Cupid, Registered Guide

Rare comedy in the Edgar Jones "north woods" series filmed in Maine.

Jones plays Bob Stickney a Maine woods guide who's rescued by Doc Lang (Carlton Brickert) after he falls down a hillside and breaks his shoulder.

Lang wants to marry heiress Lana Candage (Edna May Sperl) but she's been "kidnapped" by her father (William Peavey) to remote Telos Lake in the Allagash. Daddy wants her to marry dopey Mortimer Totten (Ben Hendricks, Jr.) and writes a codicil in his will that Lana will only inherit his estate if she marries with his permission and in his presence.

After Mortimer shows up at the lake camp, Lana pretends to be sick so they'll have to send for Doc Lang. Bob brings the Doc and they conspire to trick old daddy by taking him to see the Tollywhoppus (a version of Bigfoot).

When the old man boards a "carry" to get across the lake, they suspend him on the ropes and force him to agree to the marriage of Lana and Doc.

Edna May Sperl and Doctor Carlton Brickert want to get married, but her father wants her to marry drip Ben Hendricks Jr. Since they're all up in the Maine woods, it's up to guide Edgar Jones to figure out how to make everything come out right.

Jones and his crew shot a bunch of shorts in Maine in 1920 and 1921. He took advantage of the piney country. Of the four or five I've seen, all have been dramas. This is the only comedy. It's more a situational comedy than the more familiar slapstick that people think of when it comes to silent comedy, but it certainly takes advantage of the local scenery.