Feet of Mud
About Feet of Mud
Harry Holdem is sent into a college football game after a player is hurt, hides the ball, and scores. Nina March's father then tells him to clean up the street before he can marry her, and the city job is sweeping streets, shown in Times Square and then Chinatown. During a tong fight he hides in an opium den with Nina, her father, her rival Donald, and his own mother. He and Nina drop through a trap door onto her father, who takes his hand.
Cast & crew
More about Feet of Mud
Mack Sennett produced the comedy, and Harry Edwards directed it. It opened on December 7, 1924. The title parodies Cecil B. DeMille's Feet of Clay, released a few months earlier, and the plots do not match. A shortened reissue in the Comedy Capers series was called The Football Hero.
Themes
Preservation
A print is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- Natalie Kingston plays Nina March, Yorke Sherwood her father Phillip March, and Malcolm Waite the rival Donald Duffield.
- Florence Lee plays Harry's mother, Vernon Dent the coach, and Leo Sulky a Chinatown huckster.
- On the streetcar Harry accidentally pulls the conductor's trousers down.
- The Harry Langdon fan club took its name from this short.
Scenes
- Harry pulls the cushions out of his pants, tucks the football away, and runs for a touchdown.
- Banging his broom on a dustbin, he is mistaken for a tong gong.
- Nina is hidden in a vase, and she and Harry slide down a chute onto her father.
Influenced by
- Cecil B. DeMille's Feet of Clay (1924)
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons
