Two Pay Days (Part II) (1927)

★★★ · More encouraging tips for all you workers.. We're spying on you! · Spuzz · 2004-10-23

So after viewing the second part of this film (the first part was shockingly unavailible), I am rather up in the air what this silent film was trying to achieve. It seems that most of the car salepeople in this film aren't really doing work to the capacity that management wants. So they put out a spy to check up on the workers. They find out that they're not even TRYING. Instead, they're hanging out at the local soda shop, playing pool, and occasionally hanging out in front of the dealership to bag the first custimer that came along. (Remember, Car salesman went door to door in the olden…

★★ · Sell! Sell!! Sell!!! · 78rpmnut · 2008-02-17

It's rather simple. A simple narrative about a dealership that's not doing well and the book keeper decides to find out why by following the salesmen (remember its 1927 and car salesmen made calls to prospects then). He sees the salesmen slacking, and then the plot switches to the Chevy sales system pitch. The 1927 dealers watching this were supposed to take notice then and use the system to get the sales up. It probably worked back then. Today people have short attention spans and it's more funny than informative.