Comedy · United States of America · 1927 · 20m

The Lighter That Failed

Director

Cast

Charley Chase as Charley Edna Marion as Edna - Charley's Wife May Wallace as Charley's Mother-in-Law William Orlamond as Charley's Father-in-Law Eugene Pallette as Charley's Brother-in-Law Clara Guiol as Miss Pipps

Synopsis

For his birthday, Charley gets a cigarette lighter, but it won't light. He works on it with ill-suited tools amidst his family all giving advice. Finally, he unwisely fuels it with gasoline, which gets it lit, but soon, so is his house.

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