Oliver Hardy before Hardy — watch a legend get his start in flour power chaos.
Well-meaning but accident-prone bakery employee Larry is involved in numerous slapstick mishaps on the job. After accidentally causing the bakery owner to fall into a vat of cake batter Larry finds his job in jeopardy, but he redeems himself by foiling a robbery planned by the bakery foreman.
Practical Effects
Every pie, slip, and pratfall is real physical comedy.
Acting
Larry Semon's fearless commitment to bodily destruction.
Costume
Flour-covered suits as accidental avant-garde fashion.
Director
Norman Taurog
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was one of Oliver Hardy's earliest credited roles, filmed before he teamed with Stan Laurel.
Larry Semon was once Hollywood's second-highest-paid director, but most of his films are now lost.
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