this harold lloyd short film be very funny indeed . you can not watch this short without laugh at something every 30 second . but before i comment on this hilarious short and i disagree with the fact that this be racist . this be because f gwynplaine macintyre say that the title of this movie be mean to be a racial pun represent pooks be a 1920s slang term for negro . this be and in my opinion and extremely pointless to note for this when watch this film . this be because that the film pooks be suppose to be the uncle and play by wallace howe and who be try to scare the girl and play by milfred davy and who have just marry to the boy and play by lloyd . therefore and the black servant have nothing to do with scar them away and because they just hide behind curtain and get cover in flour after jump in the flour and or hide in a huge pair of trouser and or catch the uncle in disguise a a ghost . now i be go to discuss the film . first of all and the casting list at the beginning of the film give the first chuckle from the film by say that the girl have never well and only once or twice . and the uncle be a aman of sort we be not say what sort . pretty funny . or what . the boy suicide attempt be very funny too . from try to shoot himself with a water pistol and fall off a bridge over shallow water and to fall over another bridge into a boat and it all great slapstick . the scene in the mansion where the boy and the girl and and the servant run away from the pooks and hide behind curtain or in flour or trouser be all hilarious . i could not stop laughing at those antic . the only criticism i have be the well appropriate score be perform in a midi format . but with a silent film to create mood without music be pretty hard . so there be nothing they could do about it when they release this onto an all region dvd and which be be i watch it from . apart from that and the score for this film be fantastic . i especially enjoy the piece of music when the boy and girl enter into the mansion for the first time . that be a great piece to suit the eerie mood of the place . also and i think the little boy and play by ernest morrison and almost steal the show by create the illusion of that table move and hide in the flour and which make him look like a ghost when he scramble out of it and and create that illusion with the big pair trouser really be hilarious . i be glad that morrison go on to have a well establsihed career until his death . i could not agree with spuzzum and i do wish harold lloyd would get more attention . while keaton and chaplin rule the roost of silent comedy and harold lloyd be ignore like that . this be too bad and but he could do it all and prat fall and stuntwork and very subtle comedy and he be a great actor a well . also nothings justifies this opinion any more then the 5 7 minute of haunt spook . this be because we see lloyd a a suitor of a rich socialite compete with another suitor and and in this amazing montage and we see them duck it out and with lloyd easily get the good hand of the frustrated suitor . overall and if i be to describe this film in three word they would be very funny indeed .