Monte Collins

Monte Collins

Nacimiento : 1898-12-03, New York City, New York, USA

Muerte : 1951-06-01

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From Wikipedia Monte Collins (also credited as Monty Collins; December 3, 1898 – June 1, 1951) was an American film actor and screenwriter. He appeared in 167 films between 1920 and 1948. He also wrote for 32 films between 1930 and 1951. Dapper, pencil-mustached Collins starred in silent short comedies in the late 1920s. These were produced by Educational Pictures and often directed by Jules White. The coming of sound in movies had no ill effect on Collins's career; he was not as big a name as Buster Keaton or Laurel and Hardy, so Collins had no preconceived screen image that could be shattered by talkies. Although Collins took to talkies easily (he and Vernon Dent sing together in the early sound short Ticklish Business), he never established himself as a major comedy star. Throughout the 1930s he appeared in secondary roles (businessmen, butlers, soldiers, salesmen, etc.) in both feature films and short subjects. One of his last credits was supplying material for Laurel and Hardy's final film, Atoll K (1951). Filmed in France by French and Italian cast and crew members, the production was hectic and chaotic for the English-speaking stars. The finished film carries the unique credit, "Gags by Monty Collins." Collins was about to launch a career in television when he died of a heart attack in 1951, at age 52.

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Monte Collins

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La promesa verde
Producer
Un irritable y anticuado granjero, Walter Brennan, trata de criar a sus cuatro hijos sin la ayuda de una madre. Con su terquedad ha arruinado ya una granja y va en camino de arruinar otra, dando la espalda a cualquier ayuda externa y rehuyendo del uso de métodos modernos. No teniendo bastantes problemas, intenta también romper el romance de su hija mayor y su sueño de unirse a una cooperativa local para la crianza de cabritos.
La promesa verde
Screenplay
Un irritable y anticuado granjero, Walter Brennan, trata de criar a sus cuatro hijos sin la ayuda de una madre. Con su terquedad ha arruinado ya una granja y va en camino de arruinar otra, dando la espalda a cualquier ayuda externa y rehuyendo del uso de métodos modernos. No teniendo bastantes problemas, intenta también romper el romance de su hija mayor y su sueño de unirse a una cooperativa local para la crianza de cabritos.
La promesa verde
Story
Un irritable y anticuado granjero, Walter Brennan, trata de criar a sus cuatro hijos sin la ayuda de una madre. Con su terquedad ha arruinado ya una granja y va en camino de arruinar otra, dando la espalda a cualquier ayuda externa y rehuyendo del uso de métodos modernos. No teniendo bastantes problemas, intenta también romper el romance de su hija mayor y su sueño de unirse a una cooperativa local para la crianza de cabritos.
Joe Palooka in Winner Take All
Additional Dialogue
Joe is scheduled for the big fight as usual. This one has more fight sequences than plot.
Campus Sleuth
Dean McKinley
A photographer is choked to death just outside of where a college dance is being held. The body is discovered by Lee Watson, but promptly disappears, as it is being whisked from one point to another on the campus by a night watchman, who is an ex-convict.
Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad
Additional Dialogue
Joe Palooka goes blind during a fight. An operation restores his vision, but he's told not to fight for a year. His trainer Knobby has picked up another fighter, but gangsters are pressing him to fix fights. Joe decides to risk his eyesight to save Knobby's honor.
Smart Politics
College-Dean McKinley
The growth of juvenile crime in a small town starts a movement for the building of a youth center.
Smart Politics
Writer
The growth of juvenile crime in a small town starts a movement for the building of a youth center.
Heartaches
Story
Up-and-coming Hollywood actor/crooner, Vic Morton, has a secret. He starts receiving death threats in the mail and an attempt on his life is made. Soon after, two of his associates are murdered. Who is behind it all?
Sarge Goes to College
Dialogue
A Marine Sergeant, wounded in overseas service, requires an operation, and the Navy psychiatrist recommends to the Captain and Colonel that "Sarge" be given a few weeks rest before hospitalization. Through the Dean of San Juan Junior College, Sarge enters the school on a temporary basis.
