Sunshine Sammy Morrison

Sunshine Sammy Morrison

Ernie 'Sunshine Sammy' Morrison (born Ernest Fredric Morrison) was a popular African American child actor of the Silent films era. Leaving the screen in 1926, he eventually returned for a time, from 1940 to 1944.

  • Title: Sunshine Sammy Morrison
  • Popularity: 4.507
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1912-12-20
  • Place of Birth: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
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  • Also Known As: Sammy Morrison, Little Sambo, Smiling Sambo, Sambo, Sunshine Sammy, Ernest Fredric Morrison, Ernest 'Sunshine Sammy' Morrison, Hal Roach's Rascals, Ernie Morrison
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Sunshine Sammy Morrison Movies

  • 1940
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    Fugitive from a Prison Camp

    Fugitive from a Prison Camp

    1 1940 HD

    Sheriff Holt is determined to prove that prisoners can be rehabilitated and released into society in this prison drama. In charge of a new kind of...

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  • 1941
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    Spooks Run Wild

    Spooks Run Wild

    4.8 1941 HD

    A group of delinquents on their way to summer camp get stuck in a haunted house.

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  • 1941
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    Bowery Blitzkrieg

    Bowery Blitzkrieg

    6.1 1941 HD

    The East Side Kids discover that one of their own, Danny, is torn between staying in school and becoming a boxer, and is getting mixed up with...

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  • 1994
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    The Our Gang Story

    The Our Gang Story

    1 1994 HD

    Join all you favorites--Spanky, Buckwheat, Alfalfa, Darla, Butch, Froggy and more--in a jam-packed special covering more than twenty years and 200...

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  • 1922
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    A Quiet Street

    A Quiet Street

    6.2 1922 HD

    The gang mistakenly believes a police patrol is after them for beating up a cop's boy; they wind up encountering the police's real quarry: Red Mike.

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  • 1923
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    The Big Show

    The Big Show

    5.8 1923 HD

    The gang creates its own makeshift county fair, highlighted by a "movie," which is really a clever stage performance.

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  • 1922
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    Saturday Morning

    Saturday Morning

    6.2 1922 HD

    The Rascals, feeling unloved at home, decide to become pirates. Meanwhile, a mother, an aunt and a valet join the cops in searching for the runaways.

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  • 1920
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    Don't Rock the Boat

    Don't Rock the Boat

    1 1920 HD

    Snub Pollard and Sunshine Sammy Morrison are on a storm tossed ship that soon sinks leaving the pair stranded on a nearby island where comic...

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  • 1920
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    Live and Learn

    Live and Learn

    1 1920 HD

    Snub Pollard comedy

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  • 1926
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    Between Meals

    Between Meals

    1 1926 HD

    James Parrott & Ernest Morrison gets chased around a lot. Filmed in 1921 and copyrighted in 1922, but not released until 1926.

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  • 1943
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    Ghosts on the Loose

    Ghosts on the Loose

    4.2 1943 HD

    The East Side Kids try to fix up a house for newlyweds, but find the place next door "haunted" by mysterious men.

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  • 1919
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    The Old Maid's Baby

    The Old Maid's Baby

    1 1919 HD

    Christine, known as Tiny, whose mother eloped with a circus clown and became a parachutist, spends most of her time with her lame dog and an elephant.

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  • 1919
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    The Sawdust Doll

    The Sawdust Doll

    1 1919 HD

    Sally Lou, the small daughter of village blacksmith Jim Davis, uses her sawdust doll to take the place of a real mother.

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  • 1991
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    Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook

    Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook

    10 1991 HD

    A history of the famous vampire of books and movies, using film clips, previews and other methods.

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  • 1943
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    Clancy Street Boys

    Clancy Street Boys

    7.3 1943 HD

    Muggs' rich Uncle Pete is coming to visit. Unfortunately, Muggs' late father had bragged that he had seven kids, so Muggs recruits the members of the...

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  • 1917
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    Captain Kiddo

    Captain Kiddo

    1 1917 HD

    Marie and her friend Billy are playing pirates and Marie is the pirate and Billy is her assistant. Marie's widowed mother becomes engaged to Mr....

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  • 1920
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    Get Out and Get Under

    Get Out and Get Under

    6.3 1920 HD

    The comic adventures of a new car owner.

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  • 1922
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    The Non-Skid Kid

    The Non-Skid Kid

    5 1922 HD

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  • 1918
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    Dolly Does Her Bit

    Dolly Does Her Bit

    1 1918 HD

    Dolly lives with her aunt, who is a seamstress. The child is sent home from school because she has been naughty, and finds her aunt in the act of...

