This is one of several short comedies that Ben Turpin made for the Weiss Brothers towards the end of the silent era. Considering the film's age, it's still in surprisingly good shape and was released along with several other Weiss Brothers shorts on a DVD entitled "Weiss-O-Rama".
In WHY BABIES LEAVE HOME, Ben plays dual roles--the elderly father and the runaway boy now grown. This missing boy gets into a variety of problems (such as helping to actually evict his own parents, chasing a dancing pancake and in the process rescuing a girl and teaching a rich jerk a lesson). Unfortunately, none are all that interesting. While I adore silent comedies, this one is pretty average and isn't one I'd rush out to see again. There's nothing particularly bad about it--just nothing all that great either. A purely average film with not a lot to recommend it one way or the other.
In WHY BABIES LEAVE HOME, Ben plays dual roles--the elderly father and the runaway boy now grown. This missing boy gets into a variety of problems (such as helping to actually evict his own parents, chasing a dancing pancake and in the process rescuing a girl and teaching a rich jerk a lesson). Unfortunately, none are all that interesting. While I adore silent comedies, this one is pretty average and isn't one I'd rush out to see again. There's nothing particularly bad about it--just nothing all that great either. A purely average film with not a lot to recommend it one way or the other.
