Summary
The silent comedy, "The Complete Life," introduces us to a dapper, albeit slightly inebriated, gentleman who, in a moment of delightful absurdity, mistakes a public telephone booth for a waiting taxi. This initial misunderstanding quickly gives way to genuine crisis when, through the very phone he intended to use for transport, he learns his fiancée plans to sever their engagement. Galvanized by this revelation, our protagonist embarks on a frantic, laughter-inducing automobile chase, a whirlwind of slapstick incidents designed to showcase the era's physical comedy prowess. His arrival at his beloved's doorstep, however, does not bring resolution. Instead, he is immediately entangled in a new domestic emergency: the purported danger facing Aunt Emma. This 'peril' is swiftly revealed to be a mundane marital spat, prompting the hero to arrive at a sweeping, and frankly archaic, conclusion about women and relationships. He decides that the only path to domestic harmony is to adopt a 'cave man' philosophy, asserting dominance in a final, problematic twist to an otherwise spirited romp.
A tipsy fellow enters a telephone booth and waits to be driven off, thinking he has stepped into a taxi. He finally gets his girl on the telephone and discovers she is about to break their engagement. Hero jumps into his auto and the race to the girl's house is made up of a series of comedy incidents that furnish plenty of laughs. Once there hero is off on another errand. The girl's Aunt Emma is in danger. Hero discovers that her trouble is a quarrel with her husband, whereupon hero decides women are all alike and he must turn cave man to retain the upper hand.
