Egged On

You can always expect Charley Bowers's comedies to feature some inventive and often spectacular visual effects, and this is not an exception. It's good comedy overall, and there is one wonderful sequence that almost upstages the rest of the movie.

Most of the first part of the movie is the more conventional kind of slapstick, but most of it works well enough, and it sets up the sequences featuring Charley's efforts to build and demonstrate his latest invention. The gadget and, especially, some of the camera tricks, are worth the wait.

The highlight is the "hatching" gag, and it is a real delight - elaborately planned and filmed, detailed, amusing, and even cute. What makes it even better is that it is set up so that it runs just counter to your expectations for the sequence. Bowers also gets a lot of mileage out of the scene, and almost any movie would be worth seeing for that one sequence alone.

It's very fortunate that some of Bowers' features have finally become available, and this is one that is certainly well worth seeing.