The Plumber

House calls don't come much messier than the one answered by a plumber (Charles Murray) at the upstanding bourgeois home of the Felixes, where a bathroom gusher is making life very wet. The tradesman proceeds to get likewise, nipping into the family's hooch supply with disastrous results. Murray was a typical Mack Sennett star who'd entered the movies after spending his youth in vaudeville. Here he plays his usual character for the studio, hapless Hogan, who makes a reliable botch of every job he worked, plumbing most definitely included. - Dennis Harvey