Sidney Smith Movies

The one-reel movie I saw appears to be a version of TAMING THE WEST (1919), cut down for the Pathe show-at-home market. Percy (Edward Flanagan) and...

Billy Garrison, a successful young jockey, rides the favorite "Sis" in the Louisville Derby. He does not ride with his customary vigor and dash. He...

A bumbling bank custodian becomes an unlikely hero when he foils a robbery.

The boys, applying for free bread, find that the sign is used as a stall by a bootlegger who is dispensing hooch hidden in the loaves. After breaking...

Amateur aviator Harold McNutt's hopes of taking flight result in an escalating series of high jinks.

Maggie De Cray and her daughter, Maybelle, run a theatrical boarding house. Horatio Payne is a star boarder. Olga Petrino, a vaudeville queen,...

In 1923, The Gumps moved up to two-reel live-action comedies, with former Keystone Cop Joe Murphy as the chinless lead, pioneering...

A boat race rivalry erupts into comical danger.

A crooked lawyer sells his car.

An animator's dog gets the better of him

A farce of comic characters, full of dream-like impossible doings that compel laughter through being so impossible. One of the characters is in a...

The Hallroom boys play "Put and Take" until their top is discovered to have all its sides marked "Take All."

A high-society woman films a vanity film of her dancing with a group of women. The premiere takes an hilariously disastrous turn when a lion gets...

A farmer's daughter, Little Nell, is abducted and it's up to two of her faithful admirers to rescue her.

Dress shop owner Madame Maxine employs two chimps to serve in her establishment. It goes about as well as you would expect!

During World War I a vaudeville entertainer, Mickey, is helping to recruit officers for the army and finds himself in the service along with his...

A sailor home from the sea sets off on a road trip to pick up his girlfriend from work. Unfortunately, he's a better sailor than he is a driver....

“At Your Service” (aka James Manages a Restaurant), 1921, starring Sidney Smith, is a nice and inventive silent comedy. James and George...

The pair are elegant down-and-outs in a park where a mother and her baby are having a picnic. Their dog steals the picnic basket for them but when...

The on and off land escapades of a sailor as he prepares for a boxing match.