TOO MUCH SPEED (1927) Bobby Ray

[Richard M Roberts]

This is neither Wallace Reid nor Neely Edwards, as the Youtube comments indicate (I have an original Show-at-Home print of IN FOR LIFE and this ain't it).

What it is, is a retitled toy film clip of a Bobby Ray Rayart short from 1926-27, not sure yet which one, but that would be more interesting to we mafians than a Wallace Reid clip anyway, so here it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F45X5TcQ_0k

RICHARD M ROBERTS

[Eric Cohen]

I guess matching plot summaries doesn’t always work too well for silent shorts.
So this is an example of Rayart cost-cutting by simply remaking a recently released Universal short?

[Richard M Roberts]

No, it's just a standard comedy trope that was reused endlessly by all the comedy companies. Speeding and tickets was rampant in silent comedy.

RICHARD M ROBERTS