All Wet
About All Wet
Boarder Jimmie Jump gets a telegram: collect a large shipment at the station at 2:30 the next Wednesday. His Ford Model T sticks in mud, sinks in a lake, and is pulled apart by a tow truck. He is cited for illegal parking. The errand was the wrong day.
Cast & crew
More about All Wet
Leo McCarey directed this Charley Chase short. Hal Roach produced it. Wikidata names Pathé as the company. Wikipedia's plot names Chase's character Jimmie Jump. Release date on that page is November 23, 1924. Wikidata times it at 10 minutes. The Wikipedia duration line is 9 minutes and 31 seconds.
Themes
Music
Silent.
Preservation
A print circulates, including a Commons file timed near 9 and a half minutes.
Notes
- Janet Gaynor appears uncredited, in one of her earliest roles.
- Martha Sleeper and Gale Henry are also uncredited on the Wikipedia cast list. Olive Borden is in the catalog.
- William Gillespie plays the other driver. 'Tonnage' Martin Wolfkeil plays the garage mechanic. Jack Gavin plays the piano mover.
- The last joke is the calendar, not the wrecked car.
Scenes
- The Ford sinks in a lake.
- A tow truck tears the car apart.
- Jimmie learns the pickup was scheduled for a different day.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (All Wet (1924).webm)
