The Hansom Cabman is a 1924 American silent black and white short comedy film starring Harry Langdon directed by Harry Edwards[1] and produced by Mack Sennett.

The film begins at a tall hotel, "The Venus Arms" and we zoom in to a window.

Inside Harry Doolittle nurses a hangover with an empty bottle by his side.

Harry tells him to go, but the butler says his "wife" asked for it and clarifies that he got married last night at his party.

His new wife starts throwing things, including a large sword which splits the door.

They make fun of him and al skip off apart from a bobble-nosed drunk talking to a drawing on the wall about the sardine situation in Denmark.

The man seems drunk and attacks an invisible rat before continuing the conversation with the drawing.

As he kisses her through the bars a man with a broken arm kicks his backside and tells him to get to work.

The man (now holding a cleaver) tells him he is mopping the floor with the soup - cream of tomato.

When he phones he is told he escaped that morning and the judge orders the entire police force to search for him.

Harry, unaware of his pending release has disguised himself as a cabman and stands beside a horse-drawn hansom cab.

Meanwhile Harry has found a different policeman and brings him back to look at the now-gone poster and criminal.

While hiding behind a bush he fails to notice he is on a plank for workmen and he is raised into the air.

He ends up on top of the police Black Maria which is carrying Betty and her mum in their search for him.