A family of out-of-work vaudeville performers are finding hard times in the east, so after hearing about the success of a fellow player in Hollywood, they decide to relocate to the movie capitol. Unfortunately, they find themselves equally unemployed there, staying at a n apartment complex filled with similar hopefuls.
Should you watch this? Honestly, only if you have a weird itch for 1930s Hollywood desperation or you’re working through a massive backlog of Mack Sennett-adjacent fluff. If you hate watching people make incredibly bad decisions that ruin their own lives, skip it. It’s loud, it’s frantic, and the logic is thinner than ...
Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
Mack Sennett
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"Should you watch this? Honestly, only if you have a weird itch for 1930s Hollywood desperation or you’re working through a massive backlog of Mack Sennett-adjacent fluff. If you hate watching people make incredibly bad decisions that ruin their own lives, skip it. It’s loud, it’s frantic, and the logic is thinner than the coffee they're probably serving in that apartment complex. The whole thing starts with that classic vaudeville-is-dead vibe. You know, the kind of scene where people look mise..."
Kitty McHugh
Al Tyler, Hugh Cummings, Olive Hatch, Mack Sennett, Walter Weems
United States
