Movies: Wally Howe

A group of oil magnates are trying to think of new ways to attract business. One of them suggests that they contact the inventor Pollard, who has devised a new gasoline substitute. Pollard himself lives in a home filled with his eccentric inventions....

John Middleton is investigating cattle rustling when he is captured and tossed into a cave with Emmett, a rancher who disappeared earlier. They help each other escape and learn that a local banker is trying to scare everyone away to grab up some secr...

The film begins with a girl who is supposedly irresistible to all men. Several guys all come to her to pledge their undying love--including Harold Lloyd's brother, Gaylord (who is a dentist). Shortly after this, a new dentist (Snub Pollard) arrives t...

A young adventurer trades places with a European prince and falls in love above his station....

The gang wages war using old vegetables as munitions. Later, they ruin a movie in progress when they double-expose the film....

Eddie, a prim store salesman, gets locked in overnight and battles hoodlums....

Harold and his rival fight over Bebe on her birthday, first at her home and then at a nearby skating rink....

Eddie suspects his wife of having an affair with Snub. Snub, meanwhile, just wants to get to work on time....

A nervy young man follows a pretty lady into a diner to flirt with her, but winds up getting stuck with the tab....

A prosecutor instructs the audience of a courtroom to observe the tearful and slightly hysterical wife (Helen Gilmore) who is sitting in the witness box, and claims she is this way due to her husband, who shows up very infrequently. For the defence ...

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....

Gene and Frog set out to find out who has been causing the accidents at a dam construction site....

Our hero gets a job at a hotel in the country and proceeds to introduce some changes, installing gadgets and time-saving devices....

Pacific pearl diver Duke Slade escapes angry natives by joining a whaler whose dying captain persuades him to marry his daughter who is already being wooed by the first mate....

'Snub' Pollard is an local actor getting a big break in the movie industry, coming home to show off his fame....

This Hal Roach comedy short I found on the "American Slapstick" DVD collection of rare silent comedies starts bizarre and has an anything goes-quality one rarely sees in Mr. Roach's output. It stars Snub Pollard who is initially introduced as a baby ...

Snub puts over some amusing hokum in his efforts to be arrested....

In this 1922 Pathe-distributed, Hal Roach silent-era comedy, the owner of a local streetcar business is in danger of losing his franchise, but the streetcar operator (played by Paul Parrott) and his girl friend (who happens to be the boss's daughter;...

Paul Parrott comedy produced by Hal Roach....

Run ’Em Ragged, Snub Pollard’s 39th starring vehicle, uses familiar slapstick-- Over-the-top make-up, ethnic humor, and a chase across Los Angeles’s Echo Park-- But there is more here than knockabout; Sophisticated sight gags test the limits of the c...