Mark Jones

Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for him as director of her next film. Many silent stars shown making the transition to sound.

The penniless tourist, "Appetite Andy" (Paul Parrott) stops by at the Hollywood Cafateria (sic) where the gullible boss (Mark Jones) welcomes him in to sample many of the soups and delicacies available to customers. After savoring many of the dishes, Andy refuses them all and attempts to leave, never intending to pay. The boss is having none of it and drags him back inside and puts him to work in the kitchen. The head chef (Charles Stevenson) is chopping food when the order comes in for chicken to be prepared. He instructs the new employee to grab a chicken (from a crate in the corner) and "prepare" it.

An opportunistic umbrella salesman attempts to save a musician and his daughter from blackmail.

James Parrott doing all kinds of handy work.

James Parrott joins every lodge in town to get in good with people as he tries to sell his fire extinguishers.

The Duff family can't seem to get along with their neighbors, an obsessed policeman and his wife.

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.

James Parrott having a lot of pets destroying the place.

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.

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.

A hypochondriac vacations in the tropics for the fresh air - and finds himself in the middle of a revolution instead.

After getting into a scuffle with his boss and some co-workers, an orange packer tries to help another co-worker, only to wind up in a conflict with him as well. Trying to elude his boss, he heads inside the packing house, and visits with the women who are packing fruit into cases. Then he heads to a storage area, and tries to use the machinery to escape his pursuers.

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.

Hal Roach short is a spoof of the 1923 Western COVERED WAGON, which was a huge hit for Paramount. In this film a group of people are heading out West to Hollywood so they pack up their "wagons" and head out where they must battle various elements including crossing a dangerous river and battling Indians. The "wagons" are actually cars with a cover on them and the Indians even ride in on bicycles so you can tell the type of humor that Roach is going for.

Collars and Cuffs is a 1923 silent comedy film starring Stan Laurel.

Pursued by the law, a street cleaner finds refuge by impersonating a dentist.

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.

A James Parrott comedy short.

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

Nosso herói está apaixonado por uma garota no escritório ao lado. A fim de angariar negócios para seu chefe, um osteopata, ele consegue que um amigo ator finja ferimentos que o médico "cura", construindo assim uma reputação. Quando ele ouve que sua namorada está se casando com outro, ele decide cometer suicídio e passa a maior parte do filme em emocionantes tentativas fracassadas.

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.

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.

A tipsy doctor encounters his patient sleepwalking on a building ledge, high above the street.

Um jovem em Nova York exasperou seu pai por causa de sua farra constante e irresponsabilidade, então seu pai o manda para o rancho de seu tio no oeste. O jovem chega à cidade de Piute Pass, que está sendo aterrorizada por Tiger Lip Tompkins e sua gangue, os Masked Angels. O oriental faz amizade com uma jovem cujo pai está sendo mantido em cativeiro por Tompkins e decide ajudá-la.

Depois de várias tentativas frustradas de suicídio, nosso herói (Lloyd) encontra um advogado que está procurando um fantoche para substituir o noivo a fim de garantir uma herança para seu cliente (Davis). A herança é uma casa, que seu tio intrigante "assombra" para assustá-los e reivindicar a propriedade.