The best 'Snub' Pollard’s comedy movies

'Snub' Pollard

'Snub' Pollard

09/11/1889- 19/01/1962
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Singin' in the Rain

Singin' in the Rain
8.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusicRomance
  • Release: 09/04/1952
  • Character: Old Man Getting Umbrella in "Singin' in the Rain" Number (uncredited)
In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound.

Miracle on 34th Street

Miracle on 34th Street
7.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaFamily
  • Release: 11/06/1947
  • Character: Final Mail-Bearing Court Officer (uncredited)
Kris Kringle, seemingly the embodiment of Santa Claus, is asked to portray the jolly old fellow at Macy's following his performance in the Thanksgiving Day parade. His portrayal is so complete that many begin to question if he truly is Santa Claus, while others question his sanity.

Pocketful of Miracles

Pocketful of Miracles
7.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 18/12/1961
  • Character: Knuckles (uncredited)
Boozy, brassy Apple Annie, a beggar with a basket of apples, is as much a part of downtown New York as old Broadway itself. Bootlegger Dave the Dude is a sucker for her apples -- he thinks they bring him luck. But Dave and girlfriend Queenie Martin need a lot more than luck when it turns out that Annie is in a jam and only they can help: Annie's daughter Louise, who has lived all her life in a Spanish convent, is coming to America with a Count and his son. The count's son wants to marry Louise, who thinks her mother is part of New York society. It's up to Dave and Queenie and their cronies to turn Annie into a lady and convince the Count and his son that they are hobnobbing with New York's elite.

Adam's Rib

Adam's Rib
7.4/10
When a woman attempts to kill her uncaring husband, prosecutor Adam Bonner gets the case. Unfortunately for him his wife Amanda (who happens to be a lawyer too) decides to defend the woman in court. Amanda uses everything she can to win the case and Adam gets mad about it. As a result, their perfect marriage is disturbed by everyday quarrels.

Casanova Brown

Casanova Brown
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 23/08/1944
  • Character: Father at Baby Window (uncredited)
Cass Brown is about to marry for the second time; his first marriage, to Isabel was annulled. But when he discovers that Isabel just had their baby, Cass kidnaps the infant to keep her from being adopted. Isabel's parents hunt for the child and discover that Cass and Isabel are still hopelessly in love.

Bumping Into Broadway

Bumping Into Broadway
6.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 02/11/1919
  • Character: The Musical Comedy's Director
A young playwright spends his last cent to pay the past-due rent for the pretty dancer who's his boarding house next-door neighbor. Soon after, he winds up at a gambling club, where he wins big - just before a police raid.

Road to Utopia

Road to Utopia
7.1/10
While on a ship to Skagway, Alaska, Duke and Chester find a map to a secret gold mine, which had been 'stolen' by thugs. In Alaska to recover her father's map, Sal Van Hoyden falls in with Ace Larson, who secretly wants to steal the gold mine for himself. Duke, Chester, the thugs, Ace and his henchman chase each other all over the countryside—for the map.

Hollywood Cavalcade

Hollywood Cavalcade
6.5/10
Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for him as director of her next film. Many silent stars shown making the transition to sound.

The Purchase Price

The Purchase Price
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 23/07/1932
  • Character: Harmonica Player Joe Atterbury (uncredited)
Nightclub singer Joan Gordon runs away from her gangster boyfriend to become a mail-order bride to a struggling North Dakota farmer. Their relationship has a rocky start, but just as Joan realizes she's developing feelings for her husband, her old boyfriend arrives to win her back.

Police

Police
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 27/05/1916
  • Character: First Flophouse Customer
Charlie is released from prison and immediately swindled by a fake parson. A fellow ex-convict convinces Charlie to help burglarize a house.

The Perils of Pauline

The Perils of Pauline
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 04/07/1947
  • Character: Western Saloon Set Propman (as Snub Pollard)
Funloving Pearl White, working in a garment sweatshop, gets her big chance when she "opens" for a delayed Shakespeare play...with a comic vaudeville performance. Her brief stage career leads her into those "horrible" moving pictures, where she comes to love the chaotic world of silent movies, becoming queen of the serials. But the consequences of movie stardom may be more than her leading man can take

It Happened in Flatbush

It Happened in Flatbush
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 28/05/1942
  • Character: Baseball Game Spectator (uncredited)
A washed up baseball player returns to Brooklyn to manage his old team but an old sports reporter is eager to prove that he is a looser.

Ghosts on the Loose

Ghosts on the Loose
5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 30/07/1943
  • Character: Flower Delivery Man
The East Side Kids try to fix up a house for newlyweds, but find the place next door "haunted" by mysterious men.

Stingaree

Stingaree
5.8/10
A young lady named Hilda who works as a servant for the wealthy Clarksons, sheep farmers, and dreams of being a great singer. An upcoming visit by Sir Julian, a famous composer arriving from London, drives jealous Mrs. Clarkson (an interfering biddy who fancies she can sing - but can't) to send away Hilda, so he doesn't hear Hilda has a good voice. Meanwhile, an infamous outlaw named Stingaree has just arrived in town and kidnaps Sir Julian, then poses as him at the Clarksons, where he meets Hilda a few hours before she is to leave.

From Hand to Mouth

From Hand to Mouth
6.9/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 28/12/1919
  • Character: The Kidnapper
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 kindness.

Bashful

Bashful
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 23/12/1917
  • Character: Snub the Butler
In order to claim his inheritance, our hero must first produce a wife and family.

Booby Dupes

Booby Dupes
7.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 18/10/1945
  • Character: Ice Cream Vendor
The stooges are three fish peddlers who decide to cut out the middleman by catching their own fish. They trade their car and $300 for a "new" boat which turns out to be a piece of junk that soon falls apart and sinks in the middle of the ocean. Luckily the boys also have a row boat which they climb into and then try to signal some passing planes for help. Unfortunately, their paint spattered rag is mistaken for a Japanese flag and they are bombed from the sky.

'Neath Brooklyn Bridge

'Neath Brooklyn Bridge
5.9/10
The East Side Kids find a young girl in the apartment of a man who has just been murdered. Believing her to be innocent, they hide her in their clubhouse while they try to find the real killer. The killer, however, used a baseball bat as his murder weapon, and the bat has the fingerprints of one of the gang on it.

The Marathon

The Marathon
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 25/05/1919
  • Character: Snub
Boy trying to impress girl, gets chased by her father and the police right into an ongoing marathon.

A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob

A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 14/03/1941
  • Character: Wedding Chapel Attendant (uncredited)
Steve is a shy quiet man who is an executive for a shipping firm. He meets Dot at the Opera where she had his seats and the next day she shows up as his temporary secretary. Then Coffee Cup comes to town to see Dot, his gal. When Steven is with Cecilia, everything is boring. When he is with Dot and Coffee Cup, everything is exciting and he falls for Dot. But Coffee is getting out of the Navy in a few days and he plans to marry Dot.

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