Movies by Harry 'Snub' Pollard

Take a Chance

Take a Chance

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.

From Hand to Mouth

From Hand to Mouth

As a penniless man worries about how he will manage to eat, he is joined by a young waif and her dog, who are in the same predicament. Meanwhile, across town a dishonest lawyer is working with a gang of criminals, trying to swindle an innocent young heiress out of her inheritance. As the heiress is on her way home from the lawyer's office, she notices the young man and the waif in the midst of their latest problem with the authorities, and she rescues them. Later on, the young man will have an unexpected opportunity to repay her for her kind...

Courtship of Miles Sandwich

Courtship of Miles Sandwich

The story of the first Thanksgiving is re-imagined as a father tells it to his son.

One Good Turn

One Good Turn

Down and out Stan and Ollie beg for food from a friendly old lady who provides them with sandwiches. While eating, they overhear the lady's landlord tell her he's going to throw her out because she can't pay her mortgage. They don't realize that the old lady is really rehearsing for a play. Stan and Ollie decide to help the old lady by selling their car. During the auction a drunk puts a wallet in Stan's pocket. Ollie accuses Stan of robbing the old lady, but when the truth is revealed Stan takes revenge on Ollie.

Utah Trail

Utah Trail

Tex and his sidekicks arrive to help out his friend Jeffers, a railroad owner, only to find that he has been killed. They quickly run into trouble with an outlaw gang in their attempt to find the mysterious ghost train that supposedly runs on Jeffer's line.

Rollin' Plains

Rollin' Plains

It's cattlemen versus sheepmen and Trigger Gargan appears to be the leader of the gang causing the trouble. But unknown to Ranger Tex Lawrence, the respected town citizen Barrow is the boss and is tipping off the gang as to the Ranger's activities.

Once Over

Once Over

A pair of rail-riding bums exit their boxcar in the town of Excema, where they get work as waiters and have trouble with clams, bottles of beer, and pies.

Red Hot Hottentotts

Red Hot Hottentotts

Rivalry over a girl in this country moves to the heart of Africa, where the principals get into difficulties with man-eating cannibals.

Why Go Home?

Why Go Home?

'Snub' Pollard and Mildred Davis star in this 1920 comedy short.

It's a Hard Life

It's a Hard Life

A henpecked husband goes out on a series of adventures. He is pursued by cops and detectives and joins the Salvation Army in an effort to escape.

Ex-Flame

Ex-Flame

A woman's uncontrollable jealousy over her husband's former girlfriend results in her losing not only her house but her young son is taken away from her.

Rush Orders

Rush Orders

A typical Pollard-Morrison outing is Rush Orders (1921), in which the pair ride into town on a railroad handcar (with Morrison providing the locomotive muscle). When there it's all about the hustle for food with rivals and advertisement in the café business..

Giving the Bride Away

Giving the Bride Away

A comedy short starring Mildred Davis & 'Snub' Pollard

Getting His Goat

Getting His Goat

A comedy short directed by Charley Chase.

Order in the Court

Order in the Court

Snub is confronted by his creditors who have joined the profiteers. He then escapes from them only to be pressed into jury service, which has its brighter side when he finds himself seated beside a fair member of the jury. The fun commences when all his creditors are marched into court charged with profiteering, and as foreman of the jury Snub gives out the verdict of "Guilty."

Starlight Over Texas

Starlight Over Texas

Tex has been sent to investigate the theft of government provisions along the border. Kildare is the leader of the outlaw gang and has his men posing as Indians. He has already killed the incoming Marshal and assumed his identity. When Tex asks too many questons, he plans to get rid of him also.

Vitamin 'U' for Me

Vitamin 'U' for Me

Dr. Whoozis' vitamin and exercise routine turn young girls into super-charged pin-up models

The Black Coin

The Black Coin

Government agents try to thwart smugglers, while some sort of plot unfolds, about a hidden treasure revealed by cursed coins.

A Sammy in Siberia

A Sammy in Siberia

A bumbling American soldier saves a girl from a bunch of Cossacks.

Pistols for Breakfast

Pistols for Breakfast

A 1919 Comedy short.