One Week

One Week(1920)

"Two reels of side-splitting fun arising from the trials of honeymooners…"

7.9/10
302 votes
25 minAugust 29, 1920

Overview

Newlyweds receive a build-it-yourself house as a wedding gift—and the house can, supposedly, be built in "one week". A rejected suitor secretly re-numbers packing crates, and the husband struggles to assemble the house according to this new 'arrangement' of its parts.

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