Weber & Fields were big vaudeville stars in their day. But they don't seem to work that well in silent film, this crude short being an example. The plot, if you could call it that, concerns the daily activities of Mike & Meyer, the owners of a general store. They get in a fight with their wives and each other, and get robbed at the end. The ending also appears very eerie to me for some reason; the shots of the robbers coming in, taking the money from the register, and then toasting each other all happen in about three seconds. You can't really tell what's happening at first, and then it's all over. Very strange. Perhaps the surviving print had some damage to it at the end. Anyway, this is a very mediocre film, poorly made and unfunny.
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