Cast
| Marie Dressler (below) | Tillie Tinkelpaw |
| Johnny Hines (right) | J. Mortimer Pipkins |
| Frank Beamish | Henry Tinkelpaw |
| Rubye De Remer | Mrs. Luella Pipkins |
| Ruth Barrett | Mrs. Nosey |
| Jack Brawn | Mr. Nosey |
Director: Harry Davenport
Reviews
1. The same year that Roscoe Arbuckle and Buster Keaton invaded Coney Island (1917), Marie Dressler also had a comic romp at that famed playground. In her third and final outing as Tillie, she plays an unhappy wife who decides to have FUN and teams up with henpecked neighbor (Johnny Hines) to have a whirl. No real plot but lots of slapstick action and terrific views of 1917 Long Island and Coney Island. The rides are primitive but good enough to allow Dressler to fall and tumble and mug for the camera. Hines is not so funny (and certainly no Chaplin, Dressler's co-star in Tillie's Punctured Romance) but is an OK foil. Dressler was 49 when she made this film; Hines was 22! Not a great comedy, but it's a miracle a print of this still exists. Frank Beamish is the husband, Rubye de Remer the wife, and Nora Cecil can be seen at the ice cream stand. Dressler may well have been the funniest woman in the history of films, so it's nice to be able to see her early slapstick silents.
2. Marie Dressler's considerable acting and comedic talents were not truly realized until the talkies, but here in her third film, she again uses the character of Tillie, which she originated onstage in TILLIE'S PUNCTURED ROMANCE and made her first film (incidentally, the first feature film comedy).
Tillie is a comic caricature - quick to innocence, quick to anger. Here she is unhappily married to a business man who flirts with his young upstairs neighbor, a woman who henpecks her husband (Johnny Hines). Johnny decides to end it all but first he will have a last fling. Tillie decides to make her husband jealous by finding a "Romeo."
It's all an excuse for Hines and Dressler to go to Coney Island and take advantage of all of the rides, before the forsaken husband and wife come to find them and ask forgiveness. Total nonsense!!!!
The slapstick is practically non-stop. Dressler does her first-time drunk bit as she did in PUNCTURED ROMANCE and the pratfalls are many. Hines' character never gels and Dressler does nothing more than mug outrageously and keep falling down. Her agility considering her age and weight were a constant surprise.