Mack Swain is making a dress for Louise Fazenda. He discovers his dressmaker's dummy requires his adjustment, so he pulls out his hatchet for the job. Through the window shade, onlookers -- including her husband -- see him as killing a woman.
It's a one-reel film from Keystone, and the humor lies in the outsized reactions of the onlookers, including the man who pulls out his pistol and tries to catch him and the dummy which Swain has wrapped up in a shawl and dropped into the river. It's not the strongest of Keystones, but it contains all the usual bits of humor typical of the shorts.
Louise Fazenda usually played country hicks for Sennett and her comedy shorts. In the sound era, she played a wider variety of characters, but eventually eased off and ended her film career in 1939. She was married until her death to producer Hal Wallis, who came to be called "The Prisoner of Fazenda."
It's a one-reel film from Keystone, and the humor lies in the outsized reactions of the onlookers, including the man who pulls out his pistol and tries to catch him and the dummy which Swain has wrapped up in a shawl and dropped into the river. It's not the strongest of Keystones, but it contains all the usual bits of humor typical of the shorts.
Louise Fazenda usually played country hicks for Sennett and her comedy shorts. In the sound era, she played a wider variety of characters, but eventually eased off and ended her film career in 1939. She was married until her death to producer Hal Wallis, who came to be called "The Prisoner of Fazenda."
