The Giddy Age

I agree with the review by boblipton. The copy I found of this film was only 11 minutes, not 22. At first, I thought maybe IMDB was mistaken (that does sometimes happen), but after watching, I think someone edited down the film to 11 minutes...and it really shows.

The film begins with Andy arguing with his butler (Franklin Pangborn). Apparently the butler wants to get married and Andy insists the home stay woman-free. Well, only a moment later, a strange woman arrives at the door and lets herself in and Andy is confused. Shortly after, two men arrive and say the woman has amnesia and ask if she can stay there a few days. Andy agrees and hilarity ensues...or SHOULD have!

The short is unfunny and makes little sense. Some of this undoubtedly is because the film was truncated but what was left just wasn't very good. In this form, I would not recommend the movie.

Andy Clyde wants Franklin Pangborn to keep his mind on the canned lobster business instead of love. He wouldn't even have a woman in the house, until Dorothy Granger shows up, feigning amnesia to get in and vamp the old boy.

The version I looked at ran half the length it was originally set at, so obviously things have been left out. I suspect this was a good thing; in this period, Mack Sennett's movies were mostly directed by Burl Cranford 'Babe' Stafford, and tended to run slow and a little dull for my taste. If most of the stuff cut out was the exposition, then it's clearly a good thing. Of course, the alternative interpretation is that this was the first half of the movie as re-issued in two parts.