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Inside Maddie asks Marcie to stay for a party. Frank is there and drops Harry's wallet. Marcie puts on one of Maddie's gowns. Frank consoles her just as Harry comes in. Marcie is actually just stealing Harry's wallet back and tells him to go as soon as she gets it. Harry climbs to the roof. He sees
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Harry sits under a telegraph pole to eat his packed lunch - a sandwich. A worker above accidentally drops a package of chewing tobacco into the sandwich just before Harry starts to eat. Harry chews uncomfortably before spotting his mistake. He feels ill and sees double. He crawls into the middle of
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A different woman tries to get in and the conductor says she is at the wrong berth. Harry drops his belongings into the central aisle and goes down to pick them up. He does not spot the woman moving the steps to the next berth so when he goes back up he is in the wrong berth. She pushes him out and
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Frank realises the wallet has gone and demands Marcie gives it back. Dangerous Dan comes in with two bombs. He throws one at Frank who ducks. It goes out of the window into the pool and blows Harry onto the balcony. Dan and Frank are fighting inside. Harry threatens them with the second bomb, they
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Marcie waits in the main carriage. She is reading a letter from Uncle Bill saying he can give Harry a job if she brings $ 500. Maddie sits to the side with loudmouth Frank who spots Marcie as she counts her money to pay Uncle Bill. Harry pushes passed the guard to sit with Marcie and a few seconds
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Lacking the $ 500, Harry returns to his old job as a policeman on the beat. The chief is on the other side of the road. Harry echoes his stiff walk. He waves but the Chief does not wave back. The Chief puts out his hand as if to shake before crossing the road but walks passed Harry to two women
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he kicks the guy opposite. The guard directs him to the correct berth and he checks below that his wife is there. He goes to get some water and trips over a foot. The guard shows him back. He goes to the far end of the carriage and opens the door: a fierce wind blows in, disturbing everyone.
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A steam train travels through the night. Onboard in a sleeping carriage are Mr and Mrs Newlywed: Harry and Marcie, in separate bunks. Marcie has rags tied in her hair to make curls. Harry is in the upper bunk.
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step back and fall off the balcony. Marcie show she has got the wallet back but then the second bomb goes off. They are blown across the sky and land on the telegraph pole above the Chief of Police.
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for Maddie. Maddie steps outside and asks Harry to make the dog stop howling. He goes round the back and hides beside the pool. Dangerous Dan appears and shines a torch across the pool.
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later the sheriff sits down handcuffed to Dangerous Dan McGrew. Dan tries to outstare Harry. Dan's accomplice comes alongside the train, bobbing up and down on a
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the road and is almost run over. He appears to be vomiting off-screen but we then see he is drinking from a
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Last breakfast is called. The men all share a washroom and shave side by side. Harry is shaving with a
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Harry is on night shift and is scared of the noises, including owls and howling dogs.
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as she takes her gown off to go home - he fears the worst and falls into the pool.
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Keystone: The Life and Clowns of Mack Sennett by Simon Louvish
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is a 1924 silent black and white short American film starring
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Marcie through a window. She pulls the blind and he sees her
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Harry Edwards
Mack Sennett
Harry Langdon
Marceline Day
Silent
intertitles
Harry Langdon
Harry Edwards
Mack Sennett
straight razor
railway handcart
human shield
drinking fountain
seamstress
silhouette
Harry Langdon
Marceline Day
Frank J. Coleman
Madeline Hurlock
Eli Stanton
Dangerous Dan McGrew
Louise Carver
Leo Sulky
Tiny Ward
Yorke Sherwood
Kalla Pasha
Hayes E. Robertson
"Director Harry Edwards"
""The Luck o' the Foolish" (1924) starring Harry Langdon and Marceline Day | Public Domain Movies"

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