually cars with a cover on them and the Indians even ride in on bicycles so you can tell the type of humor that Roach is going for.

In the trembling Russian village of Popoffski, a young woman (Katherine Grant) is wooed by a hopeful lover, the son of a humble pool shark (Stan) right under the very nose of her father. When the man proposes marriage to her the father is happy to let her go, seeing as he has nine other children to worry about. As the couple celebrate their love for one another they are approached by a military officer who threatens to take the woman away to use as a court dancer.

SHOOT STRAIGHT - starring Paul Parrott, with Jobyna Ralston, Eddie Baker and George Rowe. A rarely-seen comedy short. Parrott is a hapless hunter in this predecessor to Tex Avery toons of the 1940s, and in a series of inventive gag sequences fails to capture squirrel, rabbit, chinchilla, bobcat, duck, and bear all in one reel.

LOOSE CHANGE - starring Jack Duffy and Neal Burns, with Lorriane Eddy, Winnie Law, and Glen Cavender. A young woman decides to vamp her friend's husbands visiting Scottish uncle, but her scheme to trick him into marrying him backfires when her own husband catches on.

The owners of a movie studio are having problems with a temperamental director, and they promise an actor on one of his pictures that he can have the job if he can find a way to make the director leave the picture. (imdb)

As a way to make peace between two feuding Scottish clans, one invites the other over for supper, but things don't turn out quite as expected. (imdb)

The Golf Bug,1922, directed by James D. Davis, starring James "Paul" Parrott and Jobyna Ralston, is a short silent comedy film.

Run 'Em Ragged, Snub Pollard's 39th starring vehicle, uses familiar Mack Sennett slapstick--over-the-top make-up, ethnic humor, and a Keystone Cops-style chase across Los Angeles's Echo Park. But there is more here than knockabout. Sophisticated sight gags test the limits of the characters' perception, making expert use of such props as a seemingly bottomless rowboat.

Charley has in-laws that look down on him because he's not rich. So, to try to keep up, he rushes out to buy a car--but no matter, they still think he's a drip--as does his wife. Later, when he's given a simple job to do by his boss, he screws it up--and loses face once again with his family. (imdb)

A James Parrott comedy short.

An Arrow comedy directed by Eddie Lyons from Aug 1923, co-starring Glen Cavender, Ruth Hiatt and Art Rowlands.

Paul Parrott comedy produced by Hal Roach.

A top-hatted bill collector is given the unenviable assignment of collecting the debts of a bad-tempered innkeeper.

The comical, classic movie of the big city misadventures of Little Casino.

While his wife is shopping, Snub attempts to take a fifteen minute break. (imdb)

While attempting to hunt a formidable Peruvian Duck, Snub Pollard and Ernest Morrison inadvertently come to the aid of a kidnapped tourist.

Snooky the Chimpanzee help out a melancholy little girl and her guardian.

Captain Dandy (Snub Pollard) is about to sail and arrives on the dock where several women take turns to individually say goodbye to him (the last one even wrestles him to the ground) before he boards the ship.

After being ejected from an establishment for being drunk and disorderly, George Rowe, Sammy Brooks, Hughie Mack and Snub Pollard form a drunken singing quartet in the street before a car comes and takes Sammy and George away, leaving the other two staggering in the road. Snub and Hughie agree to go somewhere "where there are no wives, landlords or prohibitionists", and so three months later they emerge on a prairie with supplies dwindling.

'Snub' Pollard in a lot of wedding problems.

An auto accident hurls Snub into a skating rink, where he encounters Rowe and Marie. Among the various slip-and-falling going on, two frisky escaped monkeys from a show put on skates to join in and create pandemonium.

Snub is an street sweeper with OCD, living in a neighborhood full of fussy people. He is sweeping the street when he anticipates a cop who is about to throw some litter into the road and dashes over to catch it in his cart. He then tries to save a drunken man from falling into the road before stopping his cart to pick up a solitary leaf which has dared to fallen upon the ground.

A couple of old guys remembering the old days when courting Marie Mosquini.

Eddie Boland & Ethel Broadhurst on a road trip encountering gypsies.

James Parrott having a lot of pets destroying the place.

The setting is a shoe store and the action is pretty frenetic. You get to see Paul lose the store's money, catch a shoe thief, knock down a bunch of shelves and more.

'Snub' Pollard wants to hang himself but figures joining the circus was better idea.

James Parrott, little Sammy Brooks, Baker and Jones ("the strong guy" = the drunk) are all workers on a construction-sit run by violent and exploitative boss Noah Young and it is a "building a skyscraper" comedy.

'Snub' Pollard is an local actor getting a big break in the movie industry, coming home to show off his fame.

At the Second Annual Athletic Meet, "The Fat Men's Race" is open to anybody ~ under a ton and a half... The entries are 'Hippo' (Loback) and 'Rhino' (Parrott) who get on the scales to be weighed. Rhino is assisted by extra padding and a third leg supplied by Wallace Howe on the scales in an attempt to boost his weight. The judge spots his attempts to cheat and orders Rhino to carry extra weight in order to qualify for the race so he is stuffed with filled sacks.

Umbrella Salesman helps a musician and his daughter.

This film is set in a small Irish town and mostly concerns James Finlayson's attempts to marry a young lady against her will. Nice guy, Stan Laurel, tries to help out but gets thrown in jail for his trouble. What happens next you'll just need to see for yourself.

Willy Worst (Stan Laurel) is turning a local post office upside down and stirs up ill-feelings when trying to send a letter in POSTAGE DUE, a short produced by Hal Roach and directed by a former Keystone Kop.

An old man asks a lawyer to find his missing daughter and a grandson (who turns out to be a very extravagant young man). Starring Stan Laurel (in two roles) and his common-law wife Mae Dahlberg (aka Mae Laurel).

James Parrott & Ernest Morrison gets chased around a lot. Filmed in 1921 and copyrighted in 1922, but not released until 1926.

A morals reformer returns from Hollywood to his small town, and shows his fellow citizens the results of his investigation.

The comedy revolves about a summer hotel where the proprietor expects a Prince from India. The Prince appears, and proves to be first-rate second-story man. Then the real Prince arrives and the uproarious comedy moments commence, leading to the bearding of the impostor.