Marcel Perez' boss tells him he must work late Friday evening and all day Saturday. Perez doesn't let that stop him from keeping his beach date with Nilde Baracchi -- which doesn't go as well as planned in this funny short comedy.
The Internet Movie DataBase claims that William Seiter is the director of this movie. Ben Model and Steve Massa, who curated it from a first reel held at the Museum of Modern Art, a second reel at the Library of Congress and examining newspaper and copyright files, say that Perez directed it. Perez, who was on his third or fourth career as a leading screen comedian -- every time he rose to prominence, he would change his name, his studio, his country of origin, his marital status.... he had moved to the United States a couple of years earlier and was making a name for himself, merging American and European styles.
This one seems to fall a bit more on the European side, given his pulled faces, but it's hard to tell. The first reel, in which a long series of mechanical gags occur, doesn't survive at all well. The ones that do involve the leads and their automobile, and the gags strike me as ones that Harold Lloyd would be doing in a couple of years; Perez was a very imaginative gag technician.
The Internet Movie DataBase claims that William Seiter is the director of this movie. Ben Model and Steve Massa, who curated it from a first reel held at the Museum of Modern Art, a second reel at the Library of Congress and examining newspaper and copyright files, say that Perez directed it. Perez, who was on his third or fourth career as a leading screen comedian -- every time he rose to prominence, he would change his name, his studio, his country of origin, his marital status.... he had moved to the United States a couple of years earlier and was making a name for himself, merging American and European styles.
This one seems to fall a bit more on the European side, given his pulled faces, but it's hard to tell. The first reel, in which a long series of mechanical gags occur, doesn't survive at all well. The ones that do involve the leads and their automobile, and the gags strike me as ones that Harold Lloyd would be doing in a couple of years; Perez was a very imaginative gag technician.
