Chase Yourself

In this 1926 Christie Comedy short, Jimmie Adams leads a ragtag trio of 'Knights of the Road' who find themselves trading the open rails for the treacherous dust of the American West. Alongside his companions Lavoris and Turpentine, Jimmie’s simple pursuit of a meal is interrupted by the arrival of Two-Gun Joe, the region's most feared outlaw. When the sheriff scares the bandit off, Joe accidentally discards a monogrammed pipe—a small object that carries the weight of a deadly reputation. Jimmie, ever the opportunist, pockets the relic, unaware that the ranch-owning Molly and her cowardly foreman now mistake him for the very killer they fear. What follows is a sharp satire of Western machismo, as Jimmie accepts a job he is entirely unqualified for, setting the stage for an inevitable, high-stakes showdown when the real outlaw returns to reclaim his property.