Series: Snub Pollard Director: Charles Parrott Producer: Hal Roach Titles: H.M. Walker Photography: Robert Doran Editor: Thomas J. Crizer Stars: Snub Pollard, Wallace Howe, James Finlayson, Marie Mosquini Company: Pathé Exchange Released: 27 May 1923 Length: 2 reels Production No.: B-12 Filming dates: October 7-21, 1922; retakes November 6,7 & 28, 1922 Rating: -/10

Sold At Auction!

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A woman dressed in all black drops off a basket on the doorstep of a building. Inside the basket is the ugliest baby you could imagine. Twenty-five years later, a grown man (Snub Pollard) emerges from it fully clothed. Snub sees a young boy trying to cross the busy road and helps him across. The boy is delivered safely to the other side, but Snub gets hit by a car as he returns and then gets pushed along the street by it. Soon after, he gets sandwiched between two cars and ends up head-first through one of their windscreens. Snub gets a smack in the mouth from the angry motorist and then is launched through the air by an oncoming vehicle and into an auction house. The auctioneer is delighted as it helps with the sale of his first aid cabinet to a crowd of excited shoppers. REVIEW INCOMPLETE.

Trivia • Copyrighted May 12, 1923. • Snub refers to the boy he helps across the street as 'Livingston'. • At the auction, a big sign hangs on the wall that says "Strictly Cash". • The car that hits Snub Pollard through the air and into the auction house strikes him in a real street, and he lands on the Hal Roach Back Lot.

	Snub Pollard Auctioneer's helper
	Wallace Howe The man who sold
	James Finlayson The man who was sold
	Marie Mosquini The sold man's wife
	Jack Ackroyd Whiskers
	William Gillespie Aviator with false teeth
	Charles Stevenson Auctioneer
	Charley Chase Customer
	Noah Young Product demonstrator

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