Westward Ho-Hum

Edgar has bought a restaurant, sight unseen, in what turns out to be a ghost town. He takes wife Sally & brother-in-law Jack Rice to inspect their new investment .... and run into a couple of bank robbers hiding out where no one but an idiot would go.

There's a long sequence in the middle, shot wild and with sound effects added that to the modern eye looks pretty much like silent comed technique, except, of course, for the undercranking that would have added a great deal of liveliness to the action. Still, it's a good chance to see Edgar in his primal medium; he had been a comic with Sennett's Keystone three decades earlier.

Sally Payne was one of the three or four actresses who played Edgar's wife at various times in his COMMON MAN series for RKO from 1933-1948. She appeared in half a dozen of them, but retired from the screen in 1943 to raise a family.