cricket30 Review of Andy's Stump Speech

Andy's Stump Speech (1924)

A great example of early "wire work" . . .

[7/10 · 27 November 2013]

. . . which rivals much of what comes out of Hollywood and Hong Kong today. It is a true marvel when U.S. Presidential candidate Andy Gump (played by Joe Murphy, who actually finished ahead of the Democratic candidate in some precincts in the REAL 1924 vote for the White House!) pulls on a pair of pants that had been airing in a bush outside the second floor window of his hotel campaign headquarters. Unfortunately for Andy, his mischievous son Chester had knocked over an apiary hive, the residents of which all had made a bee-line for the candidate's trousers. After a few impromptu calisthenics in his private room, Andy rushes downstairs onto the stage for an auxiliary campaign event--a dance contest. Gyrating in a fashion humanly impossible (without the assistance of stinging jitterbugs and\or "wires"), Andy wins the trophy cup, of course. And this airborne wizardry is nothing to the main event: the "stump speech," which REALLY sends the Washington hopeful flying!