在这部On the Dumb Waiter喜剧/短片片中,
Pat Flynn, after a night at the club, refuses to respond to his wife's entreaties to rise. She leaves him and goes to the grocery store. Across the hall from Flynn lives John Falls and his wife. John is very jealous and has left for his office, after having a quarrel. Mrs. Flynn goes to the grocery store and leaves an order with instructions to have the things sent at once. Falls discovers the loss of some papers and decides to go home. The grocery boy in going to deliver the Flynn order rings the dumbwaiter bell. Flynn hears the bell ringing and rises; he is in his night shirt. He goes into the hall to the dumbwaiter, gets the groceries, but is unable to get into his flat, the door having closed upon him, for it has a Yale lock. He decides to ask the Falls if he can go through their flat on the fire-escape and into his room. As he is going along the fire-escape he is seen by Mr. Falls, who, thinking he is his wife's lover, rushes into the house. Flynn, discovering that he has left the groceries in Falls' flat and noting his scanty attire, puts on his trousers and again knocks on Mrs. Falls' door, explaining his forgetfulness, when his door slams shut again. One more he asks permission to cross the balcony to his own flat. Mrs. Falls grants his request and in shutting the door, shuts it in her husband's face. He peeps through the keyhole, sees Flynn and his wife laughing, flies, and putting his shoulder to the door, forces the lock off, rushes in, refuses to listen to wife's explanation, draws a gun and fires out of the window. A policeman hears the shot and arrives in time to prevent Falls from doing bodily harm to Flynn. An explanation is given and all ends well.
