Sammy Brooks

After numerous failed attempts to commit suicide, our hero (Lloyd) runs into a lawyer who is looking... (imdb)

The mining town of Peaceful Vale is a rough place, and sheriff 'Gun Shy' Gallagher can do little about it, since the town is ruled by Crooked Charley, the gambler. Charley runs Pierre the tavern keeper out of town, and takes Pierre's daughter Nell as his prisoner. But when Billy Blazes sees Charley's henchmen harassing Pierre, he rescues Pierre and then proceeds to confront Charley back at the tavern. (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)

Little more than a demonstration of physical violence, and Harold and Snub try to slap each other to death, Bud Jamison gets beaten on the head by policemen with Billy clubs, and even Bebe gets her foot stepped on. (IMDB Comments)

The beginning of the film you find Harold Lloyd playing his "Lonesome Luke" character. Out of the blue, Lloyd decides he's going to join the navy and you really wonder if part of the film leading to it is missing. After all, the decision seemed to come from no where and why Snub Pollard would also join is unclear. And, oddly, they seem to skip all training and are stationed on a navy ship. (imdb)

MOVIE MUDDLE begins showing Luke as the owner of a movie theater that shows Pathé (the company that produced this short) films. He does everything--sells tickets, takes tickets, shows people to their seats. His only partners are the piano player and the bumbling projectionist, played by the great Snub Pollard. When a girl enters (Bebe Daniels), Luke's flirting gets the best of him. The film gets jammed, and via a smoking (literally) patron, the audience rushes out thinking there's a fire. (imdb)

Our hero saves a man from drowning, only to find that it is the wrong man. (imdb)

After finding a note in a floating bottle, our hero is off to resue the heroine. He runs into a tribe of cannibals.

Our hero is a police officer who gets involved in a crap game, flirting with a nurse and other amusements. (imdb)

In order to get his daughter away from her suitors, father decides to spirit her away to Bermuda. Our hero, however, stows away on the ship. When discovered, he is credited with catching a crook, thus winning a reward . . . and the girl. (imdb)

In this early short Harold Lloyd sneaks into a movie studio in order to locate an attractive young lady he's just met at a snack bar. He's retrieved a letter she dropped and wants to return it to her, but it's pretty clear that his interest extends beyond mere politeness.The movie studio setting provides Harold with lots of opportunities to do what comedians do in comedies like this one: flirt with actresses, anger the studio brass, and dash through sets disrupting everything. (imdb)

Why Pick on Me? is a 1918 short comedy film starring Harold Lloyd. (en.wikipedia.org)

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)

Next Aisle Over is a 1919 American short comedy film starring Harold Lloyd. (en.wikipedia.org)

Many of the scenes in "On the Fire" seem to be direct copies from Arbuckle's earlier "Waiter's Ball." Such similarities as trying to kill a fish with a gun hopping around out of water, the tossing of the food to the waiters, and several other scenes seem to be carbons of Arbuckle's film. (imdb)

Snub Pollard and his friend are clearly under their wives thumbs. But his grandfather turns up and tells them to assert themselves, which they do. Her father is not impressed. (youtube.com)

Harold and Snub wind up at Bebe's place of business and start making a mess.... but Bebe still wins. (imdb)

Snub plays a rich guy who wants to impress the ladies with his virility. So he pays a tough boxer to take a dive in a staged fight, though the fight definitely does not go anything like expected. (imdb)

The film begins with a girl who is supposedly irresistible to all men. Several guys all come to her to pledge their undying love--including Harold Lloyd's brother, Gaylord. Shortly after this, a new dentist (Snub Pollard) arrives to work in an office across the hall. In a very funny scene, Pollard manages to steal all of Gaylord's patients from his waiting room. However, when it comes to dental work, Snub is highly unlikely to receive the American Dental Association's seal of approval. (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)

Mickey and Jackie feud over Mary, so Sammy schedules a championship bout between the two rivals. (imdb)

Stan is in the company of ladies in this film. He is serving in the military with female officers, but there is also a demure lady who wins his affections. (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)

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)

"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)

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.

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.

Charley Chase is a hapless inventor with a better mouse trap in this silent comedy from 1925. (imdb)

The kids from Our Gang have to attend a wedding, and they bring along their flea collection--which gets loose. (imdb)

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)

Luke runs the coat-check concession at the White Light Cafe. (imdb)

Count Your Change is a 1919 short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd.

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

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.

Harold Lloyd & 'Snub' Pollard out among the wild life....

Casper is the baby-expert at a large department store and his life is less than peaceful as he provides much amusement for the babies at his own expense. On Sunday, he and his wife go on a picnic with the neighbors and hoe comes home on his day of rest with three traffic tickets and numerous stings from the hornets he failed to amuse. (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)

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)

In pre-historic times (dream sequence), our hero, in a loin cloth, battles other cavemen over the opposite sex. (imdb)

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 shy cowboy is interested in the local school teacher, but must compete with a bully for her attention. (imdb)

Paul Parrott comedy produced by Hal Roach.

Charley, frustrated by his office job, quarrels with his wife, after which they decide to switch jobs. She goes to the office and Charley does the housework. Having never done something like this in his life before, he starts a chaos, something his mother-in-law was expecting... (imdb)

In this 1922 Pathe-distributed, Hal Roach silent-era comedy, the owner of a local streetcar business is in danger of losing his franchise, but the streetcar operator (played by Paul Parrott) and his girl friend (who happens to be the boss's daughter; portrayed by Jobyna Ralston) try to save the day.

A female secret agent has gotten ahold of a new type of explosive gas. She has to avoid the efforts of two men who are trying to steal it. They succeed in doing so, but the gas turns out to be not quite what they expected. (imdb)

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

Paul (James Parrott) is practicing the art of being a cowboy. He consults a book before firing his gun, climbing onto a saddle on top of a chair and then falling off and dressing his wounds. He then gets back on his 'saddle' and fires his gun again, this time in the direction of another man (whom I believe to be Wallace Howe) who has just entered the room. Paul leaves abruptly and rides into town on a horse, and straight through a crowded saloon.

Sailor 'Snub' Pollard on 'beach leave'.

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.

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.

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

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.

Courtroom comedy with Eddie Boland as Judge.

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.

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.

Two young lovers (Glenn Tryon and Blanche Mehaffey) are at home when a policeman (James Finlayson) comes to the door and begins telling them his life story.

James Parrott doing all kinds of handy work.

Pinched is a 1917 American short comedy film starring Harold Lloyd.

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

James Parrott as a very persistent book salesman.

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.

'Snub' Pollard gets knocked about at Prof. Biceps School of Physical Culture.

Alfalfa Doolittle journeys to Washington to take his "seat" in the house. When he returns after a visit to King George, Alfalfa is relating the incidents of the visit to the folks back home when someone voices a doubt as to the truth of the story. Alfalfa tries to confirm it by calling upon the house to fall in upon him if he is telling a lie. The house takes him at his word and there's a crash. Then Alfalfa admits that he may have "exaggerated a little.

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.

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.