Ham gets a job at the lunch counter at a fitness club and soon rouses the ire of the manager.
Acting
Lloyd Hamilton's elastic face carries every frame.
Stunts
Pre-OSHA gym equipment gags hit different.
Director
Norman Taurog
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was John Wayne's first credited screen appearance — he's literally just 'Man on Stool' at the lunch counter, two years before his breakthrough in The Big Trail.
The 1920s fitness craze this satirizes? Basically Peloton with worse mustaches. Hamilton's physical comedy was already considered old-school even then — he was deliberately channeling Chaplin's rivals.
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