Series: Glenn Tryon Director: Fred L. Guiol Producer: Hal Roach Titles: H.M. Walker Photography: Editor: Stars: Glenn Tryon, Katherine Grant, Tyler Brooke Company: Pathé Exchange Released: 22 November 1925 Length: 2 reels Production No.: G-12 Filming dates: May 21 - June 9, 1925; retakes June 23, 1925 Rating: -/10

Papa, Be Good

From 4 minutes 11 seconds of footage available for review: The footage begins with TYLER BROOKE trying to put his key in the lock of a door but instead finds a large bug which resembles the keyhole. Every time he tries to put the key in, the bug moves until finally it crawls into the keyhole and he is able to open the door. Next scene shows him in bed and grabbing a rifle and shooting through the wall at a couple in their bed in the next room. Next day Tyler is walking merrily down the street and out into the road, where he is almost knocked down by a speeding GLENN TRYON in his open-top car. Tyler falls into a doorway of a beauty salon he meets a woman (MARJORIE WHITEIS) and is promptly attacked by her dog which tears up his pants. A motorcycle cop (LEO WILLIS) then chases the speeding Glenn Tryon down the street, rounding a corner and causing a man repairing a street lamp to drop the round bulb onto the driver's head. In a rather unusual pursuit, the driver manages to remove it, whilst steering adequately and discard it into the air, having it fall down onto the head of the pursuing cop. The cop stacks it and slides along the ground and into the side of the road with the bulb acting as a crash helmet. Meanwhile, Tyler finds himself back at the beauty salon where the woman hands him back his torn pants but again, the dog makes sure he isn't able to put them back on. The speeding driver enters the salon to find his woman and the discarded pants on the floor. Tyler takes an acrobatic jump out of the nearest window as the motorcycle cop comes into the store, armed with his truncheon. This is where the footage ends.

Favourite bit The sight of Leo Willis flying across the road in front of on-coming traffic is probably the funniest part of the limited footage I had for viewing.

Trivia • Copyrighted August 28, 1925. • After Tyler Brooke is successful in getting the key in the lock, he looks up and laughs. Who was he looking at, exactly? • The garage that the car and motorcycle cop drive into is called "Moon" - but notice how the sign is back to front, which means the negative was reversed.

	Glenn Tryon Speeding driver
	Katherine Grant [?]
	Tyler Brooke Debonair gentleman
	Marjorie Whiteis Woman with dog
	Leo Willis Motorcycle cop

Acknowledgements: Dave Glass (review copy) Steve Massa (identification of Marjorie Whiteis) This page was last updated on: 22 November 2023