Movies by Charley Chase
When Spirits Move
A 1920 Silent comedy
Courtship of Miles Sandwich
The story of the first Thanksgiving is re-imagined as a father tells it to his son.
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.
Four Parts
Charley is one of four identical brothers, which drives his girlfriend nuts.
He's In Again
A tramp enters a cabaret and orders a drink, but then is thrown out when he cannot pay for it. After trying again, he is told by the manager that if he wants to avoid being charged and sent to jail, he will have to work.
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..
Getting His Goat
A comedy short directed by Charley Chase.
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."
Don't Rock the Boat
Don't Rock the Boat
Hearts and Sparks
Hearts and Sparks is a 1916 American silent comedy film directed by Charles Parrott (Charley Chase) and starring Gloria Swanson. When Mack Sennett first saw Gloria Swanson, he felt that she would be right as a romantic lead for Bobby Vernon because they were both small in stature. This was their first film together and they proved to be a big hit with the public.
A Dash of Courage
A band of crooks, headed by Harry Gribbon, are on a train when they learn of a telegram sent to a fellow passenger, who is a police commissioner. The wire identifies him as official collector for the Old Cops' Home. A little chloroform does for him and when the train pulls out of his destination he is still on board while Gribbon is posing as the commissioner-collector.
Waltz Me Around
Delivery man 'Snub' Pollard and his assistant Sunshine Sammy nearly run over Marie Mosquini in the street and ends up at dance school.
The Dumb-Bell
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.
Chased Into Love
The will of T.W. Glutz provides that his bashful nephew, Hank, will inherit the entire estate if married by 2 P.M. of a certain date. Hank loves a girl who lives fifty miles away, but his uncle's executor, a lawyer, arranges a marriage with a somewhat antiquated home product. At 1 P.M. on the appointed day, Hank is sleeping off the effects of the night before. He wakens with a fever, a raging thirst, and an awful taste, when the lawyer enters and tells him the bride is waiting. "And my heart is fifty miles away," sadly muses Hank.
His Merry Mix-Up
A summer hotel is a magnet for young marrieds as well as other couples looking to rekindle the spark. Charley Chicken Lover, the hotel proprietor, finds himself smitten with one of the newlywed brides as does another guest despite the presence of his wife and a merry chase of crossed signals and misunderstandings commences!
The Cloud Puncher
It hasn't rained for week and there are no symptoms of coming rain to be found. An itinerant artist carrying a huge canvas rambles along a country road. He reaches the hut of a hermit inventor who is dying of thirst. The artist paints a picture of a reservoir so realistically that the water overflows and fills a cup which he holds in his hand.
There's Many a Fool
A two part comedy starring Hank Mann and Carmen Phillips, based on the 1909 play A Fool There Was by Porter Emerson Browne.