James D. Davis

Movies

The Big Shot
Director
Fat and Snub are a reporter and photographer who try to track down a reclusive Scotsman for an interview and photo.
On Your Toes!
Co-Writer
Silent boxing sports comedy about a boxer whose grandmother wants him to be a ballet dancer, so he has the boxers at his training camp pose as ballet dancers to fool granny, with predictable results
Find the King
Writer
Double Trouble
Director
"Snub" and his much larger dancing partner, "Fat" (Marvin Loback), struggle with each other in the room they share, try to crash the local vaudeville house and end up having to repossess a piano from their former landlord.
Mitt The Prince
Director
The film begins with Snub and Fat (yes, that IS the politically incorrect and cruel name given to Snub's partner in this and several other films made for the Weiss Brothers) want to make a few bucks. The film begins with them doing some maintenance sort of work--with Fat on a ladder and Snub sweeping outside. When this doesn't work out, a random stranger just happens to walk up to them and offer them HIS MOTHER'S CAR and asks them to make a delivery.
All Wet
Director
In this film, Snub leaves his extremely tiny town to go live with his aunt, who he doesn't even know. He arrives at her house when she's throwing a party and she doesn't want to invite him inside...until she learns he owns an oil well. Then she encourages him to meet and become smitten with her daughter. However, Snub isn't that interested in this vamp and instead is interested in the maid. But due to their persistence, Snub finally agrees to marry the cousin--at which point the maid hatches a plan to expose the ruse and a silent comedy chase ensues.
Fire!!
Director
At the Sans Scruples Hotel, the house fire inspector has to steer clear of a vamp and her jealous husband, and put out a fire to win the girl.
The Yokel
Director
Snub comes to town with his pet duck where people think that he has struck oil at home, and so is briefly pursued by the young women, before settling on Thelma Daniels.
The Doughboy
Director
The film begins with Snub going off to war in WWI. He manages to get lost behind enemy lines and spends most of the movie hiding or just barely escaping encounter after encounter with German soldiers.
Salute
Director
Slapstick comedians doing what they can with various uniforms on.
Three Wise Goofs
Director
A heavyweight slapstick comedy with "A Ton Of Fun".
Tailoring
Director
A 'Ton of Fun' slapstick comedy from the heaviest trio Hollywood has ever produced!
Trouble Brewing
Writer
Trouble Brewing
Director
Horseshoes
Director
A boxer offers $50 to anyone who can stay in the ring with him for an entire minute. Larry, through a series of mix-ups--including hitting the boxer in the face with a tomato--winds up in the ring with him but, with the aid of some strategically placed horseshoes, manages to knock the boxer out. When he comes to and finds out what happened, the outraged boxer sets out after Larry.
Lightning Love
Director
The storm, which takes up most of the second reel, is a trial run for the storm sequence in The Wizard Of Oz which Semon would make in 1925. Fox released a comedy that was an exact copy of Lightning Love just before the Semon film was due to come out. Albert E. Smith noticed the similarities and on September 5, 1923 attempted to have the Fox film pulled from the exhibitors.
Shine 'Em Up
Director
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.
The Golf Bug
Director
The Golf Bug,1922, directed by James D. Davis, starring James "Paul" Parrott and Jobyna Ralston, is a short silent comedy film.
The Landlubber
Director
Paul Parrott comedy produced by Hal Roach.
Her Circus Man
Writer
A lost silent short comedy.
Her Circus Man
Director
A lost silent short comedy.
Danger Ahead
Director
Danger Ahead is a 1918 silent thriller
The Belles of Liberty
Director
Monty Banks plays a paramour who starts all sort of silly highjinks with Eva Novak and Carolyne Wright
Sticky Fingers
Director
The Bum's Rush
Director
A 1927 short