Victorian melodrama is sent up in this spoof of the old production "The Drunkard; or, The Fallen Saved." Dastardly villain Silas Cribbs schemes to get his lusty clutches on the virtuous heroine by driving her naïve husband to alcoholic ruin. Luckily, a temperance lecturer is on hand to set things straight, as is Buster Keaton as William Dalton, the drunkard's friend.

• DirectorEdward F. Cline
• Release11 October 1940
• Genre
  Comedy / Romance
• Duration1h 6m
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• Rate
  

  5.1
  10 reviews
• Productions

  RKO Radio Pictures, Franklin-Blank Productions