You're a star of silent short comedies and your first feature is a bomb. What do you you do? You cut eighty percent of it and leave the good parts. That's what happened here. Apparently his feature, PLAY SAFE wasn't a draw at the theaters, so they cut out almost all the explication and left in just enough to set up a marvellous sequence in which Monty Banks chases after a runaway train in order to rescue his sweetheart. Beautifully timed and shot on site, this has an immediacy and reality that helps make great thrill comedy.
