Series: Snub Pollard Director: Charles Parrott Producer: Hal Roach Titles: Photography: Editor: Stars: Snub Pollard, Marie Mosquini Company: Pathé Exchange Released: 21 May 1922 Length: 1 reel Production No.: H-106 Filming dates: January 28 - February 1, 1922 Rating: 5/10

Do Me A Favor

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At night, a group of vagrants on a park bench are accosted by a musically-gifted policeman (Mark Jones), who uses his truncheon as a drumstick over their heads until the men all leave. Snub (Pollard) is lying on a nearby bench reading a copy of 'The Police Gazette' and laughing at its content when the cop tries to move him on, repeatedly hitting his shoes with his clun, but without any success. Snub later stands up to reveal the shoes are not his. A distressed lady (Marie Mosquini) runs up to him and seeks his assistance (hence the title of the film) and leads him away and into her apartment. When she opens her bedroom door, her unconscious husband falls out onto the floor. She tells Snub that her husband has drunk hair tonic and now refuses to go to bed. Snub helps the man back into bed but he keeps getting up. As daybreak arrives, the wife pleads with Snub to stay awhile until her husband sobers up. The husband takes a gun out and attempts to shoot an apple from the top of a lamp but misses. Snub puts a large pumpkin on his head and entices the husband to shoot that instead. After several shots, the husband has managed to shoot off all of Snub's clothes. The last shot shoots the pumpkin off Snub's head, which flies out of the window and hits the cop outside. The cop strolls into the house, whacks Snub with his truncheon and leaves. [see favourite bit] The husband decides to make breakfast - eggs. A fire soon begins and Snub takes the wife out of the house. The fire crew are called and there is a mad rush through the town carrying a hosepipe to extinguish the flames. Snub pulls the hose across some train tracks where a train runs over it, cutting it in half. And that's the end of that!

Favourite bit Mark Jones as the policeman storming into the house, hitting Snub Pollard in the gut and then leaving again. It's the way he walks in and does it which is comical.

Trivia • Copyrighted April 27, 1922. • A restored print of the film resides in the archives at the Library of Congress. • There are several shots where Marie Mosquini's chest is clearly on show. One such example: My opinion • You know that feeling when you have seen one Snub Pollard film then you've seen them all? Well......

	Snub Pollard The stroller
	Marie Mosquini The agitated lady
	William Gillespie Fireman
	Mark Jones The musical cop
	Eddie Baker The drunken husband
	Wallace Howe (maybe one of the firemen?)

INTERTITLES (click image to enlarge)

SHOT ON THE BACK LOT (click any image to enlarge)

SHOT ON LOCATION (click any image to enlarge)

Acknowledgements: Rob Stone (help with print) Chris Bungo (locations information) This page was last updated on: 16 December 2017