It's love among the elite in this Keystone from 1915, in which normal-looking people in well-fitting clothes go through the same sort of hi-jinks that the hoi polloi do. It's a couple of minutes before the first weird mustache appears and it took me twice that to recognize that bright eyed, lanky girl with the snub nose as Louise Fazenda.
It's pieces like this that make you realize that the players at Keystone were not just people who could fall on their behinds and bounce up again as if they were made of springs and steel. They were actors, sometimes fine actors, who could also fall on their behinds and bounce up again as if they were made of springs and steel.
It's a straight competition for the hand of Louise, gradually escalating into a duel and rescuing a dog from alligators and the actors perform their roles very well. Mack Sennett was always trying something new and this was an early attempt to break away from the bizarre clowns that were already becoming old hat. It was an experiment he would not repeat soon.
It's pieces like this that make you realize that the players at Keystone were not just people who could fall on their behinds and bounce up again as if they were made of springs and steel. They were actors, sometimes fine actors, who could also fall on their behinds and bounce up again as if they were made of springs and steel.
It's a straight competition for the hand of Louise, gradually escalating into a duel and rescuing a dog from alligators and the actors perform their roles very well. Mack Sennett was always trying something new and this was an early attempt to break away from the bizarre clowns that were already becoming old hat. It was an experiment he would not repeat soon.