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.

Hugh Herbert
as Frederick Healy

Anita Louise
as Mary Wilson

Alan Mowbray
as Silas Cribbs

Buster Keaton
as William Dalton

Joyce Compton
as Hazel Dalton

Richard Cromwell
as Edward Middleton

Billy Gilbert
as Master of Ceremonies

Margaret Hamilton
as Mrs. Wilson

Diane Fisher
as Julia Middleton

Charles Judels
as Pie Vendor