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Charles King (a name pretty much forgotten today) stars in this crazy comedy. However, judging by this film you wonder why he is a forgotten comic--as the film is clever and will make you laugh.

When the film begins, King is on his way to work but has serious car trouble. In fact, he is ejected by the vehicle and it goes racing about without him. Eventually, after a lot of damage and mayhem, King arrives at work...very late. In fact, he's been late a lot lately, so the boss fires him. Thinking fast, King concocts an insane story about his having saved the boss' daughter from a group of marauding Indians...in the city! It's all very silly and funny. But the boss learns that King is lying but instead of firing him, decides to punish him another way--to send him out to repossess a diamond ring that a nasty brute refuses to pay for...and who just beat up one of the employees trying to collect. Can out hero manage to save the day...and his skin?

The best thing the film has going for it is energy. The film has a few slower gags here and there but because they come so quickly and with so much flair, you never have a chance to catch your breath. Very funny and clever.

This is one of a million comedy shorts of the 20s showcasing so-so pratfalls in the middle of Los Angeles, then a very pretty city. The comedy -- involving a collection agency employee who makes up wild excuses to explain his tardiness -- is better when the jokes are on the road, and involve how cars can be smacked into each other, flipped around, and seem to have mischievous minds of their own. The lead comic has no particular personality, though it is a little unusual that our nebbishy hero is employed as a repo man.

Nothing special. It is amazing, though, we can still talk about it 85 years after it was made.