The Counter Jumper

Story

Synopsis

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, 'counter jumper' was the term used in both Britain and the U.S.A. to describe the lowest dogsbody clerk in a general store or emporium. Here, Semon is employed in that capacity in an Old West general store that caters for desperate characters. As usual for Semon, most of the gag set-ups are deeply contrived and implausible. We get here not one but two separate sequences in which randomly splattered stains just happen to resemble a human face.

Director

Larry Semon

Writers

Larry Semon

Country

United States of America

Release date

8 December 1922

Ensemble

Cast

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  Larry Semon

  Larry, the Counter Jumper

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  Lucille Carlisle

  Glorietta Hope

• 

  Oliver Hardy

  Gaston Gilligan

• Curtis 'Snowball' McHenry

  A Clerk

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  Eva Thatcher

• 

  William McCall

• William Hauber

  Bit Role (uncredited)

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  Al Thompson

  Bit Role (uncredited)