Product Review

Blundering druggist Elmer Prettywillie (W. C. Fields) suffers a catastrophic day at his store until the scheming "president" of a real estate company makes him an offer he can't refuse. This entertaining silent film includes a concoction of silly skits, and features a trashy picnic on an elegant estate lawn that Prettywillie thought was a public park. Louise Brooks plays a radiant drug store "counter attraction" who also attracts the schemer's eye. The moral of the story, according to Prettywille, is "a bird in the hand is a hard pill to swallow. In a word, never give a sucker an even break -- it's the old army game." A similar film, It's a Gift, starring W.C. Fields, was released in 1934