Larry Semon

Marie Astaire

James Donnelly

C. Graham Baker

A young man is part of a traveling medicine show owned by an elderly &quot;professor&quot; and his beautiful daughter. His job is to keep the audience entertained with his ventriloquist&apos;s act (which includes a monkey) while the professor ha...

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Larry Semon works for Colonel Quack&apos;s medicine show. When the Colonel is kidnapped for no particular reason, Larry does a bunch of gags involving the Colonel&apos;s monkey, a railroad track several miles high and the Colonel&apos;s collection of mannequins.

Semon&apos;s short comedies were very popular, despite their ever-expanding budgets that made them flops. Even today, if you see them in a show, you will hear a lot of laughter from the small children. More mature audiences, however, like a little story and character continuity in their comedy and Semon never offered much of that. Instead we have railroad tracks that lead to cliffs several thousand feet above a town and the unexplained activities of his boss. Yes, there are some spectacular gags, including the shot as Larry clings to the cliff and later swings to and from collapsing towers hundreds of feet in the air.

Yet, while they provide spectacular gags, the cartoon world that Semon lives in never captures me, the way that better cartoonists&apos; did. Too bad.

Larry Semon works for Colonel Quack's medicine show. When the Colonel is kidnapped for no particular reason, Larry does a bunch of gags involving the Colonel's monkey, a railroad track several miles high and the Colonel's collection of mannequins.

Semon's short comedies were very popular, despite their ever-expanding budgets that made them flops. Even today, if you see them in a show, you will hear a lot of laughter from the small children. More mature audiences, however, like a little story and character continuity in their comedy and Semon never offered much of that. Instead we have railroad tracks that lead to cliffs several thousand feet above a town and the unexplained activities of his boss. Yes, there are some spectacular gags, including the shot as Larry clings to the cliff and later swings to and from collapsing towers hundreds of feet in the air.

Yet, while they provide spectacular gags, the cartoon world that Semon lives in never captures me, the way that better cartoonists' did. Too bad.

A young man is part of a traveling medicine show owned by an elderly "professor" and his beautiful daughter. His job is to keep the audience entertained with his ventriloquist's act (which includes a monkey) while the professor hawks his patent medicines. One day the show's receipts are stolen by a gang of thieves, and in order to impress the professor's daughter, the young sets out to catch the crooks and retrieve the money.

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