Hot Water (1924 film)

Hot Water is a 1924 American silent comedy film directed by Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor and starring Harold Lloyd.

The second features Hubby grudgingly taking the family out on his brand new Butterfly Six automobile (with disastrous results), and the third is an escapade with his sleepwalking mother-in-law.

The third segment almost qualifies the film as a horror movie, as in it, Hubby mistakenly believes he has actually killed his mother-in-law, and when she starts sleepwalking later, he thinks she's a ghost haunting him.

Its storyline was also interesting as a unique departure from most of Lloyd’s 1920s features, because his character was married with a family, and was not striving for success, recognition, or romance.

Critic Christopher Workman comments "At a way, way too long 60 minutes, "Hot Water" relies on a seemingly endless succession of pratfalls for its yuks.

Hot Water
Lobby card for the film