A bumbling sawmill employee tries to win the hand of the owner's daughter while staying out of the clutches of the mill's bullying foreman.
Practical Effects
Semon's death-defying stunts with actual spinning sawblades.
Acting
Hardy's pre-Laurel menace—already that signature scowl.
Director
Larry Semon
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Oliver Hardy's 65th film appearance but among his last as a villain before teaming with Stan Laurel in 1926.
Semon was Hollywood's highest-paid silent comedian in the early 1920s, yet his extravagant stunt budgets eventually bankrupted him—this short's destruction of an actual sawmill was typical excess.
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