Joe Simberg

Larry Semon produces his take on a typical Keystone farce, the flirting-in-the-park routine, where pretty Florence Curtis is pursued by four typical Keystone types: the wealthy geezer, the mustachioed Italian, the derby-wearing tough and, of course, the big-footed cop.... and here comes Larry, if not to save the day, at least to make us laugh. (imdb)

Larry Semon is in the kitchen preparing food for a high society musical evening.

Golf, we discover in this early Semon short, is a game that is played by striking a croquet ball with a hockey stick and seeing how many times it can hit Larry Semon. (imdb)

In the knockabout one-reeler set in a dance studio, three suitors compete for the girl. James Aubrey, the actor playing the father's preferred suitor, may look like a Chaplin imitator, but he came by those skills honorably. Nevertheless it's Alice Mann, with her wacky headdress and knowing glance, who steals the show. Suffice it to say that many vases are broken and pants ripped before she escapes out the window with the handsomest of the beaus.

A farce in which a man comes home drunk, and locks himself in to avoid his angry wife. He then starts hallucinating, and a thief also tries to break in.

"Risks and Roughnecks" is an early Larry Semon effort with outrageously funny acrobatics as takes care of business in a big brawl.