Leon Errol can't go out for a night of poker with the boys. His living-room chair is co-opted by his mother-in-law's dog; and she's thrown away his pipe tobacco to use the humidor to hold her knitting wool. Finally, wide Dorothy Christy lets Leon go to the corner store to get a six-cent cigar. On the way, he encounters his own double, whom he hires to play him while he enjoys a night out with the boys.
They don't even bother to do split-screen effects in this short; they simply shoot Leon acting in one register, then cut away to Leon acting in another. It's fairly effective, and a good reminder that comic acting is acting.
Look at the old comedy pros in the poker game with Leon. We shall not look on their like again.
They don't even bother to do split-screen effects in this short; they simply shoot Leon acting in one register, then cut away to Leon acting in another. It's fairly effective, and a good reminder that comic acting is acting.
Look at the old comedy pros in the poker game with Leon. We shall not look on their like again.
