It's fairly common for silent two-reel comedies to consist of two one-reel comedies stuck together, but here's one which is a bit different; it's two split-reel comedies stuck together. In the first one, Paul Parrott -- better known as Charley Chase's kid brother and the director under his reel name of James Parrott as a director and screenwriter -- who's running a shoe-shine stand. There are a couple of gag sequences, then he winds up as the assistant of the train station, and there are escaped convicts trying to break into a safe.
The gags are strong, and there are a lot of Hal Roach regulars who show up. There's no doubt that Parrott was a capable silent comic, but there were plenty of those, and after a couple of years, he went behind the camera -- and brother Charley emerged.
The gags are strong, and there are a lot of Hal Roach regulars who show up. There's no doubt that Parrott was a capable silent comic, but there were plenty of those, and after a couple of years, he went behind the camera -- and brother Charley emerged.