Vacation Waves (1928) User Reviews

Oh, for a life on the sea -- alone!

[boblipton · 6/10 · 24 February 2003]

Poor, pompous Edward Everett Horton! He spends fifty weeks a year working and he wants to spend his vacation fishing on the sea, but he has to bring his wife and child along.

Although it took the coming of sound pictures to make Horton an unforgettable star, he's damned good in this silent venture with his famous triple take and neurotic uncertainties. A little-known treat for fans of silent comedies.

Passable silent 2 reeler.

[Mozjoukine · 10 March 2021]

Interesting to see a younger Horton, before his dithering character had crystalized. This one is a short produced by Harold Lloyd whose HOT WATER the mother in law character and open top bus scenes recall.

Horton's plans for a fishing holiday with fetching wife Thompson are undermined when her mother and bratty kid brother show up - predictable falling in the water gags follow.

The piece is well enough paced but the gags are too familiar. Occasional amusement from items like a title about the boat where all the holes are in the bottom where people won't see them.