weezeralfalfa Review of We Faw Down

We Faw Down (1928)

Caught with their pants down, the boys try to mollify their wives' vengeance.

[7/10 · 12 October 2018]

L&H are bad boys, from their wives' perspectives, but not quite as bad as their wives are led to believe, from what they saw. The boys just wanted to play some poker with their friends at another house. But, telling their wives they were going to a live theater, they never made it to their poker date, because they were diverted in trying to help a young lady retrieve her hat from under a car. Although Ollie pushed the car forward to allow an easy retrieval, unfortunately, a street cleaner, spraying water, came along, and got the boys good and soaked.. The lady and her friend, also present, lived together in an apartment, and invited the boys up to their apartment, to dry their clothes, and possibly do some other things? The boys agreed, and soon were wearing the girls' bathrobes, while their outer clothes were hung to dry. The girls brought out some bottled beer, which the boys had trouble with. While the one girl went in the kitchen to prepare some food, the other wanted to flirt with Stan, who unfortunately wasn't in the mood. Nonetheless, he finally came around, and eventually knocked her on the floor. Then, he said he really didn't like her, and that she was too fat. So, she chased him around the table, until her boxer boyfriend happened by. When he saw what was going on, he grabbed a knife, and threatened the boys. But, quick -thinking Stan picked up the pie that the one girl was bringing in from the kitchen ,and smushed it in the bruiser's face. The boys ran to get their clothes and started to put them on as they climbed out the street window(this being the first floor). Unfortunately, their wives were coming down the street to check out the news report that the theater they were supposed to go to had burned down. When they saw the boys with their pants only half on, they hid behind a corner, so that the boys didn't see them. They also saw a woman stick her head out the window and tell them to run. Both pairs headed for the Hardy's house, the wives getting there first. When the boys showed up, the wives had very stern faces, like they didn't believe the boys' story. Hardy tried to diffuse their doubts, to no avail. The boys were asked to describe what they saw at the theater. They hem and hawed. Stan found a program behind the wives, and tried to communicate to Ollie what it said. Ollie put on a makeshift hula skirt to demonstrate. The wives were not impressed. Then, Stan showed Ollie the newspaper saying the theater had burned down. Ollie claimed they went to another theater, but the wives weren't impressed. Just then, one of the girls arrived with Ollie's vest, he had left behind(How did she know where to go??). This was the last straw. Ollie's wife exploded and got out their rifle, and chased the boys out, firing at them.