He's In Again
About He's In Again
A restaurant advertises girls direct from Paris, Texas, and a boxing bout. A tramp modeled on Chaplin, played by Billy West, slips past the bouncer. The head waiter, Oliver Hardy, seats him, and he cannot pay. The manager then offers him five dollars to fight as Battling Gink. His opponent is Leo White. West knocks him out, wins the purse, and knocks him out again when White will not leave a young woman alone.
Cast & crew
More about He's In Again
Charles Parrott, later called Charley Chase, directed and also plays the piano player, billed as Syncopated Sam Snuffer. Louis Burstein's King Bee company made the two-reeler. When King Bee failed, Milton Cohen's Bull's Eye bought the film and issued it as that company's first Billy West release. Ethelyn Gibson plays the young woman and Budd Ross a drunk.
Themes
Making
King Bee was out of money by late 1918. Cohen took He's In Again off its hands and put it out as a Bull's Eye comedy.
Notes
- West spent this series imitating Charlie Chaplin.
- Hardy is billed as Babe Hardy, as the head waiter.
- Leo White is the prizefighter.
- A Library of Congress copyright description has the proprietor hire West first as a dancer and then as a substitute fighter.
- Exhibitors Herald mentioned the Bull's Eye release on 7 June 1919.
Scenes
- The floor-show card reads Girls Direct from Paris, Texas.
- West, fighting as Battling Gink, knocks Leo White out twice.
Influenced by
- Charlie Chaplin tramp comedies
