Movies by Harry A. Pollard

I'll Show You the Town
British comedian Reginald Denny plays a professor who is escorting three different women and needs to make a choice.

Fast Life
Two sailors (William Haines and Cliff Edwards) are leaving the US Navy after 10 years. In their spare time, one of them (Haines) invents a carburetor that should increase the speed that powered boats will run, but all they succeed in doing is sinking the Admiral's barge. After discharge, broke and out of work, they find work with a boat builder who wants the fastest race boat in the world. They design the boat, carburetor and the engine but lack of money and the foreclosure of the business hinders their efforts to prove the new design.

The Invisible Ray
A scientist discovers a death ray and locks it in a box, giving the key to his daughter, who soon finds herself hunted by criminals looking to steal the deadly mineral.

Show Boat
This film sticks very closely to the Edna Ferber novel, rather than the musical based on the novel. There are only two major changes from Ferber's book : *Julie in this version is a white woman, not a racially mixed one; therefore she and her husband are not unlawfully married. * Ravenal returns at the end, instead of dying as in the novel

Sporting Youth
Jimmy Wood, a chauffeur, is mistaken for famous racing driver Splinters Wood. Because he is deeply in debt, he enters a race on the advice of Betty Rockford, daughter of a wealthy automobile manufacturer.

Uncle Tom's Cabin
In 1856, slave Eliza plans to marry George with the consent of the Shelbys, her masters, but George's owner prevents the wedding. A few years later, Eliza flees with her son, Harry, after learning the Shelbys plan to hand them over to a crooked creditor to prevent foreclosure. George also escapes and goes on the run while Eliza and Harry are captured and brought back home. Mother and son are separated as George tries to find them both.
A Fool and His Money
A Fool and His Money part of the Leather Pushers film series. May be actually titled A Fool and Honey
Whipsawed
On the steamer going over to London the "Kid" falls in love with a senator's daughter and his manager is too sick to keep him in any training. After a week or two of training the "Kid" enters the ring only to find that his rival is one of his sparring partners. Knowing all the "Kid's" punches the opponent scores many points during the combat but suffers a punch in the jaw which loosens a tooth. The "Kid" waits for the moment when the terrible fighter must turn his head to spit out the tooth before he gives him the final knock-out punch.

The Prodigal
An aspiring singer, who has fallen on hard times and is now living as a hobo, returns to his wealthy southern family.
Barnaby's Grudge
18th episode in the first 'Leather Pushers' series of two-reel boxing shorts.

Something for Nothing
16th episode in the first 'Leather Pushers' series of two-reel boxing shorts.

Don Coyote
Fifteenth entry in the Leather Pushers series of two-reel shorts.
The Widower's Mite
14th episode in the first 'Leather Pushers' series of two-reel boxing shorts.

The Wandering Two
13th episode in the first 'Leather Pushers' series of two-reel boxing shorts.
Joan of Newark
Twelfth episode in the first 'Leather Pushers' series of two-reel boxing shorts.
Strike Father, Strike Son
Eleventh episode in the first 'Leather Pushers' series of two-reel boxing shorts.

When Kane Met Abel
The "Kid" is in the studio playing the star role in a "super-feature." The director gets his cast to put extra snap into the big scene by making each of the fighters think the other is double crossing him. 10th episode in the first 'Leather Pushers' series of two-reel boxing shorts.

The Chickasha Bone Crusher
Kid Roberts, the champion, thoroughly beats a tough Westerner (from Chickasha, OK) who follows him from city to city, determined to get even. The man taunts the Kid, by insisting that he is afraid to fight without gloves. Finally his wife appears and begs the Kid to refuse to fight her husband because he is neglecting his ranch and family. The Kid's sweetheart and the ranchman's wife do some scheming and succeed in ending the fights, but not until the Kid has beaten his opponent with his bare hands. Ninth episode in the first 'Leather Pusher...
He Raised Kane
Kane, who does not want his father to know he is a fighter, thinking he objects, nearly loses the fight when he sees him at the ringside. In the end, it is the words of encouragement from his father which causes him to win. It develops that the "Kid's" father has known it all the time and has been getting reports on his son's prowess in the ring. Eighth episode in the first 'Leather Pushers' series of two-reel boxing shorts.

Young King Cole
Seventh entry in the Leather Pushers series of two-reel shorts.