Bank president Mack Swain is carrying on an affair with Fontaine La Rue, the wife of his clerk, Chester Conklin. Meanwhile, Conklin is carrying on an affair with Alice Davenport, Swain's wife. It all comes to a head when janitor Slim Summerville locks Swain and Miss La Rue in the bank vault just as Conklin tries to blow it open for money so he and Mrs Davenport can run away.
It's a typical Keystone, filled with salacious behavior and low comedy. Swain and Conklin were often teamed together in this period as a "Big and Little" pair of comics, Swain as 'Ambrose', and Conklin as 'Walrus' -- referring to his mustache. Miss La Rue moved into features in 1918, and appeared in more than thirty, before retiring with the coming of sound. She died in 1964 at the age of 66.
It's a typical Keystone, filled with salacious behavior and low comedy. Swain and Conklin were often teamed together in this period as a "Big and Little" pair of comics, Swain as 'Ambrose', and Conklin as 'Walrus' -- referring to his mustache. Miss La Rue moved into features in 1918, and appeared in more than thirty, before retiring with the coming of sound. She died in 1964 at the age of 66.
