Wandering Willies

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Billy Bevan, Andy Clyde, and Ruth Hiatt in Wandering Willies (1926)

Two aimless wanderers are hungry and broke. They think of a way to trick a restaurant into giving them a free meal, but their scheme results in them being pursued by both the restaurant owne... Read allTwo aimless wanderers are hungry and broke. They think of a way to trick a restaurant into giving them a free meal, but their scheme results in them being pursued by both the restaurant owner and the police. Soon, however, they discover that the restaurant owner has a secret of h... Read allTwo aimless wanderers are hungry and broke. They think of a way to trick a restaurant into giving them a free meal, but their scheme results in them being pursued by both the restaurant owner and the police. Soon, however, they discover that the restaurant owner has a secret of his own, and the tables are turned.

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Billy Bevan

Percy Nudge

Andy Clyde

Dusty Duncan

Ruth Hiatt

Ruth

Kewpie Morgan

'Rough' Rufus

Bobby Dunn

Waiter

Dave Morris

Ruth Taylor

Nurse

Marion McDonald

Customer

Charles Force

Detective
(uncredited)

Billy Gilbert

Produce Vendor
(uncredited)
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Numa the Lion

Numa
(uncredited)

Marvin Loback

Milkshake Customer
(uncredited)

William McCall

Customer
(uncredited)

Danny O'Shea

Customer
(uncredited)

Director
- Del Lord
Writers
- Al Giebler
- Gus Meins
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The release of the final print was delayed for several weeks because director Del Lord and title writer Al Giebler could not think of a title to serve as a trigger for the ending "Keystone Kops" chase sequence (which has little to do with the film's initial story about two tramps sneaking a meal at a restaurant). In the film, the chase sequence is initiated when the heroine, Ruth Hiatt, finds a paper dropped by the restaurant owner, Kewpie Morgan, and shows the paper to Billy Bevan. Lord and Giebler came up with several titles to motivate the final chase. "He was stealing my diploma as winner of the beauty contest!" "This proves he is President of the Kidnappers' Association!" and "The Big Clam was trying to get a corner on Muscle Shoals!" Finally, Lord came up with the title, "Look! A mortgage on Niagara Falls. We must stop it before he shuts off the water!" He phoned the title in to Giebler at Keystone Studios on the day before the film was to be sent out to distributors.

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Edited into Komedian kulta-aika (1957)

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Disjointed, But Has Some Good Gags

This Mack Sennett/Billy Bevan short comedy is disjointed, but it has a few pretty good gags that compensate for other stretches of more routine material and for some dated details that mar it a bit. The plot has Bevan and Andy Clyde as two drifters or "Wandering Willies", who get into a series of silly escapades. Director Del Lord epitomizes Sennett's approach to movie-making, and so in typical Sennett style, the segments often barely connect with each other, and it just keeps throwing one gag after another at the viewer, hoping that some of them will connect. In this one, a few of the gags are indeed quite good, and they make it worth watching. It could have been better overall with a more disciplined approach that would do a better job of high-lighting the best material, but that was not Sennett's style.

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