Never Touched Me

Summary

Within the dimly lit confines of the Killjoy Café, a paradoxical sanctuary where the décor exudes first‑class elegance while the cuisine and service languish in abject mediocrity, a tangled tableau of desire, deception, and slapstick unfolds. Billy Fay portrays a lovelorn patron whose affection for the enigmatic Bebe Daniels is thwarted by a cascade of mistaken identities, each more absurd than the last. Noah Young, as his well‑meaning but bumbling confidant, inadvertently ignites a rivalry with the roguish Lew Harvey, whose own designs on the café’s proprietress spiral into a farcical duel of wits. The ever‑present comic engine, 'Snub' Pollard, orchestrates a series of pratfalls that culminate in a chaotic kitchen showdown, while Harold Lloyd’s cameo injects a fleeting yet poignant moment of silent pathos. As the night deepens, the café’s veneer of sophistication crumbles, revealing a microcosm of human folly where love, hunger, and ambition collide in a crescendo of visual gags and tender glances, ultimately resolving in a bittersweet reconciliation that underscores the film’s central axiom: elegance can mask emptiness, but sincerity cannot be concealed.

Synopsis

At the Killjoy Cafe, "everything is first class except the food and the service."