Talk:Snub Pollard

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Discrepancy in article

I just happened to notice that the article says "Often mistaken as the brother of Australian actress Daphne Pollard, in fact the two were not related despite their shared surname. ", however two of the sites that this article references (Golden Silents and IMDB) say that they /are/ related and the other one doesn't mention it. Is there a way whoever made this can cite where they got the information that they are not related? Some sites that agree with the author, for example, can be found at The Virtual Dime Museum or at Silent Era . I'm going to go ahead and use those citations on the main page. Rocknerd1982 (talk) 18:01, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

The Robert Youngson film DAYS OF THRILLS AND LAUGHTER(1961) devotes considerable space to an untitled Pollard comedy(presumably for Hal Roach) where he is the president of the banana Republic of San Demente("Where mothers frighten their children by telling them they'll grow up to be President someday").

The short has Snub repeatedly dodging assassination attempts, and the imaginative ways his enemies plant explosives in his path. At the end,Snub throws a large bomb skyward; bringing down an aviator and his biplane. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.23.5.30 (talk) 20:48, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

THE WALKOUT(1923)/Hal Roach Studios/Snub Pollard,others/Snub works for a company that manufactures liquor flasks(during Prohibition). Agitators call a strike. Snub needs the money, so he thinks up imaginative ways to sneak past the picket line. When he finally does, his bosses are unappreciative of his ingenuity.So he joins t he strikers. The strikers all board at the same rooming house,and Snub is repeatedly egged on to resort to violence to settle t he strike.This results in the tried-and-true gag of trying to outrun a leaking keg of gunpowder. Snub finally settles the strike by telling the bosses he'll urge his fellow workers to "vote wet",effectively making their product obsolete.

Best scene is at a benefit dance for the strikers.Chloroform is accidentally poured into the ventilation system, causing the dancers to go into peculiar suspended animation movements. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.23.5.10 (talk) 15:48, 1 July 2025 (UTC)