Sarge Goes to College
Dean McKinley
A Marine Sergeant, wounded in overseas service, requires an operation, and the Navy psychiatrist recommends to the Captain and Colonel that "Sarge" be given a few weeks rest before hospitalization. Through the Dean of San Juan Junior College, Sarge enters the school on a temporary basis.
Moron Than Off
Joe Glick
In this 1946 All Star Comedy (production number 8434) remake of 1935's "I Don't Remember" short starring Harry Langdon, Sterling Holloway is on his way to make an installment payment on his furniture when a crony talks him into buying an Irish Sweepstakes ticket, and when Sterling's furniture is repossesed, he paints pictures of furniture on his walls to relieve the bareness. He wins the sweepstakes but has forgotten where the winning stub is.
Slappily Married
Story
Joe's wife, who thinks he's been carrying on with another woman, moves out.
Tangier
Screenplay
Maria Montez plays a Spanish dancer named Rita, who is determined to bring Nazi collaborator Colonel Jose Artiego (Preston Foster) to justice. Artiego is at presently working incognito, as military governor of the North African city of Tangier. Maria finds an unexpected ally in the form of Artiego's discarded mistress Dolores (Louise Allbritton).
Shady Lady
Additional Dialogue
A crook becomes the victim of a crafty card player who works for the District Attorney.
The Town Went Wild
Oscar, Public Defender
Comedy concerning two feuding fathers dealing with the shocking news that their sons were switched at birth, meaning that one of their daughters is about to marry her own brother.
Triple Trouble
Writer
Leon Errol wants to retain his secretary; complications ensue.
Phony Express
Writer
Set in the old west, the stooges are three tramps wanted for vagrancy. After ruining a medicine peddlers show, they arrive in Peaceful Gulch where a picture has been printed declaring them to be three famous lawmen coming to clean up the town. Assigned to guard the bank, the boys have the local gang scared at first, but when the gang learns who the stooges really are, they rob the bank. The boys go in pursuit, find the bad guy's hideout, subdue the bandits and recover the money. Written by Mitch Shapiro
La chica y el vaquero
Poker Player
Una chica de ciudad conoce un guapo cowboy de rodeo en una visita turística a la ciudad en autobús. Con él olvidará a sus pretendientes
Higher Than a Kite
Writer
The stooges are auto mechanics working for the R.A.F. in England. After wrecking an officers car they need a place to hide, but their choice, a sewer pipe, turns out to a bomb which is dropped on the enemy. Finding themselves behind enemy lines, Moe and Curly disguise as German officers and Larry dresses as a seductive fraulein. While general Bommel chases after Larry, Moe and Curly steal the secret plans from the high command.
Three Little Twirps
Screenplay
The Stooges get a job putting up posters for a circus but discover that instead of money, their pay is tickets to the show. When trying to scalp their tickets gets them in trouble, they hide out backstage where Curly has an encounter with a bearded lady and Moe and Larry hide in a horse suit. When they're caught, the circus manager gives them a choice of going to jail or joining the circus. What they don't know is that they are to be targets for the Zulu spear thrower. When Curly hits the spear thrower with one of his own spears, the boys are on the run once again.
Boobs in the Night
Screenplay
Auxiliary home defense workers El and Monte are sent to a spooky house where they come across a mad scientist and his assistant.
Boobs in the Night
Auxiliary home defense workers El and Monte are sent to a spooky house where they come across a mad scientist and his assistant.
HIs Wedding Scare
Elmer - Susie's 2rd Husband (as Monty Collins)
El and his new bride go on their honeymoon; no matter where they go, they keep running into her former husbands.
HIs Wedding Scare
Story
El and his new bride go on their honeymoon; no matter where they go, they keep running into her former husbands.
HIs Wedding Scare
Screenplay
El and his new bride go on their honeymoon; no matter where they go, they keep running into her former husbands.
They Stooge to Conga
Story
The stooges are repairmen who get a job fixing the doorbell in large house which is the secret headquarters of some Nazi spies. They manage to ruin most of the house while working on the wiring and then subdue the spies and sink an enemy submarine by remote control.
