Noah Young

When a store clerk organizes a contest to climb the outside of a tall building, circumstances force him to make the perilous climb himself. (imdb)

A young man in New York has exasperated his father because of his constant carousing and irresponsibility, so his father sends him to his uncle's ranch in the west. The young man arrives in the town of Piute Pass, which is being terrorized by Tiger Lip Tompkins and his gang, the Masked Angels. The Easterner befriends a young woman whose father is being held captive by Tompkins, and he decides to help her. (imdb)

The young couple have decided to marry and it is time to ask the father for the hand of his daughter. Problem is, the father does not want to give the daughter away. So every time he goes to the office to ask the father, he is tossed out. He is ejected over and over, by different methods, while the girl waits and waits. (imdb)

Soft spoken Lloyd tries to prove he's not a coward and woo his dream girl by tracking down a vagrant.

Playwrite Lloyd tries to get his show on Broadway.

The Uptown Boy, J. Harold Manners (Lloyd) is a millionaire playboy who falls for the Downtown Girl, Hope (Ralston) who works in Brother Paul's (Weigel) mission. In order to build up attendance, and win Hope's attention, Harold runs through town causing trouble, and winds up with a crowd chasing him right into the mission. He eventually wins the girl and they marry, but not without some interference from his high-brow friends. (imdb)

A rich bachelor joins the Navy to prove himself to the father of the girl he loves.

Harold Bledsoe, a botany student, is called back home to San Francisco, where his late father had been police chief, to help investigate a crime wave in Chinatown. (imdb)

Jimmy Jump is a cracked reporter at a behind-the-times daily newspaper. He also happens to be in love with the managing editor's daughter. It's Monday, April 1st and the paper's editorial staff has a great deal of trouble telling the difference between April Fool's jokes and real events.

Comic adventures of newlyweds and children. (imdb)

An American book salesman (Lloyd) is persuaded to go to the kingdom of Thermosa to impersonate the Prince. He is greeted by a peasants' revolt before the real prince shows up to claim his throne and princess. The revolution succeeds and the American is elected president of the new republic. (imdb)

An escaped convict is out to kill the judge who sentenced him. Two inept detectives are hired to guard the judge. (imdb)

Rich oil tycoon (Finlayson) awakens one morning, after a night of carousing, to be told that he was married the night before. (imdb)

A nervy young man follows a pretty lady into a diner to flirt with her, but winds up getting stuck with the tab. (imdb)

After a wild bachelor party, our hero finds himself aboard a sailing vessel where he encounters numerous adventures. In a dream sequence, he fantasizes that the ship is seized by a band of female pirates. (imdb)

Harold and his rival fight over Bebe on her birthday, first at her home and then at a nearby skating rink. (imdb)

As a group of traveling players are about to arrive at the opera house where they have their next engagement, the manager of the house is in the process of venting his frustrations with his crew. Harold, one of the stage hands, takes a liking to one of the dancers, and he willingly helps her with her baggage - until he realizes that one of her props is a live snake, which causes turmoil when he allows it to get loose. Then, when the show begins, Harold ends up causing further disruptions. (imdb)

"At the Ringside" is filmed in a "slum" which is rather obviously a studio mock-up on the Hal Roach back lot, and it clearly copies the Lambeth-style slum in Chaplin's "Easy Street" (which was also a too-obvious mock-up). The first half of this film is a blatant copy of "Easy Street". Pollard plays the local constable, charged with maintaining order in the tough slum district. (imdb)

Like many a Snub Pollard comedy, "Years to Come" is a complete flight of fancy. In this one, it is the year 2000, and the roles of women and men have been completely reversed. That's where almost all the jokes come from. (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)

Stan is a lazy employee at a lumber company. Much of the first portion of the film has to do with Stan trying to sneak into work late--past the violent and rather insane supervisor. Later, however, Stan walks into a plot to steal the company away and frame the owner for a crime he did not commit. (youtube.com)

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)

In this short, Will Rogers introduces and concludes the movie. And, then, he acts in different fake versions of highlights from famous movies--such as Douglas Fairbanks as ROBIN HOOD, the bull fighting scene from BLOOD AND SAND as well as a recreation of a KEYSTONE COPS short. (imdb)

This Hal Roach comedy short, Tire Trouble, is the twenty-second entry in the "Our Gang/Little Rascals" series. In this one, Mickey drives his own makeshift car with Mary, Joe, and Jackie in tow. Among the unusual gadgets: a boxing glove attached to the outside front that knocks out any passersby! When they stop where Sunshine Sammy and Farina are standing, Sammy gets punched by that glove twice and also gets hit by the front grille that moves! (imdb)

The story is pretty simple as the kids pretend to be hunting a variety of animals when they're invited to a farm where they try to capture real game. This gets boring after a while so they decide to try and track a bear but soon it's the bear stalking them. (imdb)

A Wrestler and his ex-Wife (Noah Young and Fay Holderness) try to con a recently-discharged Sailor (Clyde Cook) out of 4 years' pay. When they learn that he lost the money in a 'shell game', they put him to work in the hazardous job of a High Steel Worker, and insure him against accident, then try to see that he has one. (imdb)

Ask Grandma is a 1925 short silent comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan. It was the 39th Our Gang short subject released. (en.wikipedia.org)

Jamison has a very jealous wife. Mrs. Jamison has a very gossipy friend. When the friend spots Jamison on the street talking to an attractive young woman, she reports back to Mrs. Jamison that her husband is obviously having an affair. Mrs. Jamison storms out, and a few minutes later a guest arrives for a visit -- a Professor Brown. Jamison doesn't realize the professor is a woman, and Mrs. Jamison, who has returned, doesn't realize the woman is Professor Brown. (imdb)

The main premise for the comedy is the Jimmy discovers he can convince people he is a tough figure to be reckoned with merely by giving them a business card identifying him as the bouncer of the "Bucket of Blood Cafe." (imdb)

Hear 'Em Rave is a 1918 short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd.

