Movie: The Big Idea

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Harry 'Snub' Pollard
Harry 'Snub' Pollard

Inventor Ignatius Pollard

Blanche Mehaffey
Blanche Mehaffey

The Girl

Glenn Tryon
Glenn Tryon

Allawishus - the Mayor's son

George Rowe
George Rowe

Patent Lawyer

Billy Engle
Billy Engle

The Mayor

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    Inventor Ignatius Pollard develops a new "Pavement Polisher" to clean the streets, but a demonstration of the device does not go as planned.

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    1924-01-12

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