Park Your Car
About Park Your Car
Snub Pollard and his heavyset neighbor, tired of watching other people's cars, buy a secondhand automobile together so they can drive with their wives. On the first outing the car sheds parts until little is left but the number plate. Snub drives through walls, drags a man in a bathtub into the street, and wrecks the flivver. He and his wife swear off cars.
Cast & crew
More about Park Your Car
Alfred J. Goulding directed and Hal Roach produced. Pathé Exchange released the one-reeler on December 19, 1920. The company number is H-51. The shoot ran October 11–27, 1920, and the copyright date is February 12, 1921. Snub Pollard plays the husband, Marie Mosquini his wife, Hughie Mack the fat neighbor, and Ernest Morrison (Sunshine Sammy) a boy.
Themes
Making
Roach's lot already specialized in automobile smash-ups. Goulding gives Pollard a shared car so the wreck can belong to two households at once.
Preservation
A print is held by the EYE Filmmuseum.
Notes
- Wid's Daily ran the plot on December 12, 1920, a week before the Pathé release.
- Pollard plays the husband without the mustache he usually wore.
- Earl Mohan is a gardener, Vera White an angry resident, Sammy Brooks a courier, and Ernest Morrison Sr. a man in a top hat, identifications made by Jesse Brisson.
- The EYE Filmmuseum holds a print; a copy from that archive circulates with the Rolin Film credit on it.
Scenes
- Snub and the neighbor watch cars from the fence and decide to buy one.
- Parts fall off until the license number is about all that remains.
- The car carries a man, bathtub and all, into the street, then is wrecked.
Also available
- EYE Filmmuseum
