Monty Banks Movies

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

Not one but two of Charlie Chaplin impersonators, Harry Mann and Monty Banks, a film directed by Charley Chase still under the name of Charles...

A musical comedy directed by Monty Banks. A cook recalls a night spent in a French estaminet in 1915.

Brilliantino the Bullfighter (originally titled Flood and Sand) is one of the first spoofs of Blood and Sand, Paramount’s smoldering matador...

Wee Georgie Wood and his gang have their sights set on a notorious villain.

Monty Banks becomes a sailor in the hunt for his girl.

When a meek secretary goes to work for her new boss, she becomes a sophisticated lady.

An American on his honeymoon in Paris, organises the kidnapping of his interfering mother-in-law.

British comedy. It was released in the United States the following year under the alternative title Trouble Ahead.

A girl with amnesia believes she is a bachelor's wife.

Major Joppolo and his men are assigned to restore order to the war-torn Italian town of Adano. He has to manage getting supplies into town without...

A husband wins £200 and buys a car.

The Boy, involved in a maritime disaster as a child, suffers from hydrophobia. He invents a life preserver that automatically inflates when it hits...

When their ship arrives in an Arabian port, the sailors are given shore leave among them Bill Biggles, who has previously had little success with...

Monty is the driver of a delivery wagon for a cleaning and dyeing establishment, romps with a Ford and gets himself into many ridiculous scrapes.

A French perfume salesman is mistaken for a bootlegger. Partially missing two-reeler with 11 minutes surviving.

Despite being on his uppers, George is still prepared to pawn his beloved banjo in order to help his girlfriend save her niece from the orphanage....

NEAT AND TIDY (1930) hilarious British Pathe comedy short with wonderful music hall comics. Newlyweds are old by the time their house is built.

An agile waiter unmasks a cabaret conjurer as a thief.

Four men are out rabbit hunting and encounter a beautiful young lady, who promises to marry the first one who brings her a white rabbit.