The Villain Still Pursued Her

Billy Gilbert, Anita Louise, and Margaret Hamilton star in an experimental 1940 adaptation of the Victorian melodrama "The Drunkard," in which an evil villain in a top hat (Alan Mowbray) plots to get his prurient hands on the chaste heroine (Anita Louise)by compromising her husband with demon liquor. Fortunately, Hugh Herbert and Buster Keaton are on hand to help as a temperance man and the drunk's hilarious brother. In this unique play-within-a-film version, Billy Gilbert is the announcer who prompts the viewer to boo the villain and cheer the hero.