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  • 1919
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    Call for Mr. Caveman

    Call for Mr. Caveman

    4.5 1919 HD

    A giant cave man kidnaps beautiful Adorable from the cave clan and the man who rescues her can have her hand and a new suit of clothes.

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  • 1920
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    Drink Hearty

    Drink Hearty

    1 1920 HD

    Snub conducts a blind pig in a barn, where the village cronies gather for their "licker," and the place is raided by revenue officers.

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  • 1922
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    Full o' Pep

    Full o' Pep

    1 1922 HD

    The monkey gland operation is about to be performed upon Snub. A flash-back shows how the lack of pep has affected his spirits. While under ether he...

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  • 1920
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    Waltz Me Around

    Waltz Me Around

    4.5 1920 HD

    Delivery man 'Snub' Pollard and his assistant Sunshine Sammy nearly run over Marie Mosquini in the street and ends up at dance school.

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  • 1922
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    The Sleuth

    The Sleuth

    1 1922 HD

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

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  • 1926
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    Soft Pedal

    Soft Pedal

    1 1926 HD

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

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  • 1920
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    Run 'Em Ragged

    Run 'Em Ragged

    5 1920 HD

    Run ’Em Ragged, Snub Pollard’s 39th starring vehicle, uses familiar slapstick-- Over-the-top make-up, ethnic humor, and a chase across...

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  • 1920
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    Park Your Car

    Park Your Car

    4 1920 HD

    A once-act farce about two neighbours who purchase a car that they can use to go on drives with their wives.

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  • 1921
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    Big Game

    Big Game

    1 1921 HD

    While attempting to hunt a formidable Peruvian Duck, Snub Pollard and Ernest Morrison inadvertently come to the aid of a kidnapped tourist.

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  • 1940
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    I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby

    I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby

    6 1940 HD

    In I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby, Broderick Crawford plays a sentimental gangster who abducts songwriter Johnny Downs and forces him to...

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  • 1923
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    The Champeen

    The Champeen

    6.1 1923 HD

    Mickey and Jackie feud over Mary, so Sammy schedules a championship bout between the two rivals.

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  • 1921
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    Rush Orders

    Rush Orders

    1 1921 HD

    A typical Pollard-Morrison outing is Rush Orders (1921), in which the pair ride into town on a railroad handcar (with Morrison providing the...

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  • 1923
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    The Cobbler

    The Cobbler

    6 1923 HD

    A cobbler receives his back pension and invites the gang to celebrate with a picnic, but his car stalls along the way.

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  • 1923
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    A Pleasant Journey

    A Pleasant Journey

    5.9 1923 HD

    Ernie and Farina anger the police force with their shoeshine scheme. Later, the gang switches places with some runaways about to board a train.

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  • 1921
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    Name the Day

    Name the Day

    1 1921 HD

    Snub Pollard and Marie Mosquini are to be married, with Ernie Morrison as their best man. It's the usual gag-filled Pollard one-reeler, with William...

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  • 1922
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    One Terrible Day

    One Terrible Day

    4.5 1922 HD

    Mrs. Pennington Van Renssalaer, a publicity-minded society matron, sponsors a children's outing, much to her and her chauffeur's eventual regret.

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  • 1940
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    Pride of the Bowery

    Pride of the Bowery

    6.1 1940 HD

    Muggs is tricked into entering a Civilian Conservation Corps camp by Danny in order to get in shape. Muggs resists and battles with the camp captain...

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  • 1942
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    'Neath Brooklyn Bridge

    'Neath Brooklyn Bridge

    6.8 1942 HD

    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...

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  • 1921
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    Whirl o' the West

    Whirl o' the West

    1 1921 HD

    A tenderfoot arrives in a western town and the inhabitants give him a rough time.

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  • 1921
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    The Pickaninny

    The Pickaninny

    1 1921 HD

    The comical, classic movie of the big city misadventures of Little Casino.

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  • 1940
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    Boys of the City

    Boys of the City

    5.4 1940 HD

    Street kids get sent to the country, where they get mixed up in murder and a haunted house.

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  • 1940
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    Gang War

    Gang War

    5.8 1940 HD

    Two mobs fight for control of the jukebox racket.

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  • 1941
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    Flying Wild

    Flying Wild

    5.9 1941 HD

    A group of young men who work at an aviation factory begin to suspect that a doctor who runs an air ambulance service is secretly a spy transporting...

