Charley Chase plays a male secretary to his girlfriend's father, a big business mover and shaker trying to buy a railroad line.
The father, a stuffy blow-hard type wants to jump on some information about a railroad line soon to go on sale. Afraid his competitors would stop at nothing, including murder to keep him from buying the line he forces Charley to trade places with him before leaving to make the deal. Charley is supposed to get the train tickets and rent a professional man's wardrobe, suit, shoes and dress hat so he can pretend to be the businessman. The businessman then pretends to be the lowly secretary. Easily confused Charley gets tickets to the wrong city and rents a new suit that includes a magician's top hat! Charley does not realize but when he nervously taps his `magician's' hat flowers, bubbles and playing cards appear. To those around him he appears crazy. Finally on the train all kinds of problems and comedy ensues and in the end Charley gets the girl and a raise! This is a fine example of the typical Chase early sound films with tons of cute bits, snappy dialogue, slap-stick physical comedy and it's all well worth your time.
- larry41onEbay
- 29 feb 2004