The Handy Man
About The Handy Man
A thin handyman at a country estate courts the heavy cook. An overseer joins the pursuit after he sees a newspaper item about a large inheritance waiting for her. The cook is the lost wife of a stranger who has been hanging around the place. The handyman learns that in time to get out of the marriage.
Cast & crew
More about The Handy Man
Broncho Billy Anderson produced. Robert P. Kerr directed. Bob Munson wrote it. Metro distributed the two-reeler. A Library of Congress copyright description calls the cook 250 pounds, the handyman 125, and the inheritance $100,000.
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Irving G. Ries photographed the short.
Notes
- Stan Laurel plays the handyman. Wikipedia credits Merta Sterling as the cook.
- Otto Fries plays the overseer. Harry Mann plays the stranger. Babe London is in the cast. Mathilde Comont is also billed.
- Motion Picture World of March 24, 1923 summarized the plot in two sentences.
- An alternate title is The Dumbell.
- A Commons transfer runs about 18 and a half minutes.
Scenes
- The overseer elbows the handyman aside once he reads about the cook's inheritance.
- The stranger turns out to be the cook's husband, and the new marriage comes apart.
