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Not Wanted (1924)
Directed by Billy West, Robert P. Kerr
Overview
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.