A pawn-shop employee who looks like a robot must substitute for it after it becomes damaged.A pawn-shop employee who looks like a robot must substitute for it after it becomes damaged.A pawn-shop employee who looks like a robot must substitute for it after it becomes damaged.
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Richard Daniels
- Professor Alonzo Dodo
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Babe London
- Overdressed Flirt
- (uncredited)
Fay Wray
- Girl Entering Taxi
- (uncredited)
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- GoofsThe pawn shop owner breaks the head on the robot. But only he and the main protagonist witness it. Yet minutes later the robot's creator builds a replacement head and brings it to shop. He had no way of knowing the robot was broken.
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Roach Tries a Touch of Sennett
With Hampton del Ruth in charge of this Arthur Stone comedy, it's little surprise that it seems more like a Sennett comedy than a Roach comedy. In fact, the "mechanical man" plot was used several times by Sennett; 1917's "A Clever Dummy" with Ben Turpin springs to mind. The second half has him running a pawn shop and I don't have to tell you what that sounds like.
Stone seems more like a precursor of Harry Langdon, with his childlike attitude, than a more typical Roach character, grounded at least partially in the real world. Perhaps this was a style of comedy that Del Ruth hoped to foster, because most of the people that Stone encounters and annoys -- which are the same thing -- quickly grow impatient with him.
There are a couple of faces that will make this interesting for the folks who like to spot the stars before anyone knew who they were. Olive Borden shows up to run a scam, and Fay Wray can be spotted in a taxi. However this short, while never less than watchable, is not as good as one would wish. Particularly Hal Roach.
Stone seems more like a precursor of Harry Langdon, with his childlike attitude, than a more typical Roach character, grounded at least partially in the real world. Perhaps this was a style of comedy that Del Ruth hoped to foster, because most of the people that Stone encounters and annoys -- which are the same thing -- quickly grow impatient with him.
There are a couple of faces that will make this interesting for the folks who like to spot the stars before anyone knew who they were. Olive Borden shows up to run a scam, and Fay Wray can be spotted in a taxi. However this short, while never less than watchable, is not as good as one would wish. Particularly Hal Roach.
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- boblipton
- Oct 13, 2014
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- Runtime23 minutes
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