Gilbert Pratt

Gilbert Pratt
Total Credits at Criticker: 2 (Actor), 30 (Director), 6 (Writer)
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Are Crooks Dishonest?
Con artists Harold and Snub attempt to outwit phony psychic Miss Goulash and her "professor" father. (imdb)
Mud and Sand
Mud and Sand (1922) - Short Film
Rhubarb Vaselino lives in a small village, when he and his friend, Sapo, enter a bullfighting contest, Sapo dies, but Rhubarb kills three bulls and becomes a local hero earning money. Two years later, he is living in Madrid as a national hero, when he becomes involved with Filet de Sol, and his lover finds out, he must fight the most deadliest in Spain, in the last bull fight of the season. (imdb)
Move On
Move On (1917) - Short Film
Our hero is a police officer who gets involved in a crap game, flirting with a nurse and other amusements. (imdb)
The City Slicker
Our hero gets a job at a hotel in the country and proceeds to introduce some changes, installing gadgets and time-saving devices. (imdb)
The Non-Stop Kid
Bebe is surrounded by suitors, but her father wants her to marry Professor M. T. Noodle. Harold makes his move by impersonating the professor. (imdb)
Going! Going! Gone!
Harold and Snub wind up at Bebe's place of business and start making a mess.... but Bebe still wins. (imdb)
The Egg
The Egg (1922) - Short Film
Laurel was cast as Humpty Dumpty in this film because he did pathetic things like untidying an office. Clearly, he is displaying genius at this early stage in his career, and just needed Hardy as his Nemesis, and sound to immortalize his screen persona. (imdb)
The Heavy Parade
Ton of Fun in a wild World War 1 slapstick comedy! (imdb)
Old Tin Sides
This is translated from a 'Cine-club' catalog Ufoleis (France) 1973-1974. The Three Fatty (A ton of fun) are salesmen in a grocery. Everyone will finish drinking the cider in the flooded cellar. (imdb)
Campus Romeos
A Ton of Fun slapstick comedy short directed by Gilbert Pratt. (imdb)
A Harem Knight
A pretty harem girl is rescued by a U. S. Navy officer. Whilst fleeing from the guards the girl takes refuge in the rooms of the notorious Rodney St. Clair, an erring Knight, who is proud of his long list of feminine conquests. But the Navy officer again comes to her rescue, and Sir Rodney is left to marry the harem's fattest woman after she puts a love potion in his drink. (imdb)
The Hasty Marriage
It's in three distinct segments. The first and probably best involves Charley, his girlfriend, and her father foolish her mother and the suitor she prefers into getting Charley into the house for dinner. In the later two segments, in which Charley must get married within minutes to get a job, and then tries to go on a picnic with his new family, are both also packed with laughs and timed with an almost musical brilliance. (imdb)
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Hear 'Em Rave is a 1918 short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd.
Are Parents Pickles?
James Parrott joins every lodge in town to get in good with people as he tries to sell his fire extinguishers.
Seal Skins
Seal Skins (1932) - Short Film
In their first comedy two-reeler of 1932, vivacious Thelma Todd and fluttery ZaSu Pitts learn that the royal seal of a foreign country has been stolen and promptly set out to catch it -- a sea lion.
Going Ga-ga
Going Ga-ga (1929) - Short Film
Anita and Marion realize that an abandoned baby they sneaked into an orphanage was kidnapped from a millionaire. For the reward, they proceed to break into the institution at night, dressed as men to beat curfew, to get the kid out again. (imdb)
Smith\
Here it's Andy Clyde in a long beard as Raymond McKee's rich uncle Dan. He quickly becomes entangled with Carmelita Geraghty, the vamp next door, and her conniving brother Bud Jamison. (imdb)
How High Is Up?
"Ton of Fun" comedy short.
High & Dry
High & Dry (1921) - Short Film
Jimmie Adams and Sid Smith comedy produced by Jack White and distributed by Educational.
Court Plaster
Process server Neal Burns raids a hospital to bring a reluctant doctor to trial.
Whispering Lions
At the Second Annual Athletic Meet, "The Fat Men's Race" is open to anybody ~ under a ton and a half... The entries are 'Hippo' (Loback) and 'Rhino' (Parrott) who get on the scales to be weighed. Rhino is assisted by extra padding and a third leg supplied by Wallace Howe on the scales in an attempt to boost his weight. The judge spots his attempts to cheat and orders Rhino to carry extra weight in order to qualify for the race so he is stuffed with filled sacks.
Fight Night
Fight Night (1926) - Short Film
While somewhat happily married, Walter Moore's eyes do stray from time to time, especially when Tessie McNab is within his eye-sight range. But while trying to just be helpful to a damsel-in-distress, Walter's jealous wife suspects there may be some hanky-panky involved.
Pinched
Pinched (1917) - Short Film
Pinched is a 1917 American short comedy film starring Harold Lloyd.
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When the story begins, Harold is told by his girlfriend's mother that he cannot marry Bebe (Bebe Daniels) because he's not rich and successful. So, he follows her on a date with Snub (Snub Pollard) and all sorts of chaos ensues.
Boys Will Be Girls
Matronly great aunt Emily went off to Africa and left behind her wanna be snobbish family. Ten years later, upon her death, the greedy family members awaits the reading of the will. Ready to celebrate their fortunes the family gathers the evening before with a big party. A great assortment of characters, comic ones, are all expecting to get their share of the inheritance.
The Big Idea
The Big Idea (1917) - Short Film
A clerk in a failing antiques store gets a big idea on how to move the merchandise so that he can save the store and possibly win the girl.
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That's Him (1918) - Short Film
Our newlywed hero is about to embark on his honeymoon when he realizes that he has lost the train tickets. In a mad scramble to find them, his bride is led to believe that she has been deserted.
Damsels and Dandies
Joe Rock and Earl Montgomery are a couple of delapidated swells who want to get inside Max Asher's school for dancing ladies, where they are practicing the Dance of the Seven Veils.
Grandpa\
Jean gets herself expelled from school so she can travel with her grandfather. Grandfather decides he'd rather have a new grandson, so he puts an ad in the paper. Jean decides to apply for the role and confusion ensues.
Elmer and Elsie
A milquetoast trucker is bullied by his domineering wife.