Wandering Willies
About Wandering Willies
Percy Nudge and Dusty Duncan, played by Billy Bevan and Andy Clyde, are hoboes out of jail and hungry. They pretend to be a policeman and a baby, the diners most likely to be fed for nothing. That fails, so they dress up as a cow and go to the food itself. A later chase puts them in front of a new edition of Mack Sennett's Keystone Kops.
Cast & crew
More about Wandering Willies
Del Lord directed. Mack Sennett produced. Hap Depew photographed it. William Hornbeck edited. Wikidata dates the release March 28, 1926, and times it at 20 minutes. Ruth Hiatt, Kewpie Morgan, Bobby Dunn, and Dave Morris are billed. Ruth Taylor is on the Wikidata cast. The catalog calls Bevan Australian-born and Clyde a Scotsman, and notes that Lord had been a Keystone Kop.
Themes
Making
Sennett produced it, and the finish brings back a version of his old cop chase.
Look
Hap Depew shot the hobo gags and the cop chase.
Notes
- The catalog glosses the hoboes' line as playing hooky from the hoosegow.
- Lord later directed many Three Stooges shorts. That later career is in the catalog note, not in this film.
Scenes
- Bevan and Clyde sit down as a policeman and a baby.
- They try the same trick dressed as a cow.
- The Kops take up the chase.
Also available
- Internet Archive (Wandering_Willies)
