In this film, Snub leaves his extremely tiny town to go live with his aunt, who he doesn't even know. He arrives at her house when she's throwing a party and she doesn't want to invite him inside...until she learns he owns an oil well. Then she encourages him to meet and become smitten with her daughter. However, Snub isn't that interested in this vamp and instead is interested in the maid. But due to their persistence, Snub finally agrees to marry the cousin--at which point the maid hatches a plan to expose the ruse and a silent comedy chase ensues.
This isn't a great comedy by any stretch of the imagination, but it does have a decent number of laughs as well as a few that fall very flat (such as those involving the duck). While far from Pollard's best (IT'S A GIFT), it still is watchable and cute. And, unfortunately, it's made worse by the ill-fitting music that was just slapped onto this short in the "Old Time Comedy Classics: Volume 9" DVD. Like almost all their films, the appropriateness of the music seemed irrelevant to those who assembled this collection.
This isn't a great comedy by any stretch of the imagination, but it does have a decent number of laughs as well as a few that fall very flat (such as those involving the duck). While far from Pollard's best (IT'S A GIFT), it still is watchable and cute. And, unfortunately, it's made worse by the ill-fitting music that was just slapped onto this short in the "Old Time Comedy Classics: Volume 9" DVD. Like almost all their films, the appropriateness of the music seemed irrelevant to those who assembled this collection.
