Pie-Eyed is a 1925 American silent comedy film starring Stan Laurel.

[1] The film is made at the peak of the Prohibition era so is dealing with "illegal activity" even if it is in a humorous manner.

Stanley is a member of he New Temperance Society but wants to check out the evils of drink.

He observes a young couple at the next table playing tricks with a spoon.

On his walk home he tumbles into a tree guard and thinks he is in jail.

He drops his top hat into the road and kicks it under a car when he tries to pick it up.

He loops his coat around a lamp-post when he puts it on and goes around in circles until a policeman arrives and asks where he lives.