The New Half Back

The summary is NOT an exaggeration. After all, Harry Gribbon (age 44) stars as a prospective college football player...and the guy who sits next to him looks even older...and he's on the team, too! I cannot understand why they chose a couple old guys to play ball players. Had they been REALLY old it might have worked because it would have been so ridiculous...but instead it's just bizarre.

Gribbon plays a guy whose father was a star football player. But he's not interested in anything but eating desserts and watching birds. So, the professor's daughter (Marjorie Beebe) decides to vamp him and convince him to join the team. Can this guy possibly have what it takes to be a football star?

So is it any good? Well, it's decent and entertaining but it's really NOT all that funny. Andy Clyde was enjoyable as the Professor but otherwise the film was just okay.

By the way, some of the footage for the football game was obviously originally silent, as the speed of silent and sound films as they are projected are different...and playing silent films at sound speed makes for characters which move VERY fast.