When Mack Sennett, big-game hunter, shows up to announce he only goes after big game, everyone is impressed. When he is scared up a tree by a pet bear -- you can see the collar -- Mabel Normand makes friends with it and takes it home to friends and family.
Mack Sennett's Biograph comedies are not as silly as his Keystone efforts, but this one comes close, with Mack wearing a very silly mustache. The real pleasure in this effort is looking at the tame bear and how much fun Mabel has with it. It's not a patch on the wild sort off comedy that they would turn out later, but there is a goodly amount of fun in this early effort.
Mack Sennett's Biograph comedies are not as silly as his Keystone efforts, but this one comes close, with Mack wearing a very silly mustache. The real pleasure in this effort is looking at the tame bear and how much fun Mabel has with it. It's not a patch on the wild sort off comedy that they would turn out later, but there is a goodly amount of fun in this early effort.