Uncompicated Christie slapstick comedy
Jimmie is in the Navy. Winnie is a typist. He hires a car to take her driving but doesn't know how to drive. As with many CFC comedies, the best thing is Norman McLeod's ever-delightful matchstick-men on the titlecards.
There is one point of historical interest in that, while escaping from the traffic cops, Jimmie substitutes himself for a flagpole-sitter. Flagpole-sitting (quite literally sitting for hours on end on the top of a flagpole) was a bizarre fad of the mid-twenties initially associated (1924) with sailor/stuntman Alvin "Shipwreck" Kelly.
There is one point of historical interest in that, while escaping from the traffic cops, Jimmie substitutes himself for a flagpole-sitter. Flagpole-sitting (quite literally sitting for hours on end on the top of a flagpole) was a bizarre fad of the mid-twenties initially associated (1924) with sailor/stuntman Alvin "Shipwreck" Kelly.
- kekseksa
- Apr 17, 2018