Unfortunately, the film is incomplete. Much of the first reel, with Stan Laurel as a prizefighter, has been lost.
What remains is one of film's most inventive pie fights. As the story goes, the writers, director and cast were discussing how to end the short when somebody suggested throwing a few pies.
Laurel jumped on this idea. "If we're going to throw pies, let's throw *lots* of pies!" So it began....
The gags are highly creative. A dentist's patient gets hit while he's helpless with his mouth open. An attractive flapper takes a pie on her vulnerable behind while climbing into a car. When she turns to protest, she gets another in the face. The traditional dowager catches a pie as she peers through her lorgnette at the melee. The final gag has stately Anita Garvin doing a pratfall onto a dropped pie. Uncertain what she's fallen into, she darts around the corner, pausing only to shake one leg along the way.
The best place to find the pie fight is on Robert Youngson's "The Golden Age of Comedy."
What remains is one of film's most inventive pie fights. As the story goes, the writers, director and cast were discussing how to end the short when somebody suggested throwing a few pies.
Laurel jumped on this idea. "If we're going to throw pies, let's throw *lots* of pies!" So it began....
The gags are highly creative. A dentist's patient gets hit while he's helpless with his mouth open. An attractive flapper takes a pie on her vulnerable behind while climbing into a car. When she turns to protest, she gets another in the face. The traditional dowager catches a pie as she peers through her lorgnette at the melee. The final gag has stately Anita Garvin doing a pratfall onto a dropped pie. Uncertain what she's fallen into, she darts around the corner, pausing only to shake one leg along the way.
The best place to find the pie fight is on Robert Youngson's "The Golden Age of Comedy."