Hot Water
“Married life is like dandruff – it falls heavily upon your shoulders – you get a lot of free advice about it – but up to date nothing has been found to cure it.”
About Hot Water
Hubby is running a friend to a wedding and swears he will never give up being single for a pair of soft-boiled eyes. He collides with Wifey and changes his mind. Married, he wins a live turkey in a raffle and tries to get it home on a crowded streetcar. He then takes the in-laws out in a new Butterfly Six, and the ride ends with the car wrecked. In the last stretch he chloroforms his mother-in-law by accident, decides he has killed her, and later takes her sleepwalking for a ghost.
Cast & crew
More about Hot Water
Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor directed. Taylor wrote it. Harold Lloyd produced it and plays Hubby. Jobyna Ralston plays Wifey. Josephine Crowell plays the mother-in-law. Charles Stevenson and Mickey McBan are billed. Pathé Exchange released it. A listing gives 59 minutes. A timed copy runs 60 minutes 6 seconds.
Themes
Making
Lloyd built the feature out of three domestic disasters instead of one chase. The last one turns on chloroform and a sleepwalker.
Preservation
A print survives.
Notes
- Josephine Crowell plays the mother-in-law.
- Charles Stevenson and Mickey McBan are billed with the household.
- A timed copy runs 60 minutes 6 seconds.
Scenes
- The live turkey comes loose on the streetcar.
- The Butterfly Six ride with the in-laws ends in a wreck.
- Hubby hides from the sleepwalking mother-in-law he thinks he killed.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Hot Water (1924).webm)
