This amusing slapstick feature gets much of its effectiveness from using a situation that many of us find easy to relate to. It gets good mileage out of the setup, and it has some good gags. Portions of it have been lost, especially at the beginning, but Kino's recent release of Edison features contains a restored version that includes more than enough for the story to be entertaining.
The plot concerns an office worker who just can't get up on time to avoid being late for work. No doubt many viewers both then and now could relate to the kinds of desperate ideas that we sometimes use to trick ourselves into getting up in the morning when we don't really want to do so. This man's seemingly ingenious plan is to tie a rope around his foot, hang the other end of the rope out of the window, and have a friend come by in the morning to pull on it. The movie then follows the series of misadventures that ensues.
The pace builds pretty well, keeping the zanier predicaments for the last part. Most of the visual details work well also. Although it has little that was new or innovative, it does a solid job of telling an amusing and entertaining story.
