Hoboken to Hollywood

A typical late silent Sennet programmer starring Billy Bevan and Vernon Dent, each moving to California with his wife and finding their greatest obstacles in their ways to be each other.

Bevan was one of the now-forgotten silent screen comedians with a large mustache and no hesitation in doing something stupid, like offering his rear to an angry bull, or standing around while an enraged Vernon Dent -- who went to Columbia and the Three Stooges -- swings an axe. Australia seems to have produced a bumper crop of them and many were exported to Hollywood. Bevan's individual shtick seems to have been a hearty manner and nervous laugh in the face of troubles.

Bevan worked steadily up until the 1950s and was still listed in the credits when he retired, unlike some. Although he would not be on anyone's Top Comics list until you got fairly far down, he was pretty good nonetheless. Although he never quite made the grade as a lead comic, he is in a number of good comedies paired off with Andy Clyde (CIRCUS TODAY, SUPER-HOOPER-DYNE LIZZIES).

And this one too. Del Lord knew how to direct a Sennett comedy -- he had been one of the original Keystone Kops, and he, too went to Columbia and the Three Stooges in the sound era. In the meantime, he was still with a prosperous Sennett, producing a solid comedy.