The story involves the Rascals performing in a make-believe movie theater where they imitate Charles Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, Douglas Fairbanks, William S. Hart, Uncle Tom and the security guard character played by 'Gilbert, Dick'. The Chaplin imitation includes a gag repeated from Shoulder Arms (1918) wherein The Little Tramp disguises himself as a tree. The Fairbanks imitation (courtesy of Mickey Daniels) specifically refers to The Three Musketeers (1921). The Lloyd imitation borrows from Grandma's Boy (1922).
As in other early Hal Roach Rascals shorts, the Farina character is a girl.
The make-believe movie theater sports a real movie posters, including one for Chaplin's The Idle Class (1921).
This is Joe Cobb first time in an Our Gang comedy.
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