Not Wanted
MovieTitle | Not Wanted |
User score | 3 |
Release date | Apr 1, 1924 |
Genre | Comedy |
Director | Billy West , Robert P. Kerr |
Production country | United States of America |
Production companies | Cumberland Productions |
Run time | 20 min. |
After five years as the best of the Chaplin imitators, Billy West struck out with his own comedy character, a middle-class man in a nice suit and a fedora -- but with the mustache. These movies involved him in cartoonish situations in which he executed some extended gags very nicely -- in this one he does the one in which the water pump only works when he's not ready for it and another in which he can't catch a fish with some expensive gear, while the boy next to him catches whoppers with a stick and a bent pin -- and gradually moved behind the camera.