There seem to be two sets of film makers at work on this short: one is Harry Langdon and Harry Edwards, one of his lead collaborators from his Mack Sennett days. The two of them manage a few real Harry Langdon moments, when the pixilated Harry -- actually, here he seems permanently soused -- is befuddled by the modern world, in the form of a telephone hooked up to the electricity line and the toaster to the telephone jack. If you are a fan of Harry Langdon's style of comedy -- and I am -- then you will enjoy this movie for those moments.
And therefore you will hate it for its loud, cheap, painful Jules White setting of random violence and Elsie Ames -- a talented contortionist who worked well with Buster Keaton in a couple of his Columbia shorts, because she could take a fall very well, but here she's just annoying.
So should you see this? If you're a Harry Langdon fanatic, yes, for those few brief moments. But otherwise, no.
And therefore you will hate it for its loud, cheap, painful Jules White setting of random violence and Elsie Ames -- a talented contortionist who worked well with Buster Keaton in a couple of his Columbia shorts, because she could take a fall very well, but here she's just annoying.
So should you see this? If you're a Harry Langdon fanatic, yes, for those few brief moments. But otherwise, no.