A Leon Errol comedy, The Wrong Room is a two-reel comedy. Miss Lake describes it as an three-reel subject, so they must have cut it afterwards.A Leon Errol comedy, The Wrong Room is a 20 minute RKO radio production comedy bedroom farce is in the typical style of early chaplin-esque run-arounds.
It revolves around the drunken return of "Professor Errol" to his hotel after a long night out. A series of pratfalls and comically timed accidents leave the reveller in the wrong bedroom. In fact the room of a newly wed lawyer and his suffering bride.
Miffed that her husband is a slave to his business the new bride goes to sleep only to be woken by the efforts of Errol trying to sleep on the sofa. Upon seeing him she faints and he proceeds to try to bring her round with brandy; mistaking hair tonic for the brandy she wakes and thinks he is trying to poison her, she faints again.
Luckily Connie doesn't weigh very much because throughout the rest of the movie she is carried, dragged, dropped and faints. It is still funny today even if we've seen this many times before.
The classic format of the drunken businessman on the run from his wife and finding himself in awkward situations by accident is so tired when people recreate it today. It was nice to see how it was done originally and before it was such a cliques.
Worth seeing just for a very young Connie Keane, who looks ever inch the young bride and with the few words she has she does come over very well.
Author: Mark R Nash (Wales, UK)