Monty Banks Movies

An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century through the 1920s.

Laurel is a Scottish reporter suspected of being a spy by police detective James Finlayson. Although trailed by the latter, Stan, who is reporting on...

Monty Banks becomes a car salesman and is shifted to Africa to sell one to King Obogeegee.

Lovable buffoon Monty Banks tries to relax, but ultimately spends his day worrying about who is keeping company with his wife.

Monty and his wife are newlyweds dealing with things like making breakfast that’s edible and dealing with a persistent book salesman. Only reel...

A model inherits a great deal of money and pretends to be a movie star.

A woman prevents a popular stage performer getting arrested for drunk driving, though has to pretend to be a rich benefactor when she next meets him.

British comedy. It was released in the United States the following year under the alternative title Trouble Ahead.

Set in the oil-soaked country of “Chilitina”—shot on location in San Diego’s Balboa Park—Oils Well! follows the...

A rich American businessman in London makes believe he's lost all his money so that his daughter will marry a composer.

Monty Banks gets involved in tracking down a stolen fortune, his adventures culminating in a whirlwind, gag-filled climax at sea.

Love blossoms after a young man rescues a pretty girl who attempted to drown herself.

George Shuttleworth is convinced that he has the talent to win the Isle of Man TT races, despite what his neighbours back home in Wigan may think....

In India, a British soldier saves the jeweled eye of a sacred idol.

Cunard turns into The Queen of the Apaches, an outlaw who steals from the rich to gives to the poor, always leaving a purple mask behind as a...

A musical comedy directed by Monty Banks. A cook recalls a night spent in a French estaminet in 1915.

When a meek secretary goes to work for her new boss, she becomes a sophisticated lady.

A bank clerk takes the blame for a theft which he believes was committed by his ex-convict father.

The headwaiter does tricks with spaghetti that the greatest spaghetti handlers in the world never heard of. The sight makes your mouth water. Besides...

A comedy film directed by Monty Banks.