Feed 'em and Weep
About Feed 'em and Weep
Max Davidson runs a diner beside a railroad stop and gets a telegram: a hundred delegates will arrive by train and want dinner. Agency waitresses Anita Garvin and Marion Byron are dropped on a country road ten miles from the station and try to flag another ride. When the train does stop, the passengers pack the diner and all want to be fed at once.
Cast & crew
More about Feed 'em and Weep
Hal Roach produced the All-Stars two-reeler, production number S-14, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer released it on December 8, 1928. Fred L. Guiol directed. Leo McCarey wrote the story and supervised. George Stevens photographed it, Richard C. Currier edited it, and H. M. Walker wrote the titles. The company shot from July 12 to July 24, 1928, with retakes on August 2. It was copyrighted on July 1, 1929. In Germany it was called Kellnern bis zum Unfallen.
Themes
Look
George Stevens photographed the July 1928 shoot, including the road where the waitresses try to hitch a ride and the station diner.
Preservation
Filmmuseum München reconstructed the incomplete footage in 2010 under Stefan Drössler. Silent Era also lists incomplete prints at CCA and in Bruce Lawton's collection.
Notes
- Edgar Kennedy plays the train conductor, Charlie Hall the cook, and Frank Alexander a heavy diner.
- Symona Boniface is the woman in the car who leaves Anita and Marion on the road.
- What survives is fragmentary. The opening scene is missing, and a German DVD mixes the remaining shots with stills and new title cards.
Scenes
- Anita and Marion are left on a country road ten miles from the diner.
- The train stops and the delegates fill every seat.
Also available
- Internet Archive (feed-em-and-weep_1928)
