It's The Old Army Game (1926 Edward Sutherland)

Silent W.C. Fields is the forerunner of It's A Gift, featuring equally annoying relatives and passers-by. Louise Brooks is his assistant at the drugstore - she's as lively as usual (she and Fields got on well; the director fell in love with her). Brooks: "Nobody in Ocala (Florida, where it was largely filmed) seemed to have heard of the Prohibition. And if ever there was a company that needed no help in the consumption of liquor, it was ours."

A Paramount picture, Fields' first starring role. Film incorporates fire, property scams, a destructive picnic and a car being pulverised.