Virginia Pearson has married Anders Randolf, but hasn't told him she has a grown son in Charley Chase. When he comes to visit, she wants the old boy to like him first, so Charley has to valet for him. Meanwhile, there's new housemaid Martha Sleeper to attract Chase's interest, and to try to take off his shoes while he's shaving Randolf with a straight razor.
Ouch! It's a very funny and typical short comedy from Chase's peak silent period, a virtual three-act farce in two reels, punctuated. By Chase's great comedy sequences, with people sneaking around and missing discovery by fractions of seconds. The timing will be familiar to anyone who grew up, as I did, with Looney Tunes, and Friz Freleng's door-slamming routines, derived, as this one is, from stage farces.
Ouch! It's a very funny and typical short comedy from Chase's peak silent period, a virtual three-act farce in two reels, punctuated. By Chase's great comedy sequences, with people sneaking around and missing discovery by fractions of seconds. The timing will be familiar to anyone who grew up, as I did, with Looney Tunes, and Friz Freleng's door-slamming routines, derived, as this one is, from stage farces.