Half-breed Archer
Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder. He wanders into the midst of the Riel Rebellion, in which Métis (people of French and Native heritage) and Natives want a separate nation. Dusty falls for nurse April Logan, who is also loved by Mountie Jim Brett. April's brother is involved with Courbeau's daughter Louvette, which leads to trouble during the battles between the rebels and the Mounties. Through it all Dusty is determined to bring Corbeau back to Texas (and April, too, if he can manage it.)
Assistant Coach (uncredited)
Harold Lamb is so excited about going to college that he has been working to earn spending money, practicing college yells, and learning a special way of introducing himself that he saw in a movie. When he arrives at Tate University, he soon becomes the target of practical jokes and ridicule. With the help of his one real friend Peggy, he resolves to make every possible effort to become popular.
Charley Stokes
Lloyd's look at married life and the issues of the in-law. Adventures include a ride on a crowded trolley with a live turkey; A wild spin in a new auto with the in-laws in tow. Finally, a sequence in which Hubby accidentally chloroforms his mother-in-law and becomes convinced that he's killed her!
'Snub' Pollard wants to hang himself but figures joining the circus was better idea.
Jewish tailor
A prosecutor instructs the audience of a courtroom to observe the tearful and slightly hysterical wife (Helen Gilmore) who is sitting in the witness box, and claims she is this way due to her husband, who shows up very infrequently. For the defence (James Finlayson), he never did anything to be proud of - and was proud of it. He sits there smirking and sipping a glass of water before being momentarily distracted. He goes to take another sip of his drink but instead picks up a different glass containing something very different.
Shop Assistant
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.
Revolutionary with Moustache (uncredited)
A hypochondriac vacations in the tropics for the fresh air - and finds himself in the middle of a revolution instead.
Garage owner
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....
Auctioneer
This Hal Roach comedy short I found on the "American Slapstick" DVD collection of rare silent comedies starts bizarre and has an anything goes-quality one rarely sees in Mr. Roach's output. It stars Snub Pollard who is initially introduced as a baby left on a doorstep before we see him fully grown about 20 or so years later still in that basket! From there, he gets bumped car to car crossing the street prior to getting literally thrown through a window as an auction is taking place! Also appearing is James Finlayson as a man who's items accidentally get sold.
Ambulance Attendant
When a store clerk organizes a contest to climb the outside of a tall building, circumstances force him to make the perilous climb himself.
Luke Hassan (as Charles E. Stevenson)
An employee in a theater showing Valentino's "The Shiek" daydreams about himself playing Valentino's role.
'Snub' Pollard is an local actor getting a big break in the movie industry, coming home to show off his fame.
A James Parrott comedy short.
Asylum Guard (uncredited)
Country doctor Jack Jackson is called in to treat the Sick-Little-Well-Girl, who has been making Dr. Saulsbourg and his sanitarium very rich after years of unsuccessful treatment.
His Rival / Union General
A meek young man must find the courage within when a rogue tramp menaces his hometown.
Julius Goldsmith - Film producer
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.
Courtroom comedy with Eddie Boland as Judge.
Pedro
A free-spirited girl is caught between her love for her husband and her attraction to a handsome adventurer.
The Police Force
Our hero is infatuated with a girl in the next office. In order to drum up business for her boss, an osteopath, he gets an actor friend to pretend injuries that the doctor "cures", thereby building a reputation. When he hears that his girl is marrying another, he decides to commit suicide and spends the bulk of the film in thrilling, failed attempts.
Conductor
A young man, unaccustomed to children, must accompany a young girl on a train trip.
Cop / Man on Rollercoaster (uncredited)
While at an amusement park, trying vainly to forget the girl he has lost, a young man sees the girl with her new boyfriend. When her dog gets loose in the park, both suitors have to help her catch it. Then, the girl's uncle, a balloonist, gives her a pass for two in his balloon, provided that her mother approves. She then offers to take along the first of her admirers who is able to get her mother's consent.
(uncredited)
The comic adventures of a new car owner.
Run ’Em Ragged, Snub Pollard’s 39th starring vehicle, uses familiar slapstick-- Over-the-top make-up, ethnic humor, and a 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.
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.
Police Officer (uncredited)
A tipsy doctor encounters his patient sleepwalking on a building ledge, high above the street.
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.
Man who won't buy books
A young adventurer trades places with a European prince and falls in love above his station.
Jewish Bootlegger
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 (who is a dentist). 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. That's because he's incredibly rough and manages to toss a guy out the window when he pulls his tooth.
Stolen Wallet Cop (uncredited)
As a penniless man worries about how he will manage to eat, he is joined by a young waif and her dog, who are in the same predicament. Meanwhile, across town a dishonest lawyer is working with a gang of criminals, trying to swindle an innocent young heiress out of her inheritance. As the heiress is on her way home from the lawyer's office, she notices the young man and the waif in the midst of their latest problem with the authorities, and she rescues them. Later on, the young man will have an unexpected opportunity to repay her for her kindness.
Servant
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.
A young playwright spends his last cent to pay the past-due rent for the pretty dancer who's his boarding house next-door neighbor. Soon after, he winds up at a gambling club, where he wins big - just before a police raid.
An American short comedy film.
Count the Votes is a 1919 American short comedy film. It is considered to be lost.
He Leads, Others Follow is a 1919 American short comedy film. It is presumed to be lost.
