Soloist in 'Little Black Sheep' (uncredited)
Joe es un jugador profesional que se debate entre dos amores. En el suburbio en el que reside vive una bella mujer por la que se siente tentado. Mientras, su mujer sufre en silencio una existencia llena de desengaños.
Salesman
Rival Taxi Companies compete for business and make a slapstick mess of everything.
Piano Salesman (uncredited)
La empresa de mudanzas Laurel & Hardy tiene el cometido de entregar un piano mecánico, que ha de subir por un elevado tramo de escaleras. Entorpecen su labor una enfermera, un policía y, finalmente, el supuesto destinatario del piano. Primera comedia en la historia del cine en obtener un Oscar al mejor cortometraje
Billy
The kids' adopted grandma decides to sell her store, but can't decide whom to sell it to. The kids try to help her out.
Hotel manager
Stan y Ollie causan estragos en un hotel de clase alta en sus trabajos como lacayo (Hardy) y portero (Laurel). Desvisten parcialmente a la bomba rubia Jean Harlow (en una breve aparición) y escoltan repetidamente a un noble estirado hasta el hueco de un ascensor vacío.
Horse owner
Los mozos de cuadra Stan y Ollie cuidan un pura sangre llamado "Blue Boy". Pero cuando escuchan a dos hombres hablar sobre una recompensa de $ 5000 por la devolución del "Blue Boy" robado, se pierden la parte de que es la pintura, no el caballo. Llevan el caballo a la casa del dueño para reclamar la recompensa. El propietario les indica que pongan "Blue Boy" en el piano y Ollie explica que "estos millonarios son peculiares".
Gillroy Gibbs
Despite his fear of horses, Eddie Hamilton takes part in a fox hunt, in order to impress the daughter of his host, Colonel Calhoun.
Jack Hastings (uncredited)
Una eterna aspirante a primera actriz, encargada del guardarropa, un joven deslumbrado por las "stars" de Broadway que busca trabajo de lo que sea... Ella le apadrinará para entrar en el teatro de la farándula y esto acarreará mil situaciones complicadas y divertidas. (Eddie Constanti)
The Great Brandenburg - Stage Magician (uncredited)
A young man puts on the play "Romeo and Juliet" as a fundraiser, but has to keep a close eye on his dad, who's had several drinks too many, and a pesky cab driver who's determined to collect his fare.
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.
Construction Worker (uncredited)
A cook for bridge constructors is told to collect food for dinner-Ritz style trout, Palmer house rabbit and a 15cm frosted cake. He sets off into the wide open spaces to collect the food, coming into contact with a mad hermit, who hates anybody seeing his daughter, before returning to cook dinner
Train Passenger
Two burglars break into the home of an eccentric doctor. The doctor catches them, but offers to let them go free -- and give them a thousand dollars -- if they go to a cemetery and bring back the body of a man who he believes died of "water on the brain."
The Bachelor
Despite his faithfulness, Melvin is always under suspicion by wife Mame. Complications erupt when a woman from a party across the hall passes out in Melvin's bedroom just before Mame returns.
Salesman
A very good as a faithful husband, whose wife is looking for proof that more than his eyes have been roving. She hires a private detective to provide it.
The New Manager
Vermuda, a saleswoman in a department store, is very late for work. She relies on a ruse to fool the floorwalker, and when that doesn't work, she relies on her friendship with the store manager. But she is soon disillusioned as to where she really stands with the manager.
Patent medicine salesman
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.
Jimmy's rival
Charley Chase is a hapless inventor with a better mouse trap in this silent comedy from 1925.
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...
A movie cameraman is on the lookout for new material but a rival plans to copy everything he films.
Wide Open Spaces is a 1924 Western silent film starring Stan Laurel.
A 1924 silent comedy.
Stan Laurel as a harness racing jockey who must win a big race.
Fiddler at party
A shy cowboy is interested in the local school teacher, but must compete with a bully for her attention.
The Boss
After being discharged from the 372nd infantry, on account of a bean shortage, smithy seeks employment. He finds a job on a construction site, where he helps to build a house, and soon causes havoc amongst the other workers. The construction company owner leaves for a week, and tells his secretary to send a letter to Mr. Smith telling him to complete the construction of the house while he (the owner) is away. The letter is accidently sent to Smithy who manages to complete the house. When the owner returns the house is complete, and Smithy is commended until the last support beam is removed...
