A 1921 Scottish comedy so chaotic, even the film itself couldn't stick around.
A woman named Bunty Bigger struggles to keep her family in line in a small Scottish village. For one, her brother Jeemy faces jail time for robbing a bank. Meanwhile, her father, Tammas, pays back the stolen money with funds given him by Susie Simpson, a woman who hopes to marry him. Susie gets angry, so Bunty borrows money to pay her back. Things turn out well when Bunty gets married in a double-wedding ceremony—during which her father not only gives her away but gets married himself. The movie is based on a play by Graham Moffat. The film is lost.
Acting
Leatrice Joy's comic timing carried her to stardom.
Direction
Barker's 70+ films show relentless early Hollywood hustle.
Director
Reginald Barker
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Graham Moffat's play ran 400+ nights in London, proving Scottish dialect comedy had serious box office pull in the 1910s.
Leatrice Joy became Cecil B. DeMille's go-to flapper after this, though she'd retire at 32—probably exhausted from carrying entire families.
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