A Harold Lloyd short featuring a young Snooky the chimp
Detective
Stan plays a janitor at a hotel dropping letters and trying to retrieve them with a vacuum, getting wet, helping a lady shoot her cheating husband and being chased by the police.
Bees in His Bonnet is a 1918 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd. It is presumed to be lost.
A short film starring Harold Lloyd.
Our newlywed hero is about to embark on a journey when he realizes that he has lost the train tickets. A crook knocks him down and switches clothes with him. The assailant's victims pursue our man while his bride is led to believe that she has been deserted.
Harold visits the Ozarks, where he has some funny experiences with a mountain girl and her eccentric family.
Con artists Harold and Snub attempt to outwit phony psychic Miss Goulash and her "professor" father.
At a masquerade ball, our hero, in a tramp costume, is arrested when they think he is a real hobo. In the meantime, an actual hobo, at the party, is treated like a guest.
(as Charles E. Stevenson)
Our hero gets a job at a hotel in the country and proceeds to introduce some changes, installing gadgets and time-saving devices.
Whooping-Cough Charlie, the Sheriff
A mild-mannered young man has left home, and is now playing the piano in a bar in the west. The dangerous criminal Dagger-Tooth Dan enters the bar where the young man is playing. Soon afterwards, the local sheriff also arrives, with some letters that he has received. Dan notices the letters, and he switches the information in them to make the sheriff think that the piano player is the dangerous one.
A two-reel comic number featuring Toto the clown in his usual knockabout tricks. He is first seen flirting in a park, but later appears at a moving picture studio. He gets in trouble here and escapes dressed as a girl. He then invades the grounds of a dancing school, and later the winter quarters of a circus.
Prop Man
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. (She's the adorable young Bebe Daniels, so this is easy to understand.) 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.
Indian (uncredited)
A young man grows restless living in a small Kansas town, dreaming of the adventures of the Three Musketeers. So in hopes of becoming a modern D'Artagnan, he mounts his steed (a Model T Ford) and sets out across the West in search of excitement and adventure.
Luke is an inept detective who follows the wrong man to a seaside hotel.
Harold's Rival
In order to get his daughter away from her suitors, her 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.
In pre-historic times (dream sequence), our hero, in a loin cloth, battles other cavemen over the opposite sex.
An Englishman and his valet have adventures in the American West.
An Englishman and his valet tour the American West.
Luke, running a chili parlor, inherits a million dollars and joins high society.
Harold's checked cap, blown from his head by a freakish wind, gets him into trouble. First he comes into conflict with the police as a highwayman, then the cap serves to identify him as a housebreaker and lands him in jail, while the innocent cause of his trouble becomes his cellmate for another reason. Eventually a distracted wife rescues both her husband and Harold from the clutches of the law, the cap this time aiding him to regain his freedom.
Luke operates a sanatarium, which he has naturally staffed with a bevy of attractive nurses.
A Harold Lloyd short in the 'Lonesome Luke' series.
Stop! Luke! Listen! is a 1917 short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd.
Luke runs the coat-check concession at the White Light Cafe.
Directed by Hal Roach. With Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels, 'Snub' Pollard, Bud Jamison.
Lonesome Luke, Lawyer is a 1917 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd.
Luke and his pal find existence in prison so amusing that they depart with regrets.
Flophouse Manager
Audiences may think Luke with his St. Vitus movement never sleeps, but they are dead wrong. Like Bill Shakespeare Luke "blesses the man who first invented sleep." After a screamingly comical search for slumber he finally hits the hay and sleeps without moving to Brooklyn.
Luke, working in a fireworks factory.
Luke crashes a society affair, thereby livening things up.
Lonesome Luke has a movie theater and also works the box office and as an usher. He has to put up with, among other things, an incompetent projectionist who falls asleep all the time. Complications ensue.
Luke's Newsie Knockout is a 1916 short comedy film starring Harold Lloyd.
When a doctor is forced, because of a lack of patients, to dismiss his pretty nurse, Luke comes to the rescue and uses his flivver to supply a ready supply of accident cases.
Luke, the Gladiator is a 1916 short comedy film starring Harold Lloyd.
Luke's Preparedness Preparations is a 1916 short comedy film starring Harold Lloyd.
A fortune hunter marries a widow, believing her to be an heiress, but she isn't.
Lonesome Luke at the Tijuana Races.
Luke is a bellboy at a fancy club.
Lonesome Luke asleep in the briny deep.
Sailor
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. Soon Pollard's wife comes to the boat looking for him and she's put off the boat as the movie ends very, very anticlimactically.
Lonesome Luke at the San Diego Exposition.
A day at the seaside chasing a lost child.
Luke happens into a spiritualist's shop where he is smitten by her daughter. He decides to stick around and take a job there.
Luke, a mechanic, stands in for a famous violinist. At first, his bad manners and rough behavior are accepted as the eccentricities of genius. Then matters get out of hand.
Luke and friends are crowded into his two-seater, out for a ride in the country. Hayhem ensues when his party of fifteen encounters some 'fashionable folk.'
Unhappy in his job as a butler (although he likes wearing a dress suit), Luke gets involved with burglars and the law.
Luke runs a beanery, in which the bad service, terrible food and filthy conditions lead to hi-jinx.
Luke dreams that he has a double. One 'Luke' gets in all kinds of trouble, while the other pays the consequences.
Working as a pastry chef, Luke steals a watch from a customer, which results in a wild police chase throughout the store.
