Counsel on de Fence

Harry Langdon is an inept lawyer whose boss, Earle Foxe, gets thrown in the hospital, so it's up to Harry to mount a defense for client Renee Whitney, accused of murdering her husband with poison.

Of course, saying that Harrry is an inept lawyer is redundant, since he's inept in whatever he does. Fortunately, here he is directed by Arthur Ripley, part of his team at Sennett and in his early features, so the audience is in for some prime Langdon, in which the comedy goes on in his head, and we can see it. Later, of course, we get some more standard slapstick, but the sequence in which he watches Foxe make love to Miss Whitney is prime work.