Meet the Folks

Not especially amusing comedy on the well-worn theme of feuding families (see Semon's Bears and Bad Men 1918 and Keaton's Our Hospitality 1923).

Following his (moderate) success with Mermaid Comies at Astra, Jimmie Adams was given his own series by Christie (Jimmie Adams Comedies). Here he plays the hypochondriac James Pettingill on his way to spend time in the Tennessee Hills with his uncle Dudley who meets a young girl on the train, played not, one is relieved to discover, by Harold Lloyd's younger brother but by an obscure but pretty actress called Gayle Lloyd, whose two families, unbeknownst to either of them, are engaged in a desperate feud. Patsy O'Byrne plays the gruesome aunty. What follows is a lot of slapstick crossfire.

The best feature (as in many of the Christie comedies) is Norman McLeod's matchstick men who enliven the titlecards.