Other Driver
Charley Chase has car trouble.
Movie Actor
'Snub' Pollard as a eccentric movie director.
The Boss
A Hal Roach comedy starring 'Snub' Pollard and James Finlayson.
Ebben Tizzle
Two lifelong friends vie for the affection of the same woman.
Weller Pump, oil executive
A group of oil magnates are trying to think of new ways to attract business. One of them suggests that they contact the inventor Pollard, who has devised a new gasoline substitute. Pollard himself lives in a home filled with his eccentric inventions. When he gets the message from the oil company, he is excited about the opportunity to demonstrate his innovation.
Ship's Officer (uncredited)
Un joven millonario hipocondríaco viaja con su guapa enfermera y su servicial mayordomo a la imaginaria isla sudamericana de Paradiso. Pero, a pesar de su nombre, la isla no es lo que cabría esperar.
John Dryden
Her Dangerous Path
Director of 'Should Husbands Work?'
The gang wages war using old vegetables as munitions. Later, they ruin a movie in progress when they double-expose the film.
The Boss
Surge un problema cuando un hombre incompetente, interpretado por Stan Laurel, va a trabajar a "una mina sin valor" y se enamora de la hija del jefe.
Aviator with False Teeth
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.
Pursued by the law, a street cleaner finds refuge by impersonating a dentist.
Ambulance Driver
La obra maestra de Harold Lloyd. La escena del genial cómico escalando un edificio supone uno de los momentos más grandes del cine mudo y su clímax -Harold colgado de las manillas del reloj- sigue siendo una de las escenas estelares de la historia del séptimo arte.
Card Player (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.
Prison guard
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.
Abe Silverstein - 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.
A Fireman
Marie's inebriated husband refuses to go to bed, so she asks Snub, a homeless man she finds sleeping in the park, to assist.
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. The eccentric and obsessed street sweeper meticulously disposes of the leaf but when he turns around he finds half the tree has shed its leaves at that very moment
While his wife is shopping, Snub attempts to take a fifteen minute break.
The Doctor (uncredited)
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.
Pub Patron
A top-hatted bill collector is given the unenviable assignment of collecting the debts of a bad-tempered innkeeper.
Hard-Boiled Party
An ambitious coat-room checker impersonates an English nobleman.
The Child's Daddy
A young man, unaccustomed to children, must accompany a young girl on a train trip.
Dope Fiend (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.
(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.
The Lawyer (uncredited)
After numerous failed attempts to commit suicide, our hero (Lloyd) runs into a lawyer who is looking for a stooge to stand in as a groom in order to secure an inheritance for his client (Davis). The inheritance is a house, which her scheming uncle "haunts" so that he can scare them off and claim the property.
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. (From IMDb)
Courtier
A young adventurer trades places with a European prince and falls in love above his station.
Cop
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.
Undertaker
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.
(uncredited)
A salesman takes a job at a department store to impress a girl and winds up stopping a kidnapping.
Elmer - the faithless husband
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.
It's a classic boy-meets-girl story, boy-loses-girl, boy gets mistaken for an escaped convict and ruthlessly chased by armies of cops across the countryside in a thrill-packed stunt-addled climax.
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.
Our hero, a professor in Turkey, challenges a Sultan for the affections of a girl.
Our hero gets a job at a hotel in the country and proceeds to introduce some changes, installing gadgets and time-saving devices.
Actor
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.
Harold invades the "Gilded Guzzle" café, where he appropriates a lady's roll of money, hides under a table and impersonates a cigar store Indian.
Our hero is a janitor in a old age rest home who actually runs the place.
The Photographer (uncredited)
A photo studio operator seems only interested in flirting with women. Hilarity ensues.
Our hero is a police officer who gets involved in a crap game, flirting with a nurse and other amusements.
A man takes a job in a café, hoping to get to know the pretty waitress working there.
Cop / Violinist
A counterfeit count is aided in his courtship of the heroine by her father who is overwhelmed by his "title."
Violinist (uncredited)
Después de soportar una dura travesía, un emigrante europeo se mete en problemas nada más llegar a Nueva York.
Patient (uncredited)
A un prestigioso balneario acuden diferentes personas con el fin de curar sus dolencias. Por allí se deja caer un embriagado Charlot, que hará de las suyas complicando la vida de clientes y empleados.
