The Passionate Plumber

Plot Summary

Paris plumber Elmer Tuttle is enlisted by socialite Patricia Alden to help make her lover Tony Lagorce jealous. With the help of his friend Julius J. McCracken and through the high society contacts he has made through Patricia, Elmer hopes to find financing for his latest invention, a pistol with a range-finding light. Comic complications ensue when Elmer's effort to interest a military leader is misconstrued as an assassination attempt.

Top Cast

Buster Keaton Elmer E. Tuttle

Jimmy Durante Julius J. McCracken

Polly Moran Albine

Irene Purcell Patricia Alden

Gilbert Roland Tony Lagorce