| Once a Plumber | |
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| Directed by | Eddie Lyons Lee Moran |
| Written by | C.B. Hoadley Edgar Franklin |
| Starring | Eddie Lyons Lee Moran George B. Williams |
| Cinematography | Alfred Gosden |
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| Distributed by | Universal Film Manufacturing Company |
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Running time | 5 reels |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
Once a Plumber is a 1920 comedy film directed by Eddie Lyons. It was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures.
There are two plumbers who are anxious to find a quicker way of getting rich than by plumbing (if such is possible). They think they find it when they are elected president and secretary of a copper mining company. They find that the duties of the president and secretary consist of wearing jazzy sport clothes, drinking lots of gin rickeys and being vamped by a duo of pleasing experts. A little later some detectives arrive, and they find that another of their duties is to be the goats for the fraudulent promoters of a fake company. Instead of finding a quick way to get in a palace, they find it a quick way to get in jail.
In a contemporary review for Motion Picture News, Frank Leonard called it an "Average economy which should interest". He praised the acting, but criticized the lack of slapstick humor.
A contemporary review in the The Chicago Defender called it a "clever and good humored farce".
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