M-G-M. Director Edward Sedgwick; Screenplay Clyde Bruckman, Richard Schayer; Camera Elgin Lessley
Buster Keaton
Marceline Day
Harold Goodwin
Sidney Bracy
Harry Gribbon
Good laugh picture with Buster Keaton. The same old stencil about a boob that does everything wrong and cashes in finally through sheer accident.
Keaton is a problem on love interest. In the present case his cow-like adoration of the heroine (Marceline Day) is used to build up sympathy as a counter-irritant to his abysmal stupidity.
In trying to land a job with M-G-M News, Keaton, as a tintype photographer suddenly turned cinematic, goes through a series of hoke adventures. There is the comedy. One of the smartest bits is when setting up his camera to shoot an admiral leaving a hotel - Keaton mistakes the gorgeously uniformed hotel doorman for the admiral.
Another clever bit is when, swimming in a public tank with women all about, Keaton loses his over-size bathing suit. The big punch is when he photographs a Chinese tong war from the center of the melee.
Day is appealing as the femme. Harold Goodwin has the only other part of consequence, as a newsreel cameraman also soft on the gal.
Silent. (B&W) Extract of a review from 1928. Running time: 68 MIN.
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