This is the plot for this 'Short Subject': Windy Riley is on a non-stop automobile race from New York to San Francisco when he gets mixed up and winds up in Hollywood. Betty Grey is a movie star that happens to be getting a rash of bad publicity. Windy's car runs into the car of a movie executive. In order to work off the damage, the executive sends him to the Publicity Director of his studio. Naturally, Windy thinks of himself as a publicity expert rather than the errand boy he is supposed to be. With a big picture coming out, the studio to avoid any inadvertent publicity for Miss Grey, but Windy takes it upon himself to put her in all the papers, - in the worst way.
For certain, this was not a good film for the beautiful Louise Brooks, but I think its a mistake to pan this as a bad film. 'Fatty' Arbuckle was making a short subject film as he and Buster Keaton were making them just 12 years earlier. This is very typical of their previous efforts. You should easily picture, Buster Keaton at the wheel of the car when he looks at the sign and makes the wrong turn to Hollywood. And you can imagine the look of that deadpan face when he gets blamed for the accident. And you can just see Buster seeing that lone freight card in the railroad yard and then later the look he would have had when he noted the thousands of cars surrounding it. And that would be typical Buster that would get blasted by the steam from the locomotive.
No, this is not a bad film. It is quite enjoyable if you watch it in the context of the period of when it was made!!!
