In the early 1930s, Tom Howard made a couple dozen comedy shorts. It seems he'd made a name for himself in Vaudeville but his movie career never went much further than the shorts. Most of his comedies that I've seen are, to put it mildly, are bizarre...but funny. "The Wrong Bottle" is, in contrast, a more mundane sort of story...with a plot reminiscent of the Edgar Kennedy domestic shorts of the 1930s-40s in which Edgar had to contend with freeloading in-laws living with him.
In "The Wrong Bottle", Tom is annoyed since his freeloading brother-in-law lives with them and he's quite thoughtless. After some arguing, the brother-in-law informs Tom that his insurance policy has lapsed....and soon after this Tom thinks he's accidentally drank poison. However, when he heads to the store to buy some antidote, he's frustrated by a dopey druggist and other store employees....and there's more craziness after this.
This is a funny short...but unusual as well. The whole dying aspect is actually funny...believe it or not.
In "The Wrong Bottle", Tom is annoyed since his freeloading brother-in-law lives with them and he's quite thoughtless. After some arguing, the brother-in-law informs Tom that his insurance policy has lapsed....and soon after this Tom thinks he's accidentally drank poison. However, when he heads to the store to buy some antidote, he's frustrated by a dopey druggist and other store employees....and there's more craziness after this.
This is a funny short...but unusual as well. The whole dying aspect is actually funny...believe it or not.
