All Wet

In the 1926 comedy All Wet, the perpetually bewildered 'Snub' Pollard portrays a rural simpleton whose father, desperate to civilize him, ships him off to the urban jungle of his aunt’s high-society circle. Pollard, with his signature downward-slanting moustache and nervous energy, is an immediate puncture wound in the balloon of his aunt’s aristocratic pretensions. However, the social friction takes a sharp turn when news arrives that this 'hick' has struck oil. Suddenly, the very socialites who mocked him—including a predatory cousin named Cleopatra—pivot into a mercenary dance of seduction. The film serves as a satirical look at the transactional nature of the Roaring Twenties, using Pollard’s physical vulnerability to highlight the absurdity of the nouveau riche and the vultures who circle them.