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- While Winnie Winkle works, her kid brother Perry leads a rag-tag baseball team.
- Earl McCarthy is back as C.W. Kahles' comic-strip hero Hairbreadth Harry. This time his sweetie Beautiful Belinda (Erin La Rue) is an "up-to-date sports model" kidnapped by Relentless Rudolph (John J. Richardson), who's "not just a bad apple, he was the whole orchard." When she refuses to sign over her gold mine, she's threatened with a "free bath" in boiling oil, being crushed by a giant papier-mâché boulder dangling from a burning rope and other grim fates. Naturally, our Harry rides to the rescue. The funniest sequence has him outfoxing the villains in a man-sized, logic-defying "shell game." - Dennis Harvey
- Greedy, Unscrupulous Rudolph learns that Belinda has just inherited $10,000, and he decides to steal it from her. He and his henchmen arrive at her house just as the money is being delivered. Meanwhile, Hairbreadth Harry observes the whole scene, and he hides the money for Belinda. But while Rudolph keeps Harry and Belinda occupied, his henchmen are already going about the job of stealing the money.
- In the first of eleven screen comedies based on C.W. Kahles' comic strip, Earl McCarthy is Hairbreadth Harry, forever tasked with rescuing Beautiful Belinda (Charlotte Merriam) from peril. She's introduced as being "so warm-hearted she had to wear asbestos lingerie," and proves it by kicking up a flapper storm in the middle of a public park. This revelry is short-lived however, as the lady is soon held hostage for her father's "secret formula" by Relentless Rudolph (John J. Richardson) and his henchmen in a hideout tricked out with haunted-house trap doors and other frights, even a mummy. - Dennis Harvey
- Izzy and Lizzy send a telegram to the O'Connors announcing that they plan to visit during their College Break. Oui.
- Two families who are always fighting in the neighborhood, make up and go camping together causing havoc wherever they pass.
- Part of a short-lived "Izzie and Lizzie" series named after the male and female ingénues in two comically contrasted families living next door to one another, this slapstick adventure finds Lizzie Murphy (Bess True) "going Hollywood." Having won a beauty contest, she's invited to travel west for a film test. Both Izzie Cohen and the Murphy menfolk are soon in hot pursuit, having belatedly realized that (according to a lurid tell-all book) Tinsel Town is the ruin of many a virtuous maiden. When they arrive, Lizzie is already starring in a movie and the wide-eyed family folk are fast wreaking havoc on the lot at "Paramet Studio." The gimmick of clashing Irish and Jewish stereotypes was a popular one for decades, most famously in long-running Broadway plays like ABIE'S IRISH ROSE and films like many-sequel-ed THE COHENS AND THE KELLYS. - Dennis Harvey
- Billy Davis discovers that his father's bakery business is in serious financial trouble and leaves college in order to help his family. He goes to work as a baker and soon falls in love with Mary Bryson, whose father is Davis's biggest rival in the bread business. When Bryson's secretary bribes the Davis foreman to put cement in the bread, Mary learns of the plot and warns Billy. The concrete loaves have been delivered, so Billy is forced to rent a plane and tell his customers of the trick by means of a sky-written message. The elder Bryson berates his foreman for underhanded dealing, and Billy later beats the foreman in a fight.
- Another entry in the "Izzy and Lizzie" 2-reel comedy series
- J. Anthony Bowden, who comes from a long line of brave Bowden family men, is not considered hero material by his father. To make matters worse, Anthony's fiancée, Elma Saunders, completely agrees and is starting to waiver in her feelings. After the elder Bowden leaves for a sea voyage, Anthony is falsely arrested for the murder of an old man. Wanting to prove his manliness, Anthony does not protest, then later escapes from jail with his burly cellmate. Anthony then learns that the cellmate has a grudge against Elma's father and wants to kill him. Elma is kidnapped by the convict's gang, a group known as the "Murder Club." After a series of adventures, Anthony saves Elma, only to discover that the entire escapade was a ruse set up by his father, who hired an out-of-work opera company to pose as members of the murder club. Satisfied that Anthony finally has proven himself to be a man, Bowden and Elma warmly embrace him.
- "Relentless" Rudolph and his gang are attacking the base of the Canadian Royal Mounted Canadian Police commanded by the captain. Hairbreadth Harry arrives on the scene and joins the Mounties. Through a snowstorm of feathers from a pillow fight, Harry gives chase to Rudolph and his thugs. For a short moment, they capture Harry, but he quickly escapes. However, they succeed in abducting Belinda, the captain's daughter and Harry's sweetheart. Harry pursues them in a canoe.