In an effort to save the family business, a shoemaker's son (Langdon) enters a cross-country foot race with hopes of walking away with the $25,000 prize. During the course of his westward hike, Harry woos the corporate boss's daughter ( a young and fetching Joan Crawford), is thrown in a chain gang and is dangled from the edge of a cliff (in a scene that rivals Harold Lloyd clockface escapade in Safety First) Before the finish line can be reached, Harry is caught in a violent tornado that devastates an entire town - a sequence of spectacular comedy and destruction that no doubt inspired the hurricane finale of Buster Keaton's Steamboat Bill, Jr.
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