The Wrong Miss Wright

One of 2 Charley Chase shorts directed by comedy veteran Charles Lamont, THE WRONG MISS WRIGHT finds Charley in a dilemma - he finds true love on a boat from China to the US, but has only come back to the States due to an arranged marriage. Diggles, his manservant, persuades Charley to act crazy in order to get out of the arrangement - then he can marry his shipboard romance. Unbeknownst to Charley, his shipboard romance is actually the girl he is supposed to marry! The fun begins when Charley arrives at the home of his arranged intended!! Having never seen the original short, this remake is quite funny. As usual, stock player Bud Jamison stands out in his role as manservant Diggles.

This is one of a small number of Charley Chase films he made with Columbia Studios instead of the old familiar Hal Roach Studios. Unfortunately, instead of creating something new and different for Columbia, this is a remake of an earlier Chase film, CRAZY LIKE A FOX. Both films have the identical plot--he and a girl he doesn't know are supposed to get married and Charley wants to scare her and her parents out of the marriage by acting crazy. And, in both, before he puts on the crazy act, he actually met his bride to be and fell for her--not knowing this was his fiancée. A rather contrived and hard to believe plot even for a comedy short! Now considering that this film offers no improvement over the original AND it is about as subtle as a Three Stooges film, I hardly could recommend it. My advice? See CRAZY LIKE A FOX and be done with it.