Matri-Phony
Story
The stooges are potters in ancient Rome during the reign of Emperor Octopus Grabus. When the emperor orders all beautiful red-headed women to be brought before him so he can select a wife, Diana, a pretty red-head, seeks refuge with the stooges. Some soldiers find Diana's hiding place and they are all brought to the palace where the stooges escape and try to pass of Curly as Diana, having broken the emperor's glasses. Their ruse fails and they're caught by the palace guards as they try to escape.
Maisie Gets Her Man
Man in Office (Uncredited)
Struggling performers, Sothern and Skelton's lives are thrown off gear when they are caught with a bagful of hard cash robbed by a goon. With Skelton in prison, how will Sothern prove their innocence?
Cactus Makes Perfect
Ma Stooge (uncredited)
The stooges are living with their mother who persuades them its time to leave home and seek their fortune. After a con man sells them a phony deed to a lost gold mine, the boys head west to find the treasure. After some mishaps with Curly's gold finding invention, they locate the mine and strike it rich. When two crooked miners try to take their gold they hole up in an abandoned hotel and, although they get bombarded by dynamite, triumph over the crooks.
Cactus Makes Perfect
Writer
The stooges are living with their mother who persuades them its time to leave home and seek their fortune. After a con man sells them a phony deed to a lost gold mine, the boys head west to find the treasure. After some mishaps with Curly's gold finding invention, they locate the mine and strike it rich. When two crooked miners try to take their gold they hole up in an abandoned hotel and, although they get bombarded by dynamite, triumph over the crooks.
House of Errors
Professor Stark
Former silent screen comic Harry Langdon earned above-title billing for the final time in his long career in this roughhewn but amusing World War II farce released by Poverty Row company PRC. Langdon and Charles "Buddy" Rogers are newspaper messengers helping reporter Ray Walker obtain an interview with journalist-hating inventor Richard Kipling. But before they know it, Harry and Buddy become unwittingly involved in plans to steal the professor's newest invention: a machine gun.
What Makes Lizzy Dizzy?
Bill, Aggie's Boy Friend
This Columbia short (production number 3431) has Harry Langdon and Elsie Ames billed above the title, but it is all Elsie Ames with Langdon and Monty Collins (if his name is Monte, how come---except for typos--- he is always billed as Monty?) only around to get a bowling ball bounced off the top of their collective heads, plus a couple of unfunny sight gags. Langdon, while top-billed, also played second-fiddle to the pratfalls of Elsie Ames in "Carry Harry" and even soon found himself billed second to Una Merkel---yes, that Una Merkel--- in Columbia's 1944-short "To Heir Is Human." Lizzy and her friend Aggie are toiling in Kelley's Laundry in order to get enough money to marry their boy friends Harry and Bill, and soon find themselves as a two-woman company bowling team attempting to keep Mr. Kelley from losing a $1000 bet. Things happen. Some of them funny.
Kathleen
Moving Man
Kathleen es una niña de 12 años que vive en una casa grande con una niñera, un mayordomo, sirvientas, ninguna madre y un padre que trabaja la mayor parte del tiempo. Ella sueña con una familia con una madre, un padre y ella, y le dice a todos que ella tiene esa familia. Debido a esta historia, ella no puede invitar a ningún amigo, ya que verán que no es cierto.
She's Oil Mine
Monte Piper, plumber
Buster fights a duel over a girl.
Three Girls About Town
Tipsy Poker Player
Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the mortician's convention is arriving, and the sisters, with help from manager Wilburforce Puddle, try to hide it. Complicating matters, Hope's boyfriend, Tommy, is a newspaper reporter in the hotel covering some labor negotiations.
General Nuisance
Sgt. Michael Collins
A millionaire falls for an army nurse, who tells him she likes men in uniform. So he enlists at Camp Cluster. She still has no time for him, so he figures out how to get into the hospital and under her care.
Cold Turkey
Landlord
Harry wins a turkey at a raffle.