Chop Suey & Co. is a 1919 short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd.

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.

Jimmy always fantasied about racing. But now he has to pay the mortgage before noon or else he won't own his shop any longer. (imdb)

Charley's boss insists that Charley come along with him. After all, the boss is stepping out with a woman and he's married and wants Charley along to provide cover. So, if they are caught, the wife will think the young woman is Charley's girl. Once there, he gets pulled into an attempt by a lady to make her husband (Noah Young) jealous. And, when the wife AND Charley's girlfriend arrive, things really heat up. (imdb)

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)

The girls find a pair of steamship tickets, not knowing that the cabin the tickets are for is inhabited by a gorilla. (imdb)

Snub Pollard comedy directed by Charley Chase and produced by Hal Roach.

Stan is Phillip McCann, a gas station attendant who arrives at his job by chauffeur and donning a fur coat over his work clothes. After being dropped off, he puts his sign on the doorframe and wanders off to a nearby cafe where waitress Katherine Grant serves him an egg, medium rare, and a cup of tea, well done....

Boland plays a slipshod plumber on roller skates who, trying to fix some pipes, blows himself into a fantasy world where he is mistaken for a prince and everything is named after food items.

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

In this two-reeler, Jimmy Jump wants to please both of his parents, but they disagree about everything. His father wants him to act more manly, although Jimmy gets his sensitivity from his mother. He wants to wed his girlfriend, and so accepts a job at his father's iron foundry, but does not excel there. Next, Jimmy goes to a tough dance-hall to impress his girl. A highlight is his parody of an Isadora Duncan dance. (imdb)

A very rich old man promises to leave his extended family his fortune if they all move in together and get along for one year.

A man tries to win over the daughter of his boss.

A car salesman wants to get married but has to make one last sell first.

A man tries to help his wife getting famous.

A man starts working in a department store and has to deal with a female kleptomaniac.

Jimmie Jump is returning from Europe to the USA. His parents and an old girl-friend, Sally - whom he hasn't seen for years, are expecting him at the dock. But, due to some unfortunate coincidences they are mistaken about the identity of each other, but meet unbeknownst to that fact. Jimmie decides that he has to find that girl. Finally, after having annoyed a policeman, and a great fraction of the female population, he finds her working as a temperance worker. (imdb)

Snub goes butterfly hunting in Grffith Park and catches Marie Mosquini by accident. They go to a café where all the men have a lot of hair on their faces and the usual mischief ensues.

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.

Two rival bicycle messengers are sent to the same location: a wealthy artist's estate populated with attractive models.

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.

James Parrott having a lot of pets destroying the place.

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.

When Papa tells son Malcolm the story of the first Thanksgiving, Malcolm imagines the tale with his father in the role of "John Alldone" and his mother as "Prisilly."

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

Clyde Cook is a traveling handyman who whitewashes farm barns and he flirts with the wife of a jealous farmer. The husband sees this and takes off after Clyde who runs into an army recruiting station and enlists. The highly-offended farmer also enlists and the chase continues across several army posts.

Fifi, (Mryna Loy), a dusky, sultry Senegalese spy, uses her wiles to get information out of two American army soldiers, Ham, (Tom Wilson), and Eggs, (Heinie Conklin), in France during World War One.

Charley has several dilemmas facing him at Christmas, all posed by his greedy, heartless landlord Noah and his family. He wants to get an expensive wristwatch for his wife, but his landlord takes it, then his other presents are switched with Noah's, and then both have a back and forth battle for a long white beard for their Santa costumes.

Harold Lloyd takes a trolley with Snub behind the wheel and Bebe collecting the tickets.

At Thanksgiving, a tramp arrives in a homeless-hostile town.

A pawn-shop employee who looks like a robot must substitute for it after it becomes damaged. (imdb)

A young barber's girlfriend falls into the clutches of a shady nightclub owner and his cohorts, who plan to get her involved in their nefarious schemes. When his efforts to rescue her prove futile, he enlists the help of his father, who was at one time a professional baseball player, and his former teammates to save her.

Snub and his wife give up their bungalow and allow another couple to move in. Then it develops that they can't find another home, and must live in an improvised tent.

On a farm in zero degree weather, Snub, the hired hand, attempts to keep warm and to keep the farm's deed out of the hands of rogues.

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

Snub, the chauffeur of a suddenly prosperous family, beats the butler to the hand of the pretty heiress. Then Snub's family shows up.

A young married couple (Glenn Tryon and Blanche Mehaffey) with no money and lots of time for fighting try to impress the husbands boss.

Snub, as a member of the London police force, is assigned to a neighborhood where a terrific free-for-all battle is taking place. After the struggle is snuffed out by a particularly belligerent chap who wades into the crowd and sends its members into the land of twittering birdies with an assortment of right and left-handed blows, Snub steps forth and accepts credit for the feat.

'Snub' Pollard on a boat.

An unconventional super detective (Snub) pursues a trio of crooks who've stolen the fortune of his girlfriend's father. Along the way, absurd things happen like he's tricked into trailing a cow and he enters a cross-country foot race.