The only time Buster Keaton and Mack Sennett worked together professionally was on this short, although Sennett in his autobiography includes Keaton's name in a list of the stars he had helped. Except for a few Keaton moments, the film's humor seems quite uninspired. One review of this short says that Keaton worked for Paramount in the 1920's which is not true. His shorts were distributed by First National, Metro, Metro-Goldwyn and his features by Metro-Goldwyn and United Artists. Tiny Sandford also appears in "The Timid Young Man" and this same review claims that he was a Sennett villain, but he was not. He worked for Hal Roach primarily and appeared in many Laurel and Hardy films and also was in several Chaplin films.
Review of The Timid Young Man
