Specialty CollectionGenre: 1930s FEATURE FILMS
Description: CHARLOTTE GREENWOOD, CLIFF EDWARDS, REGINALD DENNY, SALLY EILERS, EUGENE PALLETTE, DOROTHY CHRISTY, JOAN PEERS, NATALIE MOORHEAD, EDWARD BROPHY, WALTER MERRILL, SIDNEY BRACY. BUSTER KEATON COMEDY FEATURE , REMAKE OF THE 1920 FILM OF THE SAME NAME WHICH HAD STARRED EUGENE PALLETTE AND WAS BASED ON A PLAY THAT RAN IN 1918. KEATON PLAYS A MAN WHO EARNS HIS LIVING NAILING UP ADVERTISEMENTS ON TELEGRAPH POLES. WHILE WORKING ONE DAY, HE IS NEARLY KILLED BY A CAR. THE DRIVER, DENNY, IS EXTREMELY UPSET BECAUSE THE GIRL HE LOVES, EILERS, REFUSES TO MARRY HIM UNTIL HER OLDER SISTER, CHRISTY, IS BETROTHED. COMEDIES BEING WHAT THEY ARE, CHRISTY MEETS KEATON AND FALLS IN LOVE. KNOWING THAT CHRISTY WILL FLY INTO A JEALOUS RAGE IF KEATON IS CAUGHT FLIRTING WITH ANOTHER WOMAN, THE REST OF THE CLAN TAKES GREAT PAINS TO ENSURE THIS DOESN'T HAPPEN. UNFORTUNATELY DENNY EMPLOYS HIS LOVELY SISTER TO TRAIN THE DIM-WITTED KEATON IN THE PROPER SKILLS OF PROPOSING MARRIAGE. THIS OF COURSE LEADS TO THE TEACHER-STUDENT RELATIONSHIP BLOSSOMING INTO TRUE LOVE, WITH THE RESULTING COMEDY GAGS FOLLOWING CLOSELY BEHIND. THE FILM WAS SHOT MOSTLY ON LOCATION AT KEATON'S PALATIAL BEVERLY HILLS HOME. KEATON AS A WOULD-BE WEALTHY PLAYBOY, ARRIVES AT A LUXURIOUS ESTATE AFTER A ROADSIDE MISHAP. HE IS SOON RECRUITED TO ROMANCE AN ELIGIBLE YOUNG BEAUTY. ACCIDENT. HIGH SOCIETY.
