Romantic complications ensue at a boarding house when a maid inherits a fortune.Romantic complications ensue at a boarding house when a maid inherits a fortune.Romantic complications ensue at a boarding house when a maid inherits a fortune.
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Sigmund Sennett
There's a bit of Freudian tension in the gags that start this Keystone movie and a bit of Jungian symbolism. Mack Swain chops logs, some of which fly into the kitchen. Polly Moran bites off part of a plate, so enamored of him is she. Later, she falls over on a chair, her legs spread and he enters to dump the split kindling into her lap. I may be over-analyzing, but just because Sennett's staff was making movie for the working class is no reason to assume they weren't up on the still exotic theories coming in from Vienna.
Other than that, this is a fairly typical Keystone triangle comedy with Mack and city slicker Edgar Kennedy -- he still has some hair at this point -- disputing for the hand of Polly. When she inherits money from her uncle, Mack turns her down because of his manly pride. Not so the citified Kennedy. The usual ruckus ensues.
The story and costuming makes me think that this might have been planned as a property for Roscoe Arbuckle before he fled to New York to escape the country bumpkin roles that Sennett liked to cast him in. The gags are more elaborate than Roscoe would have performed. Still, the result is a good Keystone with several nicely turned gags.
Other than that, this is a fairly typical Keystone triangle comedy with Mack and city slicker Edgar Kennedy -- he still has some hair at this point -- disputing for the hand of Polly. When she inherits money from her uncle, Mack turns her down because of his manly pride. Not so the citified Kennedy. The usual ruckus ensues.
The story and costuming makes me think that this might have been planned as a property for Roscoe Arbuckle before he fled to New York to escape the country bumpkin roles that Sennett liked to cast him in. The gags are more elaborate than Roscoe would have performed. Still, the result is a good Keystone with several nicely turned gags.
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- Runtime22 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
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