So's Your Old Man
About So's Your Old Man
Sam Bisbee, a small-town glazier, keeps inventing schemes that annoy his wife. He takes an unbreakable windshield to an automobile convention. Someone switches the car. A brick goes through the glass. On the train home he thinks a young woman is about to jump and pulls her back. She is Princess Lescaboura. The friendship that follows makes the Bisbees socially presentable.
Cast & crew
More about So's Your Old Man
Gregory La Cava directed. The script comes from Julian Street's story "Mr. Bisbee's Princess." George Webber photographed it. Paramount released it on October 25, 1926. Wikipedia gives 67 minutes. W. C. Fields plays Sam Bisbee. Paramount remade it as a talkie in 1934, You're Telling Me!, again with Fields.
Themes
Look
George Webber photographed the convention, including the brick through the switched windshield.
Notes
- The demonstration fails because the test car is switched, not because the glass formula fails.
- The woman on the train is Princess Lescaboura, not a passenger in trouble.
- The 1934 remake keeps Fields and changes the title to You're Telling Me!
Scenes
- A brick smashes the windshield after the cars are switched.
- Bisbee stops the princess on the train and thinks he has prevented a jump.
Influenced by
- Julian Street's story Mr. Bisbee's Princess
Influenced
- You're Telling Me! (1934)
