With a mother-in-law hanging suffragette banners all over the place, a man needs a drink. However, the mother-in-law objects to that too, so she has the wife hypnotize him into thinking the drink has been poisoned. Soon, he convinces everyone of the same, and they're all trying to burn off the fiendish liquor.
This movie is directed in chapter-heading style, in which the titles tell you what you are about to see. That was already going out of fashion. While it can work, the way people in this film react to being poisoned is identical; the only amusement is when the person who hypnotized the husband thinks she, too, has been poisoned. Movies like this would not survive the far zanier and better edited slapstick comedies that Keystone would been producing that very year.
This movie is directed in chapter-heading style, in which the titles tell you what you are about to see. That was already going out of fashion. While it can work, the way people in this film react to being poisoned is identical; the only amusement is when the person who hypnotized the husband thinks she, too, has been poisoned. Movies like this would not survive the far zanier and better edited slapstick comedies that Keystone would been producing that very year.
