 But the Battler keenly resents having been impersonated by a feeble milquetoast like Alfred, and he demonstrates his displeasure in the locker room, by beating the jello out of Alfred with a humiliating sequence of punishing blows to the head and body, until...

Like Keaton's earlier "Seven Chances", the film is an adaption of a stage work.The musical was called "Battling Buttler", by Walter L. Rosemont and Ballard MacDonald, and starred Charlie Ruggles on Broadway.It ran from October 8, 1923 to July 5, 1924.