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  • 1920
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    The Dippy Dentist

    The Dippy Dentist

    5.2 1920 HD

    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...

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  • 1922
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    Fire Fighters

    Fire Fighters

    5.7 1922 HD

    The gang forms a fire department; they end up thwarting a bootlegger, but not before their pet animals get drunk on his moonshine.

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  • 1940
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    That Gang of Mine

    That Gang of Mine

    5.6 1940 HD

    A street kid has dreams of becoming a jockey. He gets his chance when he and his gang discover a poor old man who has a championship race horse. The...

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  • 1923
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    Lodge Night

    Lodge Night

    5.8 1923 HD

    This one has to be seen to be believed. Apparently the gang has witnessed a Ku Klux Klan meeting. They decide to form their own lodge. They call...

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  • 1924
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    Seein' Things

    Seein' Things

    5.8 1924 HD

    At the start we learn that Farina is suffering nightmares each time he eats meat. His mom tells him to stay away from the stuff but he loves it so...

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  • 1923
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    Back Stage

    Back Stage

    6.5 1923 HD

    The gang operates a donkey-propelled tour bus. Later, a cut-rate vaudeville producer hires them to help out with his show, which they wreck.

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  • 1923
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    Stage Fright

    Stage Fright

    5.8 1923 HD

    Author Fawn Ochletree stages a charity performance of her latest play, a Romanesque epic. The gang and other neighborhood kids are forced into...

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  • 1924
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    Fast Company

    Fast Company

    5.8 1924 HD

    Fast Company is the sixteenth short in the "Our Gang/Little Rascals" series created by Hal Roach. Many of the boys here want to go swimming but...

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  • 1924
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    Big Business

    Big Business

    5.8 1924 HD

    In this short the kids are managing their own barber shop, with harrowing results. No one gets hurt, but most of the customers wind up bald or close...

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  • 1923
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    Derby Day

    Derby Day

    5.6 1923 HD

    After the gang goes to the horse races, they decide to have a derby of their own.

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  • 1924
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    Commencement Day

    Commencement Day

    5.8 1924 HD

    Centering around the closing days of the school year, this is a view into the life of a one-room schoolhouse. This type of learning institution has...

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  • 1924
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    The 'Fraidy Cat

    The 'Fraidy Cat

    6.8 1924 HD

    Jimmy Jump is a coward. Everyone and everything makes him afraid. He cowers from the neighborhood children, even though he's old enough to be their...

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  • 1924
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    The Buccaneers

    The Buccaneers

    6.2 1924 HD

    This Our Gang short has the group playing pirates and building a ship to sail in. Once the ship hits water it sinks but they end up on another boat...

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  • 1923
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    July Days

    July Days

    6.1 1923 HD

    The gang is trying just about anything to pass the time during their summer vacation. As usual, Mickey and Jack are trying to win the affections of...

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  • 1943
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    Kid Dynamite

    Kid Dynamite

    6.6 1943 HD

    The East Side boxing champion Muggs answers a challenge to a fight against the West Side champ but just before the match he is kidnapped. His friend...

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  • 1924
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    Tire Trouble

    Tire Trouble

    5.8 1924 HD

    This Hal Roach comedy short, Tire Trouble, is the twenty-second entry in the "Our Gang/Little Rascals" series. In this one, Mickey drives his own...

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  • 1924
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    Cradle Robbers

    Cradle Robbers

    5.8 1924 HD

    The boys cannot go fishing because they have to take care of their baby brothers and sisters. After trying unsuccessfully to sell their babies to...

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  • 1923
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    Dogs of War!

    Dogs of War!

    5.5 1923 HD

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

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  • 1922
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    Our Gang

    Our Gang

    6.278 1922 HD

    An unethical merchant moves into town and steals customers from the widowed owner of an established store; the gang steps in to help.

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  • 1922
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    Young Sherlocks

    Young Sherlocks

    7.2 1922 HD

    The Mystic J.J.J.'s challenge Ernie's bravery; he spins a tale of saving a rich young girl from kidnappers and of creating a utopia called Freetown.

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  • 1923
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    Boys to Board

    Boys to Board

    5 1923 HD

    A kindly old schoolteacher helps the gang escape from a cruel boarding school, but they wind up in a bootlegger's booby-trapped house.

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  • 1923
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    Giants vs. Yanks

    Giants vs. Yanks

    5.6 1923 HD

    The gang, after a premature end to their baseball game, find themselves quarantined in an elegant home, which they proceed to destroy.

