Thursday, November 29, 2018

Keystone Hotel (1935)

Cross-eyed Count Drewa Blanc (Ben Turpin) arrives at the Keystone Hotel to judge a beauty contest. Everyone (the law, the authorities and gangsters) seem to have wives in the contest who try and lean on the Count to influence his decision...

Meanwhile various slapstick nonsense takes place elsewhere in the hotel. Including a number of gags involving a vibrating exercise machine...

It is corny but highly enjoyable. It celebrated Keystone silent comedies and included many of the stars of those films such as Chester Conklin and Hank Mann. It all ends in an epic custard pie fight and the Keystone cops turn up, what more could anyone want?!