Always on the lookout for something new, Mack Sennett said let there be a family series with a large dog and lo! There was the Smith Family starring Raymond McKee as the father, Ruth Hiatt as the mother, three year old Mary Ann Jackson as the child and Omar the Dog as the dog. It was all very good casting and the presence of Carole Lombard in this, the fourteenth of the series, adds to the fun. Ever wonder where she got such good comedy chops? Working for Sennett.
The Smith family visits San Francisco and then takes an ocean trip where everyone gets mildly seasick and the eponymous pony shows up. In fact, all of the Smith Family movies are mild, at least by the rugged standards of Sennett's studio. Australian Alf Goulding directs a series of gags that never get much rougher than a shot of people leaning over the rail of a ship in this comedy of middle-class foibles.
The Smith family visits San Francisco and then takes an ocean trip where everyone gets mildly seasick and the eponymous pony shows up. In fact, all of the Smith Family movies are mild, at least by the rugged standards of Sennett's studio. Australian Alf Goulding directs a series of gags that never get much rougher than a shot of people leaning over the rail of a ship in this comedy of middle-class foibles.