The Gown Shop

4.0
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Run time: 15 min
  • Premiere: 1923. August 13.

Here we have 'The Gown Shop', very much in Semon's usual style but with fewer laughs than usual. Semon plays his default character, a grotesque hard-working incompetent. (I'm going to be using the word 'grotesque' a lot in this particular review.) This time round, he blunders into a boutique. After causing some damage he can't pay for, Larry is put to work as a general dogsbody. Mayhem ensues.

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Larry Semon

Larry, a salesman

Oliver Hardy

Store manager

Directing

Larry Semon

Director

Directing

Larry Semon

Director