The Charley Chase comedies were the top moneymaking films from the Hal Roach studios by 1925 and this comedy shows why. Chase is in fine form as the dapper and energetic young man who is mistakenly invited to the boss's home for dinner after a coworker has spiked his milk with sleeping tablets. Chase had developed a strong friendship with his young director, the future Oscar-winner Leo McCarey, and they collaborated as creative equals on dozens of Chase shorts. It was Chase who worked out the elaborate gag in the opening scene involving an illegally parked car, a policeman, and Chase's efforts to save the girl from a ticket. "It was really Chase who did most of the directing," McCarey shared in an interview years later. "Whatever success I have had or may have, I owe this to his help because he taught me all I know."

By Sean Axmaker