Country hick Fred Mace has grown tired of his wife's local social climbing. To get out of the marriage, he fakes his suicide and heads off to New York City to enjoy the peace and quiet.... and so does the new widow.
If the modern movie fan knows Mack Sennett, it is as the proprietor of Keystone, where slapstick reigned supreme. However, before he was lured away, Sennett spent several years at Biograph, learning how to write, direct, perform and produce movies from the man he called "The Master", D.W. Griffith. By 1910, he was directing and producing comedies for the company.
Usually they were situational comedies, about young men who loved a girl in vain.... at least until the end. Usually, the people looked and acted pretty much as they did in Griffith's pictures, with only minor mayhem. Occasionally, though, he got to turn out something that was darker and wilder, like this one.
If the modern movie fan knows Mack Sennett, it is as the proprietor of Keystone, where slapstick reigned supreme. However, before he was lured away, Sennett spent several years at Biograph, learning how to write, direct, perform and produce movies from the man he called "The Master", D.W. Griffith. By 1910, he was directing and producing comedies for the company.
Usually they were situational comedies, about young men who loved a girl in vain.... at least until the end. Usually, the people looked and acted pretty much as they did in Griffith's pictures, with only minor mayhem. Occasionally, though, he got to turn out something that was darker and wilder, like this one.