Mack Sennett Studios - 1712 Glendale Blvd., Silver Lake, Los Angeles, California, USA

Carole Lombard and Billy Bevan in His Unlucky Night (1928)

When a married man untangles a bachelor's love-line, he's liable to hang himself.

Billy Bevan

Dot Farley

Vernon Dent

Nicholas T. Barrows

Douglas Bronston

Harry McCoy

Friends Billy Trotter and Homer Brown, both traveling salesmen, meet up at a hotel on their travels. Since they last saw each other, Billy has gotten married. Homer is lamenting still being single and thinks that he will never fin...

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His Unlucky Night

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Billy Bevan travels in women&apos;s lingerie.... that is, he is a traveling salesman who sells the stuff. When Carole Lombard and he set Vernon Dent up for a night on the town, Billy&apos;s wife finds out and the usual series of hotel detectives and slamming doors ensue.

It&apos;s pretty much a standard two-reeler, full of pretty girls and innuendo and some of the gags are very good -- I am much taken by Andy Clyde&apos;s checker game with a cat. Mack Sennett was busy getting his new studio, intended for the sound era, ready for work and his studio could turn out a movie like this readily enough.

Still, there&apos;s something mechanical about the whole operation by this time. Ten years after Harold Lloyd had invented the Glass character and while Laurel and Hardy were starting out on their long series of comedies about two nitwits who were friends, Mack Sennett was still turning out comedies about stock characters. They&apos;re certainly funny, but after a while I long for something more: a human being I can recognize. Sennett tried that in the Smith Family series, but you never really see the character here; you just see Billy&apos;s mustache.

Well, I laughed. That&apos;s what these movies are supposed to make you do. Still, more would be nice.

Billy Bevan travels in women's lingerie.... that is, he is a traveling salesman who sells the stuff. When Carole Lombard and he set Vernon Dent up for a night on the town, Billy's wife finds out and the usual series of hotel detectives and slamming doors ensue.

It's pretty much a standard two-reeler, full of pretty girls and innuendo and some of the gags are very good -- I am much taken by Andy Clyde's checker game with a cat. Mack Sennett was busy getting his new studio, intended for the sound era, ready for work and his studio could turn out a movie like this readily enough.

Still, there's something mechanical about the whole operation by this time. Ten years after Harold Lloyd had invented the Glass character and while Laurel and Hardy were starting out on their long series of comedies about two nitwits who were friends, Mack Sennett was still turning out comedies about stock characters. They're certainly funny, but after a while I long for something more: a human being I can recognize. Sennett tried that in the Smith Family series, but you never really see the character here; you just see Billy's mustache.

Well, I laughed. That's what these movies are supposed to make you do. Still, more would be nice.

Friends Billy Trotter and Homer Brown, both traveling salesmen, meet up at a hotel on their travels. Since they last saw each other, Billy has gotten married. Homer is lamenting still being single and thinks that he will never find a woman who will want to be Mrs. Brown. Billy somehow manages to get one of his old girlfriends, telephone operator Peggy, to (reluctantly) set Homer up with one of her friends. She chooses Jennie, a homebody who spends her evenings playing checkers with her father. Billy and Peggy accompany Homer and Jennie on their date, acting as their chaperones. Billy is able to maneuver Homer and Jennie into getting married that evening. Back at the hotel, a combination of changed hotel rooms, Jennie's angry father, Billy's jealous wife, and a confused hotel detective leads to misunderstandings and complications for all concerned.

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