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Charley Chase's wedding plans hit a
snag when he saves a gangster's moll (Ann Doran) from a falling
carton of canned goods. Someone snaps a photo as the woman
tumbles onto Charley's lap, and when his fiancée (Louise
Stanley) sees the picture, she dumps him―no questions asked.
So Charley decides to kill himself,
but of course his attempts all fail miserably―when he tries to
hang himself, the rope pulls the fixture (and a lot of plaster)
from the ceiling, a falling blind blocks his leap from the
window, etc. Finally, he convinces the gangster to do him a
favor and set one of his hit men on his trail. Naturally,
that's when Charley's fiancée figures out that he's a hero, not
a philanderer, and forgives him―now he's got to stop the hit
man!
Columbia, which constantly recycled
the material for its two-reelers, remade this picture in 1945 as
Off Again, On Again, and starred
Shemp Howard.
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