Movies: Mark Jones

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....

A young man in New York has exasperated his father because of his constant carousing and irresponsibility, so his father sends him to his uncle's ranch in the west. The young man arrives in the town of Piute Pass, which is being terrorized by Tiger L...

A tipsy doctor encounters his patient sleepwalking on a building ledge, high above the street....

After numerous failed attempts to commit suicide, our hero (Lloyd) runs into a lawyer who is looking for a stooge to stand in as a groom in order to secure an inheritance for his client (Davis). The inheritance is a house, which her scheming uncle "h...

A hypochondriac vacations in the tropics for the fresh air - and finds himself in the middle of a revolution instead....

A young man, unaccustomed to children, must accompany a young girl on a train trip....

Stan plays a waiter at a crappy restaurant and frankly such fare was better done by Chaplin and others. However, in two cute scenes, the film shines. The first is a Limburger cheese bit that is low-brow but funny. The second is the final scene with d...

Paul Parrott plays an obsessive-compulsive bill poster in this thoroughly average Hal Roach comedy from 1923. Hired to help publicize a new Gloria Snootful picture, Paul goes bonkers with glue and paper and ends up attaching promotional material to a...

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...

James Parrott, little Sammy Brooks, Baker and Jones ("the strong guy" = the drunk) are all workers on a construction-sit run by violent and exploitative boss Noah Young and it is a "building a skyscraper" comedy....

Paul Parrott stars as a detective in a hotel trying to recognize a fake sheik...

Pursued by the law, a street cleaner finds refuge by impersonating a dentist....

The misadventures of two intrepid explorers in the Egyptian desert....

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....

A feckless young man who wishes to switch from one streetcar to another is told to follow a pretty young lady-- so he follows her all over town....

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

After getting into a scuffle with his boss and some co-workers, an orange packer tries to help another co-worker, only to wind up in a conflict with him as well. Trying to elude his boss, he heads inside the packing house, and visits with the women w...

An opportunistic umbrella salesman attempts to save a musician and his daughter from blackmail....

Marie's inebriated husband refuses to go to bed, so she asks Snub, a homeless man she finds sleeping in the park, to assist....

James Parrott doing all kinds of handy work....