Buck Benny Rides Again
Bellboy
Radio star Jack Benny, intending to stay in New York for the summer, is forced by the needling of rival Fred Allen to prove his boasts about roughing it on his (fictitious) Nevada ranch. Meanwhile, singer Joan Cameron, whom Jack's fallen for and offended, is maneuvered by her sisters to the same Nevada town. Jack's losing battle to prove his manhood to Joan means broad slapstick burlesque of Western cliches.
Mad Youth
Stewart - Singing Bridge Player
A rich society mother hires a male escort, but he falls for her daughter instead. The mother-daughter conflict forces the daughter to run off to stay with a friend who is enslaved by a prostitution ring.
You're Next!
Pruitt
Two goofball private detectives are hired to find a millionaire who has been kidnapped by a mad scientist.
A Plumbing We Will Go
Prof. Bilbo (uncredited)
To escape the police, the stooges pose as plumbers and are hired to fix a leak in a fancy mansion. They wind up crossing the electrical system with the plumbing and generally ruin the place. One memorable scene has the lady of the house tuning into a television broadcast from Niagara Falls as a torrent of water pours from the set. To escape the wrath of the homeowners the stooges escape through a magicians trap door.
Midnight Limited
Abel Krantz
The Phantom Robber gets a fortune in jewels and some valuable papers from a robbery on the crack train "The Midnight Limited" and Val Lennon and his pretty assistant, Joan Marshall, are on his trail. But the Phantom strikes three more times and adds murder to his list. Val decides to use himself as bait, although Chief Harrigan and Joan beg him not to risk his life. But Val, disguised as a wealthy Canadian, boards the train for a rendezvous with a killer.
The Heckler
Baseball Spectator with Pipe
An obnoxious heckler at a baseball game infuriates everybody.
Heroes in Blue
Moe
Family heartbreak: A dedicated New York City policeman raises two sons, one following in his dad's footsteps as a cop while the other turns to crime and is arrested for murder.
Mooching Through Georgia
Cyrus Cobb, Homer's Brother
Man relates how he outwitted the Yankee army during the Civil War.
The Gracie Allen Murder Case
Picnic Master of Ceremonies
The zany plot follows nitwit Gracie Allen trying to help master sleuth Philo Vance solve a murder.
Star Reporter
Hogan
An idealistic young newspaper reporter crusades against organized crime.
Lazo sagrado
Juror
Johnny Mason, un joven abogado recién casado, trabaja para el estricto juez Doolittle, del que es imposible conseguir una subida de sueldo. Para colmo, Johnny tiene que interrumpir su luna de miel por orden de su jefe, que está furioso con él porque deseaba casarlo con su hija Eunice.
Sue My Lawyer
Detective Collins
Comedy. Although he lacks a law degree Harry persistently pesters District Attorney O.T. Hill for a job
Three Missing Links
Herbert Herringbone - Director
The stooges are janitors working in a movie studio. After wrecking the bosses office, they get jobs as actors in an African movie. Curly plays a gorilla and Moe and Larry are primitive natives. On location in Africa, the stooges have a confrontation with a witch doctor from whom Curly buys some "love candy" with hopes of attracting the films leading lady. When a female gorilla disrupts the movie set, Curly eats some of the candy and chases after her.
The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
Danny
A group of "Phantom Raiders" interfere with a cattle drive from Texas to Abilene; fortunately, U.S. Marshal Wild Bill Hickok is appointed to ensure the success of the mission.
Fiddling Around
Monte Collins
Two bumbling, would-be private detectives, Tom Kennedy and Monte Collins, are hired to protect a maestro's valuable Stradvarius. But there is a girl named Rosina and a pool hall involved and that means trouble ahead for the pair.
Hollywood Round-Up
Freddie Foster
While filming a western on location, the stand-in/stunt double for an egotistical cowboy movie star proves his heroics when a "fake" bank robbery turns out to be the real thing.
Calling All Curtains
Two friends decide to to into the laundry business. Their first job is to clean 300 curtains.
Behind the Mike
Alberts
Complications ensue after a radio producer insults a sponsor.
Bury the Hatchet
Monte (as Monty Collins)
Two families claim to be the rightful owners of a house won in a contest, so they move into the house together while waiting for a decision.
