Mark Jones
Рождение : 1889-12-09, Los Angeles, California, USA
Смерть : 1965-04-14
История
Mark Jones was born on December 9, 1889 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Why Worry? (1923), Never Weaken (1921) and Family Life (1924). He was married to Edna Mae. He died on April 14, 1965 in Los Angeles.
Keystone Kop
В 1913 году работник киностудии Майкл Коннорс увидел в постановке на Бродвее Молли Адэр. Очарованный ее красотой и талантом, он уговаривает ее оставить театр и уехать с ним в Калифорнию, где в то время начинает развиваться киноиндустрия. Став сценаристом и режиссером фильмов с Молли в главной роли, он делает из нее звезду... Сюжет замешан на биографии Макка Сеннетта и Мэйбл Норманд. В фильме снимались в роли самих себя многие звёзды немого кино. В имени главного героя заменили всего две буквы. Изменены названия студий. Скандал с загадочным убийством Уильяма Тейлора заменен на автомобильную катастрофу и по-мелочи. Но много и придуманного. Мэйбл Норманд не была звездой Бродвея и попала в кинематограф без помощи Макка Сеннетта. Макк Сеннетт в фильме встречается со своим «двойником» в молодости. Фантастическая концовка ‒ никакого триумфального прорыва в звуковое кино в реальности не было.
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.
Worried
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.
Mr. Duff
The Duff family can't seem to get along with their neighbors, an obsessed policeman and his wife.
Swindler
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.
Cross-eyed Barber
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.
Mounted Captain
A hypochondriac vacations in the tropics for the fresh air - and finds himself in the middle of a revolution instead.
Worker
Комедия, о том, что случилось однажды на цитрусовой плантации. Множество смешных ударов, падений, путаниц, бросаний - как апельсинов, так и ящиков, людей и всего прочего...
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.
Foreman
Collars and Cuffs is a 1923 silent comedy film starring Stan Laurel.
Dental Patient
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.
The Musical Cop
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
The Acrobat
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.
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.
Hotel Bellboy Number 2 (uncredited)
Гарольд великолепен в своих чудачествах. На этот раз он их творит во врачебном кабинете. А вот в соседнем кабинете, где его друг установил самогонный аппарат, коварный алкоголь сыграл с обоими злую шутку. Напившись, друзья решили прогуляться. Вот только простой прогулкой это никак нельзя назвать...
(uncredited)
Родители отправляют своего непутевого сына на ранчо к дяде. Там, согласно их замыслу, он должен начать праведную жизнь и стать настоящим мужчиной. Возможно смена обстановки и новые знакомства должны будут повлиять на ветреного повесу. Но не тут-то было. По приезду их сын попадает в еще более комичные ситуации, которые похоже его находят больше, чем он их...
Kitchen Staff Member (uncredited)
Девушка получит наследство, если проживёт в фамильном доме год. Но злобный родственник хочет выжить её оттуда, чтобы присвоить наследство себе. Гарольд поможет девушке.
