Mr. Jones must go to the big city and get married in order to receive an inheritance, but his marriage-of-convenience turns into a nightmare.
Acting
Lloyd Hamilton's impeccable timing without a single spoken word.
Practical Effects
Genuine stunt work and destruction before safety regulations existed.
Director
Fred Hibbard
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lloyd Hamilton was known as the 'Ham' of silent comedy, famous for his slow-burn exasperation that Charlie Chaplin reportedly admired.
This 1924 'marriage of convenience' plot satirized contemporary moral panics about gold-diggers and the emerging 'companionate marriage' debates of the Jazz Age.
US