Ritmo loco
Usher-Messenger (uncredited)
La estrella del ballet Pete "Petrov" Peters se las ha arreglado para cruzar el Atlántico a bordo del mismo barco en el que viaja la bailarina de la que se ha enamorado perdidamente, Linda Keene, aunque apenas la conoce. Pero, en el momento en que el trasatlántico llega a Nueva York, una pequeña mentira se propaga como un rumor: que las dos celebridades están casadas en secreto.
New News
Monte Collins
Aa Columbia 2-reel comedy starring Tom Kennedy and Monty Collins in NEW NEWS (1937). Fans of the 3 Stooges will recognize the exact same plot and situations from their short CRASH GOES THE HASH (1944). Yes, this version came out BEFORE the Stooges version...so anyone that says these guys are ripping the Stooges off, they are wrong! Columbia made 526 slapstick two-reelers between 1933-1958...190 starred the Stooges...336 others starred a variety of comedians.
The Super Snooper
Two dimwitted detectives investigate the robbery of an express company.
Free Rent
Tom persuades Monty to buy a house trailer so they can live off the fat of the land.
Midnight Blunders
Monte
The evil Dr. Wong abducts prominent scientist Dr. Edwin Millstone. Bumbling bank guards Tom and Monte search through Chinatown to find Dr. Wong and rescue the professor.
Midnight Blunders
Story
The evil Dr. Wong abducts prominent scientist Dr. Edwin Millstone. Bumbling bank guards Tom and Monte search through Chinatown to find Dr. Wong and rescue the professor.
Born to Fight
Gloomy Gus
An honest boxer refuses to throw a fight for a gambler. They get into a fight and the boxer knocks the gambler out. Thinking he's killed him and believing that the police are after him, the horrified boxer runs off and takes to the road, promising never to box again. However, one day he comes upon a small but scrappy young kid who has the potential to be a champion. The former boxer takes the kid under his wing and trains him, but the kid's ensuing success starts to go to his head. Pretty soon he finds himself mixed up with gamblers, too.
Just Speeding
To avoid getting a speeding ticket from a motorcycle cop, Tom pretends to be a surgeon rushing Monty to the hospital for an emergency operation.
Unrelated Relations
Monte and his new wife are moving into their new home. All is going well until her family decides to drop in for a visit.
To Beat the Band
The Coroner
An eccentric heir must marry a widow in order to collect the millions left to him in his aunt's will, so a suicidal neighbor agrees to marry the man's young fiancée before offing himself.
Oh, My Nerves
Oh, My Nerves is a 1935 American short comedy film directed by Del Lord. Monty's nerves are shot, so he decides to go on a nice, relaxing trip to the country. Unfortunately, his brother-in-law Tom brings along the rest of the family. Comic chaos ensues. The film was nominated for an Academy Award at the 8th Academy Awards, held in March 1936, for Best Short Subject (Comedy).
Gobs of Trouble
Two sailors decide to settle down and get married, and live to regret it.
Stage Frights
Two bumbling detectives help a stage actress who has been receiving threatening letters.
Love, Honor and Obey (The Law!)
Bob (uncredited)
Love Honor and Obey the Law: Harry Langdon and Monte Collins in a 1935 industrial film intended to promote Goodrich Tires.
Gum Shoes
Two house detectives investigate a series of robberies committed by a trained gorilla.
The Mystery Man
Dunn, Reporter
Hard-boiled newspaper reporter Larry Doyle (Robert Armstrong) goes a bit too far in celebrating a work bonus and wakes up on a train bound for St. Louis with only a buck on his person. To remedy the problem, Doyle pawns the revolver he's carrying. When the gun is subsequently used in a murder, Doyle's problems only multiply. In the meantime, he's also fallen in love with a comely stranger (Maxine Doyle) he convinced to impersonate his wife.
Hollywood Trouble
An oil-rich rube who aspires to stardom is bilked by a phony acting school.
In a Pig's Eye
Chutney, the Butler
The comedic duo of Bobby Clark and 'Paul McCullough' are tailors who will keep you in stitches -- of laughter. See Bobby in a kilt play the bagpipes!
