
Young Sonny's dying father leaves him in the care of Breezy, a hobo he has mistaken for a wealthy businessman. Breezy takes Sonny and his dog along with him on his travels, and they find themselves in the health resort of Sulphur Springs, where Cyrus, the owner, mistakes Breezy for the medical advisor for whom he's been waiting.


The Existential Vagrant and the Architecture of DeceitThe silent era of the 1920s often oscillated between the grandiloquent epics of Griffith and the intimate, often biting social commentaries disguised as low-brow comedies. A Self-Made Failure falls squarely into the latter category, yet it possesses a peculiar, haun...

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"The Existential Vagrant and the Architecture of DeceitThe silent era of the 1920s often oscillated between the grandiloquent epics of Griffith and the intimate, often biting social commentaries disguised as low-brow comedies. A Self-Made Failure falls squarely into the latter category, yet it possesses a peculiar, haunting depth that distinguishes it from the assembly-line shorts of its contemporaries. Lloyd Hamilton, an actor whose physical comedy was always underpinned by a sense of profound, ..."
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