A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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	Marion Byron (left) and Anita Garvin. Photograph: courtesy Edition Filmmuseum.

Cast: Anita Garvin [Anita], Marion Byron [Marion], Max Davidson [Max, the restaurant owner], Edgar Kennedy [the train conductor]; Charlie Hall [the cook], Frank Alexander [the rotund diner]

Hal Roach Studios, Incorporated, production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation [A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture]. / Produced by Hal Roach. From a screen story by Leo McCarey. Supervised (production supervision) by Leo McCarey. Photographed (cinematography) by George Stevens. Film editor, Richard Currier (Richard C. Currier). Presented by Hal Roach. / Premiered 8 December 1928. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The incomplete, surviving footage was reconstructed by Filmmuseum München under the supervision of Stefan Drössler in 2010.

Comedy.

Survival status: Prints exist in the film holdings of CCA [incomplete 35mm duplicate negative]; in the Filmmuseum München film archive [incomplete 35mm duplicate restoration negative, incomplete 35mm restoration positive]; and in the private film collection of Bruce Lawton [incomplete 16mm reduction positive].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Animals: Dogs - Hitchhiking - Restaurants: Cooks, Waitresses - Transportation: Trains: Conductors

Listing updated: 4 September 2017.

References: Film credits, film viewing : Website-IMDb.

Home video: DVD.