Summary
In the sun‑bleached expanse of a California orange grove, the affluent cultivator Jack presides over a bizarre ritual: three impeccably dressed assistants, their woolly chaps flapping, discharge revolvers at ripening fruit, turning the orchard into a chaotic battlefield of citrus. The cross‑eyed gunner, hopelessly inaccurate, is handed a double‑barreled shotgun, which unleashes a deluge of oranges that cascade like a storm of golden spheres. At precisely four o'clock, the frenetic shooting ceases for a genteel tea, attended by Jack’s betrothed, the luminous Vera Reynolds. Jack petitions his patriarch for matrimonial blessing, yet a misplaced photograph of the vivacious maid Gale Henry reaches the patriarch’s desk, prompting him to dispatch a lawyer and three alluring women to sabotage the union. Undeterred, Jack and Vera abscond, sparking a comedic cascade of misunderstandings as the matrimonial saboteurs arrive, only to be ensnared in a tangle of mistaken identities, slapstick confrontations, and the ever‑present orange‑laden absurdity that defines their world.
Synopsis
Jack is a wealthy orange grower. His three assistants, attired in dress suits and woolly chaps, shoot down the oranges with revolvers. One of them, being cross-eyed, is unable to hit them, and he gives him a double-barreled shotgun. As a result, he is caught in a veritable cloudburst of oranges. Precisely at four, they stop for tea. Among the guests is his fiancée (Vera Reynolds). He writes his father for permission to marry her, but his father receives a picture of the maid (Gale Henry) instead, and sends a lawyer and three attractive girls to break up the match at once. Meanwhile, they elope, and when the matrimonial wrecking crew arrives, all sorts of complications ensue.
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