Less than fifty of the more than three hundred comedies that Eddie Lyons and Lee Moran made are known to survive. One that was thought lost and then turned up when an old movie theater shut down in Alfreton, in England was this film.
Eddie is married to pretty Edith Roberts and they have to fire the maid. With chicken feet going at $1 each -- remember, this is 1917 -- they can't afford to pay her wages. Lee, her brother, is coming to visit, and he has an enormous appetite. The good news is that he is feeling unwell and is off his feed. The bad news is that even so, he eats more than a platoon in training in a week.
That's the set-up and the entirety of the movie, watching Moran eat enormous amounts of food and Lyons trying to come up with the money to pay for it. It's not much of a comedy, but the comedy pair were, as noted above, in more than 300 short movies over seven years of their screen partnership. If you went to the movies once or twice a week, they were a familiar, welcome act, and you smiled some at this week's hijinks and knew there would be more next week.
There is some technical interest in the fact that the titles in this movie have been changed to reflect that this was the English release. While prices were marked in dollars in the pictures, the titles refer to shillings; likewise, in the American release, Moran was Lyons' "country cousin". In the British, he is his brother-in-law.