if this is the "best" of the contemporary Fairbanks comedies I feel sorry for the other ones. The highlights are Fairbanks doing his physical schtick and a great flood sequence but otherwise the story of a man being beaten down mentally until he breaks has few laughs out of the snicker zone. Worst, the big happy wrap-up does not compensate for the Job-like suffering and "comic" torment. While it is true next to Sennett this seems tame in the brutal and mean-spirited department there is still hardly enough to warrant calling it a comedy in my view. It probably did a small public service showing "shrinks" as escaped lunatics though.