A young man has a fine automobile and girl. They decide to get married and head off to town for a preacher, pursued by her disapproving father.
It sounds like the set-up for a fine, rollicking Keystone movie from 1915, or perhaps a Harold Lloyd short from 1919, doesn't it? It's actually a Christie comedy, directed by Scott Sidney, starring Jay Belasco and Billie Rhodes. The Christies, in this period, prided themselves on producing comedies with scripts, and none of that low-brow slapstick that was enjoyed only by people with no taste.
I must be one of those people with no taste. Good comedy, it seems to me, is provided by an askew vision that, for an instant, turns the world upside down for an instant. There is, alas, none of that here, only a tale of two youngsters eloping and putting it over on the disapproving parent.
It sounds like the set-up for a fine, rollicking Keystone movie from 1915, or perhaps a Harold Lloyd short from 1919, doesn't it? It's actually a Christie comedy, directed by Scott Sidney, starring Jay Belasco and Billie Rhodes. The Christies, in this period, prided themselves on producing comedies with scripts, and none of that low-brow slapstick that was enjoyed only by people with no taste.
I must be one of those people with no taste. Good comedy, it seems to me, is provided by an askew vision that, for an instant, turns the world upside down for an instant. There is, alas, none of that here, only a tale of two youngsters eloping and putting it over on the disapproving parent.
