Summary
“Peace and Quiet” unfurls a riotous narrative born from the chaotic crucible of early 20th-century journalism. Eddie, a neophyte editor, finds his nascent career sabotaged by a mischievous copy boy, whose deliberate misprint transforms a society debutante into a police fugitive in the morning's scandal sheet. This journalistic gaffe propels Eddie, seeking a balm for his frayed nerves, into the ostensible sanctuary of a secluded sanitarium. Yet, fate, with its customary irony, has orchestrated a reunion: the very debutante, her reputation in tatters, has also sought refuge within the same walls. Their uneasy cohabitation is further complicated by the sanitarium's motley inhabitants, notably a resourceful bootlegger and a housemaid steeped in superstition. The bootlegger, craving an undisturbed haven for his illicit operations, devises a scheme to impersonate a spectral entity. Far from securing his coveted solitude, this spectral masquerade ignites an escalating carnival of terror and confusion, utterly eradicating any semblance of peace or quiet from the institution's already precarious tranquility.
Synopsis
Eddie is a new editor in a typically chaotic newspaper office. To get revenge for an imagined slight, a copy boy mixes the type so that a debutante is described as "wanted by the police." Eddie goes to a sanitarium for peace and quiet. So does the debutante who has been libeled. The sanitarium houses also a bootlegger and a superstitious housemaid. To secure solitude, the bootlegger poses as a ghost and, as a result, the patients get anything but peace and quiet.
Director
Eddie Lyons
