Harold Lloyd takes twenty-five minutes of screen time to make a one-minute telephone call in this engaging short comedy.
It takes place at the Ocean Park Amusement Pier in Santa Monica, which certainly helps fill several minutes. Amusement parks had long been and would continue to be bright locations for comedy. Mostly, though, Lloyd takes advantage of the fact that he looks like a normal young man in love with a normal young girl -- Mildred Davis in this case -- with whom he has quarreled. He had played a grotesque, Keystone-style comic in his earlier shorts for Roach, but this new costume allowed him a greater range of stories, and an ability to appeal to middle-class audiences.
It takes place at the Ocean Park Amusement Pier in Santa Monica, which certainly helps fill several minutes. Amusement parks had long been and would continue to be bright locations for comedy. Mostly, though, Lloyd takes advantage of the fact that he looks like a normal young man in love with a normal young girl -- Mildred Davis in this case -- with whom he has quarreled. He had played a grotesque, Keystone-style comic in his earlier shorts for Roach, but this new costume allowed him a greater range of stories, and an ability to appeal to middle-class audiences.