Mack Sennett's staff came up with this satire of the Florida land boom of the 1920s with a series of gags based on actual cases -- people did buy and sell lots that turned out to be underwater, as they "flipped" their properties without ever knowing they were being swindled. The whole thing collapsed and a hurricane went through downtown Miami. Such a thing could never happen again -- at least until 2008, when I failed to argue my sister out of a sure-fire deal in Tampa. Ay, wheel.
The movie starts in an erratic manner with Billy Bevan, playing a John Phillip Sousa knockoff, getting married for his mustache and ends in a typical Sennett fashion with a bungalow being chased by a firetruck. It's a typically good Sennett comedy from the era.
Billy was one of the large number of Australian clowns who had substantial roles in silent movies and subsided into bits in sound movies, usually playing a Cockney cabbie. In the 1920s he was a lead utility lead for Sennett in a lot of pictures.
The movie starts in an erratic manner with Billy Bevan, playing a John Phillip Sousa knockoff, getting married for his mustache and ends in a typical Sennett fashion with a bungalow being chased by a firetruck. It's a typically good Sennett comedy from the era.
Billy was one of the large number of Australian clowns who had substantial roles in silent movies and subsided into bits in sound movies, usually playing a Cockney cabbie. In the 1920s he was a lead utility lead for Sennett in a lot of pictures.