There's only most of the second reel of this 1923 Fox comedy that survives. The Foxes were the most expensively produced shorts of the silent era, and had terrible survivable rates; likewise Harry Sweet shorts. This is the only one I've seen. A couple of years later, he would largely disappear behind the camera, and with the coming of sound he wound up in charge of RKO's shorts department. He would die in a plane crash in 1933, only 31 years old.
It's certainly a sharply executed comedy, with Sweet in two roles, a beautiful lady genie, Bud Jamison as a hotel detective, and a lobby at the bottom of an atrium. Everyone keeps falling onto people in the lobby.
It would be interesting to see the complete film, but I fear that, like many silent movies, it survives only in truncates form. That part is very good indeed.
It's certainly a sharply executed comedy, with Sweet in two roles, a beautiful lady genie, Bud Jamison as a hotel detective, and a lobby at the bottom of an atrium. Everyone keeps falling onto people in the lobby.
It would be interesting to see the complete film, but I fear that, like many silent movies, it survives only in truncates form. That part is very good indeed.
