An American, separated from his troop, protects a helpless Russian girl from marauding Bolsheviks.An American, separated from his troop, protects a helpless Russian girl from marauding Bolsheviks.An American, separated from his troop, protects a helpless Russian girl from marauding Bolsheviks.
'Snub' Pollard
- Count Pop-up-skyvitch - the Bolshevik Officer
- (as Harry Pollard)
Sammy Brooks
- Short Soldier
- (uncredited)
Lige Conley
- Commanding office
- (uncredited)
Phyllis Daniels
- Kidnapped Woman
- (uncredited)
Wally Howe
- Soldier
- (uncredited)
Bud Jamison
- Renegade
- (uncredited)
Dee Lampton
- Renegeade
- (uncredited)
Marie Mosquini
- Kidnapped Girl
- (uncredited)
Fred C. Newmeyer
- Private Brown
- (uncredited)
James Parrott
- Renegade
- (uncredited)
Noah Young
- Burly Soldier
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe U.S. Army had thousands of troops in Russia at the time of this film for several reasons - as part of an Allied force to fight against the Reds in the civil war, to protect military supplies headed for the eastern front, to help operate the Tran-Siberian Railway and to help evacuate the Czechoslovakian Army and transfer them to the Western Front. President Wilson began sending troops there in 1918, but they were all withdrawn by 1920.
- Quotes
Title Card: In Siberia - - Never colder than two miles below zero.
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A most unorthodox way
The American intervention in the newly formed Soviet Union is a topic little discussed today. I'll bet that 99 people today out of 100 don't even know that in the waning hours of World War I Woodrow Wilson ordered a limited intervention there. A bunch of powers chiefly the USA, the UK and Japan intervened in the Russian Revolution hoping to counteract what Winston Churchill called the 'tubercular bacillus'of Bolshevism. Of course it didn't work, but in 1919 we had troops there and it provided the setting for this short Harold Lloyd comedy Sammy In Siberia.
Lloyd is his usual shy everyman self who happens to be around when the Bolsheviks come calling on a farm house and luckily Bebe Daniels was not violated by them.
In rescue situations you take what you can get and things don't look promising when she finds Lloyd up a tree chased by her Siberian husky dog. Still Lloyd comes through in a most unorthodox way.
As for the title American soldiers in that era were called doughboys. But also they were called Sammys in deference to Uncle Sam.
Fans of Harold Lloyd will like this.
Lloyd is his usual shy everyman self who happens to be around when the Bolsheviks come calling on a farm house and luckily Bebe Daniels was not violated by them.
In rescue situations you take what you can get and things don't look promising when she finds Lloyd up a tree chased by her Siberian husky dog. Still Lloyd comes through in a most unorthodox way.
As for the title American soldiers in that era were called doughboys. But also they were called Sammys in deference to Uncle Sam.
Fans of Harold Lloyd will like this.
- bkoganbing
- Jun 6, 2015
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- Runtime10 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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