- A farce about three unnamed bad guys trying to steal $25K that a dying father left behind for his son. Opens with sailor Bill giving son, pet monkey and the lock box of money to a lawyer. Lawyer is supposed to deliver son, monkey and money to father's former shipmate named Captain Fairchild. Multiple failed robbery attempts throughout. Klutzy boyfriend Clyde wants to marry Captain's niece, Grace/Phyllis. Heroics in the end save the day with happy ending for all. The inter title cards are a big help.—wyldeone2
- A sailor named Bill takes an unnamed boy and his pet monkey to lawyer Peckham. Gives lawyer a note from Joe Nickerson telling him to take boy and strong box of $25K to capt. Fairchild.
Some bad guys followed Bill and boy to lawyer's office. Then bad guys follow lawyer and boy to capt's house. They shoot lawyer while in the car parked out in front of capt's house. The bad guys run away with strong box but find it is a fishing tackle box instead.
Grace told Clyde not to wear his wings to dinner and why. He did it anyway. She takes them off before he sits down and wraps them in his handkerchief. She puts it back in his pocket. When he pulls out his hanky to wipe his hand from monkey bite they fly into capt's soup.
Capt tells him to leave. Capt's niece listed as Grace in cast but is called Phyllis by her aviator boyfriend Clyde on an inter title card displayed on the screen when he her to elope with him. Captain hates aviators but we are never told why.
Later the Captain gives the box of money to the cook to hide. He covers it in icing and decorates it as a cake. Bad guys peek through window and see it. The boy sees the cook finishing the cake and sneaks in after lights out, takes a taste and steals it.
Bad guys come in but can't find the cake/box so they kidnap niece and try for a ransom delivery. One of them knows how to tap phones but gets caught. Captain and police go after the other two but arrive as an air plane is taking off. Clyde is the pilot at gun point since he beat up one of the bad guys.
Niece is hidden in plane and the boy runs and hangs on to the plane as it takes off. Clyde fights with bad guy and they both fall off the plane but cling together sharing bad guys parachute. Boy manages to climb in cock pit. The he and niece switch places and she lands the plane safely.
Clyde and Grace/Phyllis get married in the end.
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