Losing Weight (1916)

• 81%
• 1916
• Comedy
• Larry Semon
• Hughie Mack
• Eddie Dunn
• Jewell Hunt

Excess flesh is a hindrance to a businessman, at least Hughey finds it so. Hughey has an appointment to close a million dollar deal, but finds himself delayed on every hand by his great bulk. He gets stuck in the doorway, is unable to get into a taxicab, breaks down a telephone booth, and gets to the office just in time to be too late. Then he sees Professor Reducer's advertisement and determines to lose weight. The professor puts him through a strenuous course of exercises and even outside the gymnasium, he keeps in trim by such little stunts as juggling safes, etc. After a few weeks of this he hops on the scales, confident of seeing a wonderful improvement, but falls back in a dead faint at the evidence of the merciless dial, a gain of 150 pounds. Hughey now resumes his life of ease, with beefsteaks galore and plenty of potatoes and lager beer on the side, and strange as it may seem, he is losing weight on the "diet.