William Blaisdell Movies

While there isn't a clear synopsis of this short it it known that it was a slapstick "Christie Comedy," a popular series of shorts from that era...

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

The comedy occurs on shipboard where Jimmie is the object of attention for a pair of pickpockets who plan to use him to smuggle their ill-gotten off...

Golf with Monty Banks and pals.

In the story, Dr. Huff is beating up process servers. While he doesn't mind that his wife is divorcing him, he feels he's too busy to go to court....

At a magic show put on by Blondini the magician, a member of the audience is invited up to participate. He gets into all sorts of shenanigans,...

A fortuneteller informs Monte that he will marry the first girl he meets. After several false starts, he meets what he is sure is "the" girl. She...

A gorgeous showgirl is hired as a lingerie model at a fashion show......

Unable to pay his hotel bill Bobby has to become a bellboy to cover the cost. Among the many complications that ensue he finds himself handing from...

Monty is trying to collect rent from a couple of tough deadbeats who have made a sport of beating rent collectors.

Monty appears as a chap whose prospective father-in-law, to find out the stuff of which he is made, sets him out to peddle an encyclopedia which no...

A 1925 comedy featuring Walter Hiers and Jack Duffy. A theater company does a unique presentation of the Shakespeare classic after consuming gasoline...

A hunting comedy full of cartoonish gags.

Sailor-suited Billy Dooley must get a dress uniform from the captain's daughter, Vera Steadman. Miss Steadman is, of course, a student as a girl's...

Monty is chronically late. He comes to work late and loses his job, and then manages to miss his own wedding...

A sailor home from the sea sets off on a road trip to pick up his girlfriend from work. Unfortunately, he's a better sailor than he is a driver....

A Monty Banks comedy short.