Harry Depp has a small salary now, but great prospects, so George C. Pearce agrees to his marrying daughter Elinor Field. What Pearce can't stand is Depp buying everything on time payment, so he conspires with every businessman in town, including Depp's boss, to teach the young couple a lesson.
In our modern society, where everything seems to be put on credit cards - at 19% interest - the rise of credit in the late 1910s and 1920s seems a bit odd, but this it a straightforward situational comedy with a lot of charm. It's directed by William Beaudine just before he moved from shorts into features, where he prospered until the mid-1930s and an ill-considered move to Britain left him a back number when he returned to Hollywood.
