This little special effects comedy is quite amusing, and for its time it is also very well-crafted. The whole story relies on the stop-action technique, which soon became one of the standard tools in such movies, to create surprise visual effects. Most of the camera effects are of good quality, and would have been considered pretty good even in a movie from several years later when techniques were a little more refined.
The simple story has a traveling salesman checking into a hotel room, only to encounter a great many unexpected developments. While simple in themselves, they are funny, and almost all of them are seamless, which could only have been done through care and patience on the part of the film-makers and the actors.
It gives the appearance of having been well-conceived and well-crafted. The print is now scratchy and sometimes a little jerky, but that is hardly the fault of the original film-makers. It's easily one of the more entertaining movies of its era, and it even holds up well enough against many movies of the following decade, when scenarios like this could be made more elaborate and detailed.
The simple story has a traveling salesman checking into a hotel room, only to encounter a great many unexpected developments. While simple in themselves, they are funny, and almost all of them are seamless, which could only have been done through care and patience on the part of the film-makers and the actors.
It gives the appearance of having been well-conceived and well-crafted. The print is now scratchy and sometimes a little jerky, but that is hardly the fault of the original film-makers. It's easily one of the more entertaining movies of its era, and it even holds up well enough against many movies of the following decade, when scenarios like this could be made more elaborate and detailed.
