Jack Duffy had two skills that helped make him the lead in a nice series of short comedies in the 1920s: the usual ability to take one of the bone-breaking falls that slapstick called for and the ability to make himself up as an old coot, which gave him a nice character and made the pratfalls more impressive. In this one he manages to get himself tangled up coming down the pole at the fire station -- very amusing.
For the rest of it, he is competently assisted by highly reliable comics like Gale Henry and the Christie Studios machine, which seemed to specialize in getting from the set-up to the gag and thence to the next set-up as expeditiously as possible. The result is funny, if not great.
For the rest of it, he is competently assisted by highly reliable comics like Gale Henry and the Christie Studios machine, which seemed to specialize in getting from the set-up to the gag and thence to the next set-up as expeditiously as possible. The result is funny, if not great.
