This silent farce, one of Fields's finest, presents a wonderfully acerbic vision of small-town America. Samuel Bisbee, inventor of unbreakable glass, has high hopes for success, but a misunderstanding shatters all his dreams. On the train home to Waukegus, after failing as miserably at suicide as he has in business, he encounters a European princess and discovers the differences—both positive and negative—an accidental acquaintance can make in a man's fortune. James Curtis writes in W. C. Fields: A Biography, “The character of Bisbee was tailor-made for Fields, timid and self-important and yet achingly vulnerable”—a type Fields would continue to develop in some of his most memorable films.—Juliet Clark