A doctor, very much in love with his beautiful wife, comes to suspect that her visiting childhood friend Jack is more than just a friend. Jack's intentions are honorable, but everything he does tends to show his actions in a suspicious light, especially when burglars invade the house and Jack and the wife are caught together in their nightclothes.
Direction
Arbuckle orchestrates escalating farce with surgical precision.
Acting
Mabel Normand's expressive eyes do what dialogue never could.
Editing
Rapid cross-cutting builds comic tension to near-surreal pace.
Director
Roscoe Arbuckle
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during Arbuckle's peak stardom, this short exemplifies the 'cops and chaos' domestic comedy that defined Keystone and Comique studios.
Mabel Normand was Hollywood's highest-paid actress in 1916; her chemistry with Arbuckle here helped cement their status as silent cinema's most beloved platonic screen pairing.
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