Summary
In the velvet hush of a mansion that reeks of old money and mothballs, a human firecracker named Dick Bradley—equal parts flâneur and hobo—slips into patent-leather shoes that aren’t his, masquerading as the blue-blood fiancé of a porcelain heiress. The chandeliers quiver; the ancestors in oil snarl; the butler’s eyebrow arches like a cat’s back. One mischievous grin from Fairbanks and the ballroom’s baroque symmetry fractures into cubist chaos: a waltz becomes a stampede, polite teacups sprout cracks, and corseted aunts levitate on scandal. Into this tea-soaked battlefield crashes a cadre of crooks—urban wolves in bowler hats—expecting docile prey. Instead they meet Dick, whose limbs coil like watch springs, whose smirk detonates chandeliers, whose heart vaults from prank to rapture when he locks eyes with the real fiancée—now doubly betrothed, doubly bewildered. In twelve reels of slapstick sonata, every banister slide, every flying candelabra, every stolen kiss rewrites the social ledger: pedigree is a costume, identity a dare, love the wildest anarchy of all.
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A young man impersonates his best friend, and in doing so upsets the decorum at a stuffy family gathering and falls in love. The arrival of a gang of hoodlums further disrupts the formalities, but our hero thwarts them and saves the day.
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