Marie Mosquini Movies

An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century through the 1920s.

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

A screenwriter falls in love with a Mexican woman while searching for a story line south of the border.

When a store clerk organizes a contest to climb the outside of a tall building, circumstances force him to make the perilous climb himself.

For 50 years radio dominated the airwaves and the American consciousness as the first “mass medium.” In Empire of the Air: The Men Who...

In 1910s Paris, a sewer worker disillusioned with Christianity feels his prayers have been answered when he chances upon a street waif and they fall...

'Save the Ship' is a plotless silent short film which has the 33 year old Stan Laurel acting in a run of the mill production to pay his bills and as...

Luke is a pickpocket, hiding out from the cops in a dive in the slum part of town. He later winds up in a boxing match which again brings the law on...

A short film starring Harold Lloyd.

Luke is an inept detective who follows the wrong man to a seaside hotel.

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...

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...

In pre-historic times (dream sequence), our hero, in a loin cloth, battles other cavemen over the opposite sex.

Luke operates a sanatarium, which he has naturally staffed with a bevy of attractive nurses.

After committing a murder, Kay assumes a new identity and boards a ship. But, Kay is unaware that Sam, a skirt chasing detective, is following her...

Snub plays a rich guy who wants to impress the ladies with his virility. So he pays a tough boxer to take a dive in a staged fight, though the fight...

A young adventurer trades places with a European prince and falls in love above his station.

This Hal Roach comedy short I found on the "American Slapstick" DVD collection of rare silent comedies starts bizarre and has an anything...

Boy trying to impress girl, gets chased by her father and the police right into an ongoing marathon.

Lloyd is a serious young middle-class guy on the make who wants to marry the boss’ daughter. The problem is getting in to see the boss so that...