Summary
This 1928 silent comedy, 'Keep Smiling,' throws a jobless Jimmy Aubrey into a series of escalating predicaments. After his landlady takes his clothes, he improvises a sailor suit, accidentally brains a girl with an alarm clock, and then has to contend with a rival seaman and a very annoyed lunch counter owner. Expect classic silent-era chaos, especially involving pie.
Synopsis
This Weiss Bros. production starring veteran silent comic Jimmy Aubrey opens with the warning. "Man is clay (a woman's touch and he becomes all wet) and his name is mud." When jobless Jimmy's landlady seizes his clothes for lack of rent payment, he improvises a sailor suit and finds himself vying with a real gob for the love of a girl he's already accidentally brained with his alarm clock. Fleeing the irate seaman, he finds himself winds up stuck at a lunch counter with no money and one very punchy proprietor. Needless to say, things will get messy. Hint: there's pie on the menu. - Dennis Harvey
