Every way as good as any of the Hal Roach Charley Chase shorts, TEACHER'S PEST features Charley as a school teacher who wants to bring some "Edumacation" to the people of a hillbilly town. Charley is shot at, given a bed to sleep in that he must share with a mother pig and her piglets and finally gets to teach (!?) the gun crazy yokels. Turns out that an evil land baron wants to buy the town cause it is sitting on a rich oil reserve. The bad guy is played by perennial Columbia second banana Vernon Dent. You will also see Chester Conklin. The classroom scene alone is worth seeing this classic. When Charley asks a student what 3 minus 1 is, the student looks out the window and sees three hillbilly's sitting on a fence. He shoots one dead and proudly says "Two!". Charley plays dual roles at one point in the story and with a fake beard, shows the townspeople that Vernon is a crook. Recommended.
Review of Teacher's Pest