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  • 1923
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    Sunday Calm

    Sunday Calm

    5.8 1923 HD

    The kids gets taken on a Sunday picnic in this early three-reeler and after the first ten minutes, manage to elude the adults in this typically...

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  • 1924
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    It's a Bear

    It's a Bear

    5.9 1924 HD

    The kids pretend to be hunting a variety of animals when they're invited to a farm where they try to capture real game. This gets boring after a...

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  • 1942
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    Let's Get Tough

    Let's Get Tough

    6 1942 HD

    Rejected by the Army, Marines, and Navy for being too young, the punks help the war effort by throwing fruit at a shop they believe is owned by a...

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  • 1920
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    All Lit Up

    All Lit Up

    5 1920 HD

    Snub goes butterfly hunting in Grffith Park and catches Marie Mosquini by accident. They go to a café where all the men have a lot of hair on...

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  • 1920
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    Any Old Port

    Any Old Port

    1 1920 HD

    Captain Dandy (Snub Pollard) is about to sail and arrives on the dock where several women take turns to individually say goodbye to him (the last one...

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  • 1920
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    Call a Taxi

    Call a Taxi

    1 1920 HD

    After being ejected from an establishment for being drunk and disorderly, George Rowe, Sammy Brooks, Hughie Mack and Snub Pollard form a drunken...

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  • 1920
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    Grab the Ghost

    Grab the Ghost

    1 1920 HD

    As tens of guests pile out of a wedding ceremony a jilted and bitter rival (Eddie Boland) vows revenge on the new bride. The wedding limo pulls off...

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  • 1920
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    Cash Customers

    Cash Customers

    1 1920 HD

    Snub Pollard (sans moustache) and Hughie Mack are tenants sharing a bed in a small hotel. They wake up at 6am and prepare breakfast with two eggs...

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  • 1920
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    Cracked Wedding Bells

    Cracked Wedding Bells

    1 1920 HD

    'Snub' Pollard in a lot of wedding problems.

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  • 1921
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    High Rollers

    High Rollers

    3.5 1921 HD

    An auto accident hurls Snub into a skating rink, where he encounters Rowe and Marie. Among the various slip-and-falling going on, two frisky escaped...

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  • 1926
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    Don't Butt In

    Don't Butt In

    1 1926 HD

    James Parrott doing all kinds of handy work.

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  • 1920
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    Haunted Spooks

    Haunted Spooks

    6.2 1920 HD

    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...

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  • 1922
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    Penrod

    Penrod

    1 1922 HD

    Young rapscallion Penrod Schofield causes a good deal of trouble in his community, all in the name of protecting kids from too-strict parents and...

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  • 1942
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    In This Our Life

    In This Our Life

    6.7 1942 HD

    An unhappy, self-centered woman runs off with her sister's husband, wreaking havoc and ruining the lives of those around her.

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  • 1920
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    Number, Please?

    Number, Please?

    6.6 1920 HD

    While at an amusement park, trying vainly to forget the girl he has lost, a young man sees the girl with her new boyfriend. When her dog gets loose...

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  • 1919
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    Start Something

    Start Something

    1 1919 HD

    Snub is a traffic cop and succeeds in mixing things up by trying to flirt with every pretty girl motorist.

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  • 1919
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    Giving the Bride Away

    Giving the Bride Away

    1 1919 HD

    A comedy short starring Mildred Davis & 'Snub' Pollard

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  • 1919
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    Tough Luck

    Tough Luck

    1 1919 HD

    A comedy short featuring Sunshine Sammy Morrison.

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  • 1920
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    Red Hot Hottentotts

    Red Hot Hottentotts

    1 1920 HD

    Rivalry over a girl in this country moves to the heart of Africa, where the principals get into difficulties with man-eating cannibals.

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  • 1920
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    Why Go Home?

    Why Go Home?

    1 1920 HD

    'Snub' Pollard and Mildred Davis star in this 1920 comedy short.

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  • 1920
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    Getting His Goat

    Getting His Goat

    1 1920 HD

    Snub's many humorous experiences in attempting to transport his goat home. Comedy short directed by Charley Chase.

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  • 1919
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    Daddy Number Two

    Daddy Number Two

    1 1919 HD

    Marie attempts to select a new husband for her mother and a father for herself.

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  • 1974
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    Good Times

    Good Times

    7.9 1974 HD

    Good Times is an American sitcom that originally aired from February 8, 1974, until August 1, 1979, on the CBS television network. It was created by...

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