Love and Hisses
Reynolds - the Butler
Clark & McCullough hired to save love as the Judge refuses to marry Fanny Bender and Fanny refuses her daughter to marry the Judge's son unless the Judge marries her.
Woman Haters
Mr. Zero
The stooges join the "Women Haters" club and vow to have nothing to do with the fair sex. Larry marries a girl anyway and attempts to hide the fact from Moe and Curly as they take a train trip.
Henry the Ache
Thomas Culpeper
Shemp Howard stars in this old parody of the then-current film "King Henry The Eighth". Also starring Bert Lahr in the title role.
The Gay Nighties
Hotel Detective
This short features two women who run around in their nighties. Paul McCullough spends most of the picture in a dress, and Bobby Clark does an extended riff on the word "Alright!" which Lou Costello later stole verbatim. There is a political frameup, a nearsighted hotel house detective, and the ever-popular upstairs motorcycle chase.
Lucky Dog
Drunk #3
A rich man's enemies cause him to lose his money, his best friend (his dog), as he goes to jail. Once free he spends all his time hunting for his lost dog.
Techno-Crazy
Jimmy - Technocracy Believer
TECHNO-CRAZY has to be one of the strangest comedy shorts of the 1930's. Starring Monte Collins as a young man who dreams of technological progress in society bringing a "technocracy" that's a utopia and Billy Bevan as the Mayor, whose daughter Collins wants to marry, the short begins with a dream sequence where Collins is running a factory on his own and explaining to someone how no one needs to work in this new utopia and everything operates automatically.
Hollywood Runaround
1932 Comedy short film
Show Business
Collins
The girls and their pet monkey create havoc on board a train carrying a traveling Broadway troupe.
A Slip at the Switch
Operator
Charles 'Chic' Sale gets in the middle of a train robbery!
Just a Pain in the Parlor
Harry Sweet stars as a hick Olympic hero who is housed in a high society mansion and causes havoc to the high brow party in progress.
Girl Crazy
Bartender
New York playboy Danny Churchill is sent to a small town in Arizona, where being sheriff is very dangerous, to keep away from girls, but he decides to open a dude ranch there. He asks his friend Slick, a professional gambler and his wife Kitty, to help him. Slick decides to go there in a cab, driven by shy Jimmy. Jimmy's younger sister Tessie also travels there. There Danny has fallen in love with Molly, but troubles arise for him when the local heavy decides that he doesn't like the ranch and announces running for sheriff. Danny and Slick got the idea that Jimmy would be the ideal candidate, especially because of the fact that the heavy has announced he would kill another sheriff. With some help Jimmy is elected, but Molly leaves Danny with a New York shyster for Mexico. Mitzi, Danny, Kitty, Patsy - Jimmy's sweetheart as well as Jimmy and Slick follow her to win her heart back for Danny, but they are followed by the local heavy and his friend.
Running Hollywood
Butler
Running Hollywood is a comedy short.
Keep Laughing
Keep Laughing is a 1932 Comedy short
Anybody's Goat
A goat is involved in a post robbery.
It's a Cinch
Jimmy
When a dance instructor is tricked into facing a prize fighter in the boxing ring, his girlfriend devises a plan to turn the odds in his favor.
Scandal Sheet
Reporter Collins
Confirming his principle that no one escapes the news, a tabloid editor prints a scathing story about his wife.
Why Bring That Up?
Skeets
George's partner in vaudeville quits their act, claiming that Betty has broken his heart. George then teams up with Charlie, a stranded trouper, and Irving becomes their manager. Later, in New York, the "Two Black Crows" star in their own revue and save money to build their own theater on Broadway. Betty comes to the theater with her lover, who poses as a cousin and induces George to hire her. He showers her with jewels and money. She tries to persuade George to invest in oil stock her lover is selling, and though their act is a success, Charlie fires Betty. When Charlie and Betty's lover quarrel, Charlie is injured.
Look Out Below
Waiter
A Educational short where Robert Graves plays Thelma Todd's jealous husband.
