As well as "The Man from Painted Post" (1917), Victor Fleming also photographed Douglas Fairbanks's "The Habit of Happiness" (1916). Originally planned as a 5-reel feature, the movie was actually released with a running time at under 40 minutes. It's an agreeable entry, directed by Allan Dwan, in which it seems at first that Doug has met his match in dyspeptic millionaire George Fawcett, but guess who wins out in the end? Anita Loos wrote some witty title cards.
Grapevine have this one in a rather dupey print doubled with a better copy of the cleverly scripted Manhattan Madness (1916) which doubtless went down a whole lot better with audiences at the time of its release. We more sophisticated movie watchers will notice that in this one, Doug is NOT doing his own stunts. Mind you, he had a real good excuse. He was in hospital after an accident on the set in which he collided with an extra who discharged a pistol in his face. A blank, of course, but it had enough powder in it to burn Doug's skin, and put him in hospital for three weeks. The movie was also doubtless planned to clock in at twice the length of its present 32 minutes.
Nonetheless, it's certainly entertaining and even witty (at least at the beginning), although few present-day fans will be taken in by the obvious artifice of its main plot. However, any film with the lovely Jewel Carmen is a good movie I my opinion, and here, photographed by Victor Fleming, no less, she's at her glorious best!
Grapevine have this one in a rather dupey print doubled with a better copy of the cleverly scripted Manhattan Madness (1916) which doubtless went down a whole lot better with audiences at the time of its release. We more sophisticated movie watchers will notice that in this one, Doug is NOT doing his own stunts. Mind you, he had a real good excuse. He was in hospital after an accident on the set in which he collided with an extra who discharged a pistol in his face. A blank, of course, but it had enough powder in it to burn Doug's skin, and put him in hospital for three weeks. The movie was also doubtless planned to clock in at twice the length of its present 32 minutes.
Nonetheless, it's certainly entertaining and even witty (at least at the beginning), although few present-day fans will be taken in by the obvious artifice of its main plot. However, any film with the lovely Jewel Carmen is a good movie I my opinion, and here, photographed by Victor Fleming, no less, she's at her glorious best!