Let 'er Go

Summary

A pastoral canvas of slapstick chaos, stitched with rural hormones and buzzing livestock, Let 'er Go treats Cupid like a minor side-note while Sennett’s carnivalesque imagination detonates across barnyards and beehives. Love may be the nominal thread, yet the film’s true pulse is kinetic anarchy: a cow’s tail lashed to a milker’s suspenders becomes a slapshot fuse; a blind-folded swing catapults its victim into apiarian apocalypse; a fishing hook snags Louise Fazenda’s modesty from a creek as casually as landing a trout. From that point forward, every creature—dog, horse, infant, bicycle—joins a centrifugal stampede, a Keystone hymn to entropy that leaves courtship choking on its own dust.

Synopsis

On the usual thread of romance in this kind of Mack Sennett comedy, are hung a series of amusing situations, and one of the most original is where one of the "fighting gentlemen" attempts to keep the tail of the cow he is milking still by tying it to his suspenders. When the cow takes fright and decides to make her getaway it is easy to imagine what happens. This, however, is only the outcome of another funny incident in which the dog and a couple of his grown-up playmates are engaged in a game of "blind man's buff" and he who happens to be chosen "it" gets in the way of an old-fashioned swing in motion. He is knocked into the midst of several hives of bees, and his mad rush to escape the stings of the insects sets several other comedy properties in motion. An old automobile, a team of horses in a runaway dash, driven by a tiny baby boy, and various persons on bicycles and otherwise propelled enter the chase. Another amusing and original incident is where Louise Fazenda, in a perfectly modest bathing suit, is fished from the stream by the hook of a young man's fishing pole. - Moving Picture World, 12 June 1920.