Monty Banks Movies

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

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

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

Monty Milde, would-be newspaper reporter, stumbles into a high-profile kidnapping mystery.

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.

Virginia Craig will become super-wealthy and gain sole control of her factory, unless insubordinate schemers can trick her into marrying one of their...

Brilliantino the Bullfighter (originally titled Flood and Sand) is one of the first spoofs of Blood and Sand, Paramount’s smoldering matador...

Augustus Billings has a domineering mother-in-law, and to get away from both her and his wife, he takes a trip, claiming that he is going off to...

Calvin Jones is a cowboy who wants to invest in a Broadway play. Joe Lehman's secretary Ruth learns that her boss is attempting to swindle Jones and...

A man sponges off an old comrade from the First World War who believes he has saved his life during the war, although this ultimately proves not to...

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

The owner of a professional help agency poses as a poet at a wealthy patron's ball and prevents a necklace from being stolen by thieves.

As he pursues Joan Blossom, ruined gambler Jeff Cheddar is mistaken for two-faced financier Jay Cheddar, eventually leading to Joan's stockbroker...

A naive young man joins the Army in order to become a pilot.

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

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

Misadventures of a traveling company of actors performing for one night in a small town. When the troupe's leading lady deserts the show for a better...

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

A lawyer spends the weekend with a married actress at the same hotel as his wife and her lover. This British silent film exists in an abridged 2-reel...