Summary
A bucolic newlywed pair—he a gullible hayseed clutching a dowry of soil-encrusted savings, she a bright-eyed prairie songbird—alight upon the chromium metropolis, its skyline a rack of glittering hypodermics promising instant fortune. Seduced by a cabal of sharp-suited petro-grifters, the lad sinks every red cent into phantom derricks, while his bride, left to marinate in neon solitude, boards the Trip-to-Heaven railway, a cliff-hugging funicular whose name alone smells of mortality. Believing himself utterly excised from the ledger of the living, the farmer stages a black-comic danse macabre: pistol misfires, noose frays, gas-meter jams—each suicide a vaudeville pratfall. Yet providence, half sleight-of-hand and half nickelodeon, restores spouse and purse alike, the swindlers clapped in irons as the curtain falls on a marriage re-inked in slapstick grace.
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A young married couple go to the big city to spend their honeymoon. The young farmer thinks that he can become rick quick by investing his money in some oil stocks. In the meantime his wife grows lonely and decides to take a trip to heaven. "Trip to Heaven" is the name of a scenic railway. When hubby returns home without his money he finds the note and proceeds to try to kill himself. He tries shooting, hanging, gas and other methods of destruction, but fails in each. In the end he finds his wife, his money is recovered and the crooks are captured by the police.
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