Snub Pollard
Harry "Snub" Pollard (9 November 1889 – 19 January 1962) was a silent film comedian, popular in the 1920s. Often mistaken as the brother of Australian actress Daphne Pollard, in fact the two were not related despite their shared surname. Harry Pollard was born as Harold Fraser and took the name Pollard as his stage name. In addition, the two both acted with "Pollard's Lilliputian Opera Co." in Australia, which gave stage performances featuring children and performers of small stature. This was a very well known troupe in its time, and many of its performers adopted the surname "Pollard". Pollard played supporting roles in the early films of Harold Lloyd. The long-faced Pollard sported a Kaiser Wilhelm mustache turned upside-down; this became his trademark. Lloyd's producer, Hal Roach, gave Pollard his own starring series of one- and two-reel shorts. The most famous is 1923's It's a Gift, in which he plays an inventor of many Rube Goldberg-like contraptions, including a car that runs by magnet power. Pollard left Roach in 1924 and joined the low-budget Weiss Brothers studio in 1926.
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King of the Bandits
This marked Gilbert Roland’s final turn under the sombrero of the Cisco Kid. U.S. Marshals pursue Cisco when he catches blame for an imposter’s string of stagecoach robberies. Cisco and Pancho elude the law long enough to catch the real robbers in order to clear themselves of...Watch Movie
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From Hand to Mouth
With its large ensemble cast and elaborate location shooting, FROM HAND TO MOUTH signals Harold Lloyd’s mature phase following innumerable one-reelers. He begins the film on the skids, salting a chicken bone as he eyes a lunch counter. Lured into a kidnapping scheme, Lloyd’s...Watch Movie
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Bumping Into Broadway
Harold Lloyd’s first "glass character" two-reeler, BUMPING INTO BROADWAY stars Lloyd and Bebe Daniels as theatrical hopefuls. He's a playwright; she's a chorus girl. The action is fierce as Harold attempts to save Bebe from a wicked society chap and gets into lots of trouble...Watch Movie
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Captain Kidd's Kids
After a popular run making shorts as the Chaplin-esque “Lonesome Luke,” Harold Lloyd had just started making films in what he termed his “glasses” character, the bespectacled milquetoast we remember him for, when he starred in this early classic. His hero wakes up hungover...Watch Movie
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His Royal Slyness
A special opportunity to see the Lloyd brothers, Harold and Gaylord, work together. Harold, a book agent, bears an uncanny resemblance to the Prince of Razzamatazz (Gaylord). The two switch places and Harold travels to Thermosa where he falls in love with a princess (Mildred...Watch Movie
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The City Slicker
The Punkville Motel is "twenty years behind the Battle of Bull Run," a dusty place with a cantankerous clientele. Enter Harold Lloyd’s "glasses" character tasked with dressing the place up. A few tablecloths and modern gadgets seem to do the job. However, when a fetching belle...Watch Movie
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The Non-Stop Kid
Harold Lloyd's "glasses" character bests the town's eligible bachelors for his sweetheart's affections but the girl's father has designs on Professor Noodle for a husband. Lloyd tricks the family into thinking he's the scholarly sort (at least until the real Noodle walks...Watch Movie
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Two Gun Gussie
When Sheriff Whooping-Cough Charlie mistakes Harold Lloyd's hapless piano player for a gunslinger, Lloyd learns that being a tough dude is all an act. That is, until he runs into the real thing at the bar! The place goes to pieces, but there's time for a kiss before this wild one-reeler is through.Watch Movie
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Ring Up the Curtain
Harold Lloyd's "glasses" character tends bar at an opera house where a traveling performance company is due to perform. The show must go on if the curtains can't go up. Trapping a snake is a piece of cake next to winning the main actresses' heart: for Lloyd’s sweet naïf,...Watch Movie
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All Wet
"Snub" Pollard plays a hick whose pa packs him off to his aunt's home in the big city. He fits in awkwardly with her hoity society world. News of his oil-well inheritance makes the more mercenary flappers pay attention, notably a vampish cousin (named Cleopatra, no less). It's a funny...Watch Movie
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The Silent Partner
Comedic genius Buster Keaton plays a former silent-film star named Kelsey Dutton. Dutton watches the Academy Awards® on television in a bar; in flashbacks, Keaton re-enacts Dutton's silent comedies. The silent-film parody is close enough to Keaton's old work to be poignant and...Watch Movie
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The Man with the Golden Arm
Otto Preminger extracts a powerful performance from Frank Sinatra as Frankie Machine, a former drug addicted card dealer just out of detox and trying to establish a new career as a jazz drummer. Back in his old neighborhood Frankie finds it difficult to stay clean faced with...Watch Movie
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