Marion Davies directed by Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle should have been comedy gold but this Dutch-themed picture trips over its own sabot and never recovers.
Individually, there are many gags that work and Davies is a charmer but leading man Owen Moore is a bore, Louise Fazenda and Karl Dane are underused and the plot is unfocused and uninteresting. Has its moments but no masterpiece.
I will say this, though: this picture is a never-ending source of great GIFs.
How does it end? Hover or tap below for a spoiler.
Everyone ends up with the person they love and it’s all happily ever after from there.
If it were a dessert it would be: That ice cream sandwich you left in the car last August.
Read my full-length review here and learn more about Arbuckle’s post-scandal directing career.
Availability: Released on DVD by Warner Archive with a really smashing score.
Movies Silently 
“That ice cream sandwich you left in the car last August.” Wow. That is quite the recommendation, isn’t it?
Well, good components that were completely ruined 😉
I got this film from the WB Archive Collection. Do you know if that company has released all the silents that it has? There have been a few films released after the initial group.
There are still a TON of films that have aired on TCM but have not yet been released on DVD. The most-wanted include The Wind, The Crowd, The Scarlet Letter and Greed.