Great While It Lasted (1915)

• 70%
• 1915
• Comedy
• Hal Roach
• Harold Lloyd
• Gene Marsh
• Harry 'Snub' Pollard

Byron Beanskin and Hugo Snubb, on the brink of despair, are threatened to put one foot over when they receive a laundry and rent bill for $20.02. Hugo Snubb having broken his last nickel for lolly-pops, they ache for eats. When lo, glad tidings, Byron is rich; someone has died that he might live. With a new shroud, plenty of money, and a "vally" in the person of Hugo Snubb, and with cards printed to announce his importance, thusly: "Byron Beanskin. Worth $20,000,000.36," he sallies forth to flock with the queens and becomes a social lion. At a garden party, a would-be pretender to Beanskin's social position, slits his trousers, forcing him to hie to a near-by body of water, where he must stand until a barrel is procured that he might proceed to home, and bad news. He isn't an heir, and as he finds out from the treatment accorded him by his landlady, none of the glory of riches attaches to him.