Honeymooniacs
The Newlywed Bridegroom
HONEYMOONIACS was the last silent "Mermaid" comedy from legendary producer Jack White (according to David N. Bruskin's book on the White Brothers--Jack, Jules, and Sam). It features the great rubber-faced comedian and writer Monte Collins as a man with his bride on a train during their honeymoon.
The Lost Laugh
The Washing Machine Salesman
THE LOST LAUGH - starring Wallace Lupino, with Lucille Hutton and Monte Collins. After a rough start with their rise and shine, a couple's breakfast is interrupted by a washing machine salesman's visit. Purchased and installed, the washer proves troublesome and after several attempts at laundering, the salesman returns only to be ejected...along with his appliance.
Three Tough Onions
The husband
In-laws make life unbearable for Monty (Review from Selectd Motion Pictures journal)
Wedding Slips
The Newlywed Husband
A newlyweds' honeymoon trip is detoured by a run-in with a troupe of gypsies, who kidnap the bride while the groom must tangle with the gypsy queen and a gorilla before resuming the honeymoon.
Fall In
Monte Collins in trouble out west with the animals and castor oil.
It's Me
An early vacation turns into a cruise full of trouble.
The Arizona Wildcat
Low Jack Wilkins (as Monte Collins Jr.)
Tom Mix plays a California breeder of polo ponies in love with a society gal. The cowboy saves the day when a member of her brother's polo team is injured during an important match. Mix immediately replaces him and amazes the audience with his spectacular riding stunts.
45 Minutes from Hollywood
Hotel Guest (uncredited)
A young man visiting Hollywood on family business gets into trouble when he sees a bank robbery in progress, and thinks it is a movie scene.
The Cowboy and the Countess
Slim (as Monte Collins Jr.)
A carefree range devil rescues visiting Countess Justina of Belgravia (Helena D'Algy) from a car wreck.
All Around Frying Pan
Mike Selby
Wondering cowboy Bart Andrews (played by Fred Thompson) gets arrested simply because a crooked sheriff is short on men for his chain gang. A chance visit to a rodeo on the way to jail, gives Bart a chance to demonstrate his bronco-busting skills, which results in the sheriff caving to pressure from a group of cowboys, to allow Bart to work on ranch, rather than joining the road gang. Finding himself in the right place at the right time, Bart is able to prevent the theft of a train full of cattle, but later ends up being accused of killing a station agent when he interrupts the ranch foreman robbing an express office. Bart is eventually able to bring the foreman to justice, and in a surprise twist, it turns out that he was in fact the real owner of the ranch he was working at!
Just Plain Folks
Dan Webber, a sailor in the U.S. Navy who has been away from home for many years and presumed dead, returns to his farm to find that his family is about to be evicted. Dan's sweetheart arrives with a baby who, unknown to Dan, is actually the child of his younger brother and the sweetheart's sister.
Men
François
Cleo lives in Marseilles and works as a waitress in a waterfront dive. A stranger entices her into coming to Paris to take dancing lessons, but instead she is taken to a baron, who betrays her. In spite of this inauspicious start, Cleo becomes a successful and renowned actress, but her feelings about men have never recovered. She loathes them and uses them only for the money they offer her, which she then hands over to a penniless girl.
Captain Fly-by-Night
Drunk
First one stranger, then another, arrive at the presidio, each with a government pass and each claiming to have been robbed by the notorious Captain Fly-by-Night and his highwaymen. The soldiers and Señorita Anita believe the first to be Fly-by-Night and the second to be Señor Rocha, Anita's fiancée and emissary of the governor. But the first stranger, to whom Anita is drawn, proves to be on a government mission and exposes the second stranger as Captain Fly-by-Night.
Come on Over
Dugan
Shane O'Mealia leaves Ireland, promising to send for his sweetheart, Moyna. In the mean time the son of the old lady she lives with, takes them back to America without telling Shane, who then must explain a girl he's been seeing in New York.
The Cup of Life
Larry Donovan
Infamous Singapore smuggler Bully Brand possess a beautiful pearl necklace that is desired by Chinese merchant Chan Chang for his daughter Pain, a young white girl he had adopted. Warren Bradford, Brand's ward, returns from college and falls in love with Chang's daughter.