Sidney Smith Movies

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...

There is no love lost between the Red Dog Garage and the Black Cat Garage, two auto repair shops on opposite sides of the street. A big cross-country...

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.

Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the...

Percy & Ferdie at the nursery minding their babies with the mentality of Safety Last.

Little Jerry elopes with a young girl whose parents have just divorced. The mother thinks the father (denied custody) has kidnapped her and, as it...

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

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

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

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...

Two rival suitors plot to win the girl using fair means or foul.

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...

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

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 young man joins the army to impress his girlfriend. He soon finds out that his sergeant is actually an enemy spy, but before he can take any...

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...

A 1926 short film

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