Snub Pollard - unidentified 9.5 clip

[DaveGlass]

OK chaps, here's one to wrestle with...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjNY8Llk ... e=youtu.be

[Michael J Hayde]

If it'll help, the flash titles are:

"Right Dress... Hup!"
"Number!"
"I can still hear someone who is not numbering!"
"Right turn... Hup!"
"Brrr... and don't forget that immobility is the soldier's finest movement."
"Faugh! I swallowed the lot, the moment I opened my mouth to shout 'Shun!'"
"Wait a moment, driver, we've lost Yellowboy on the way."
"Quick march, steady... this civvy of misfortune has got to be caught again."
They had been running for three hours, but the Los Angeles police are never tired.
If Mr and Mrs Sambo have both black skin, they have not always a white conscience.
"If you did not visit the bar so much, you would be fit enough to get through your job and... I've had enough."
"Oh, he.. Shut up, or I'll apply for a divorce."
"Ten bob if you hide me in your basket."
"Have you seen a johnny with a drooping moustache go past here?"
"I've seen a dog go past with its whiskers hanging down and its tail well up... but you can't be looking for him."
Zeal is of no use when bad luck takes a part. Yellowboy has disappeared.
"Give me a hand to load up this big bundle of dirty linen."
"Mrs. Sambo, you're going to see how a dog is received in a game of skittles."
And the fight stopped for want of fighters.

"Mr. Sambo" is Sunshine Sammy. The leading lady (?) is only seen for a couple of seconds, but looks more like Mildred Davis than Marie Mosquini.

Michael

[David Denton]

I think it also looks like Mildred Davis, when she turns her face. I noticed Noah Young. Was Sammy Brooks the small cop?

[Richard M Roberts]

This is TOUGH LUCK, the eighth released (December 21, 1919) Snub Pollard Comedy. That is indeed Mildred Davis playing the leading lady.


RICHARD M ROBERTS

[DaveGlass]

That's great Richard! Thanks!!
Because of Mildred's appearance and Snub being dressed the way he is,
I had been thinking it was possibly GIVING THE BRIDE AWAY.
But I'd also guessed you may have seen one of the surviving prints of that one, somewhere along the line...

[Richard M Roberts]

That's great Richard! Thanks!!
Because of Mildred's appearance and Snub being dressed the way he is,
I had been thinking it was possibly GIVING THE BRIDE AWAY.
But I'd also guessed you may have seen one of the surviving prints of that one, somewhere along the line...

The chase in GIVING THE BRIDE AWAY is with the criminals trying to kill Snub for an insurance policy. There's a MOTION PICTURE NEWS review on TOUGH LUCK describing the police chase.


RICHARD M ROBERTS