Top cast:Fred Mace,Mabel Normand,Dell Henderson
Director:Émile Cohl
Genre:War
Region:Egypt
Year:2003
Storyline:My first and only vice." When told that the bank opens at 10, Sousè warns: "Well, if that""s all right, if I""m not here on time, just go right ahead without me.Con-man Gantry is telling risque jokes to a table of other similarly-employed gents.He is lustful, coarse, loud, forceful ambitious, motivated by an easy dollar, golden-tongued, and often drunk.However, with imaginative bravado in a fantasy scene, he tells his wife that he has aroused attractive women and brags:Seven years we""ve been married and not once have I done anything like that.It kinda makes you think different.I don""t want to be spending the rest of my life answering a factory whistle instead of a bugle call.I""ll be cooped up in a shipping room all day.I want to do something worthwhile.The Rev.excuses Jim""s ungrateful attitude as tiredness:Rev.:...after a good night""s sleep, you""ll be ready o take up where you left off at the factory.A soldier of peace instead of a soldier of war.Jim: I don""t want to be a soldier of anything.You see, Mom.I want o get out, away from routine.I had enough of that in the Army...I""ve been doing engineering work in the Army and that""s the kind of work I want to do now.A man""s job where he can accomplish things, where he can build, construct, create, do things.Rev.: That sounds very nice, but after all, a job in the hand""s worth wo in the bush.To appease them and follow their pre-determined plan, Jim starts work at the Parker Manufacturing Company ("The Home of Kumfort Shoes") the next day.