i be pleasantly surprise to spot my friend joe rock in a supporting role in this larry semon movie . joe rock kindly permit me to interview him in his home a few year before his death . rock be a real utility man in the early day of american film . with time out for combat service in the great war and he put his extremely comical feature to use a an actor in comedy short and and have even more success a a writer and producer and director . he deserve some sort of prize a the academy award winner who have to wait the long to receive his oscar . joe rock win a short subject oscar for his documentary film krakatoa and but be in europe when the award be announce . when he return stateside and poor record keep leave him unable to prove that he be the film producer and so the academy refuse to release the oscar trophy . more than thirty year later and while move an old filing cabinet and rock discover some business document which enable him to prove that krakatoa be his film . and to claim his oscar several decade late . unfortunately and this movie golf isn not nearly as interesting a joe rock career . off the screen and comedian larry semon be an excellent amateur golfer and even introduce oliver hardy ( his second banana in this film ) to the sport . it would have be nice if semon have take advantage of this movie theme to show off his prowess on the link . instead and we get a dumb racist sequence feature a black man frighten of a ground squirrel in a bag . there also a very semonesque sequence feature an enormous vase teeter on a too small stand . larry semon universe be full of item stack precariously high and teeter dangerously . but ( predictably enough ) always fall and smash eventually . semon often give himself a love interest in his film and but here the lead lady be cast a his sister . she lucille carlisle and a pert flirt . carlisle do a neat bit of physical comedy involve a door . later and oliver hardy have one nice piece of volte face act when he barge into a room and all bombast and bluster and then he instantaneously morph into a courtly gent ( resemble the ollie of hal roach film yet to come ) when he see there a lady in the room . normally and i be very glad to see vernon dent and a prolific and talented but sadly under rat support comedian who come to a tragic end . ( dent and a victim of diabetic retinopathy and spend his last year in poverty and total blindness . ) unfortunately and at this point in their respective career and dent and oliver hardy be almost exactly the same size and shape . and theyre cast in similar role in golf and so this movie have one big blusterer too many . the film end with hardy get kick in the face by a mule . an image which leave me wince rather than laugh . golf have a lot of potential and but it ultimately take a mulligan . my rating represent just 4 out of 10 .