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Oh and Brent could I get some jpegs of your Stars & stripes images as I am really trying to put all of these Hallroom Boys in some sort of accurate list since I have lots of them......Speaking of Sid Smith is anyone familiar with the title in the final image? One Spooky Knight ? its a 2 reeler ...

Might the kid be Sonny Bupp?

Not to mention that he had his own Spanish galleon (I presume it was a scale model replica).

Yes, I remember AIR TIGHT being shot further south and looking north, and I don't know whether I've seen TEN MINUTE EGG. I was mainly concerned with the LIZZIES OF THE FIELD shot, and that looks like a bit north of there, based on the the beach line and other factors. Much of those cliffs have erode...

Hi Tommie! That was Ed "Bud" Flanagan (not to be confused with the British comedian by that name, of Flanagan & Allen) who with Neely Edwards actually were the guys who played the Hallroom Boys in vaudeville, and brought the characters to film. By the way, Ed Flanagan was Dennis O'Keef...

I'm surprised you didn't wonder why Thomas Hardy was suing the king of Irish comedians.

Actually, Chris, it's in Pacific Palisades, just southwest of Temescal Canyon Road, an area called Palisades Park where there is now a street called Via de Las Olas (there was no street then). I first visited and figured out the location in the early 1980's, but I revisited in in 1999 or 2000 to pho...

Actually, the ones with "Gil Wells" (i.e. the guy in the glasses) were prior to George Williams, because the one that I can confirm from stills is STARS AND STRIPES (1921). From this description though, CONJUROR JAMES sounds like a different film from that one.

Oops - for the name I've seen connected I meant to write Gilbert Wells, not Gilbert Williams. Steve Steve, the name "Gil Wells" came from a copy of a still I have which I made from the scrapbook of Jack Mintz (assistant director/writer/bit player/dog trainer on the Hallroom Boys series). ...

Richard, thanks for the review. I'm going to have to check out one of the Jiggs and Maggies as I haven't seen any. I'm also still waiting to see my first Walter Catlett/Raymond Walburn "Henry the Rainmaker" series film among the other Monogram comedy series. I have seen a couple of the &qu...