Short film
Are Scotchmen Tight
1929 · 12 min
A featherweight silent slapstick short that breezes by on silly neighbourly one-upmanship and easy visual gags.
- Directed by
- Neal Burns
- Genres
- Comedy
- Starring
- Jack Duffy, Eddie Barry, Neal Burns
- Overview
- Two competitive Scotsmen are neighbours. Trouble starts when a tax inspector announces his imminent arrival, and the Scotsmen have to stash their expensive furniture. As soon as one succeeds in hiding every last stick, the other figures out where to put his. In his neighbour's now empty house!
- How it feels
- Light, absurd and satirical. Brisk and fine in the background.
- About
- Greed, class, deception
- Content
- No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Neal Burns
- Genres
- Comedy
- Starring
- Jack Duffy, Eddie Barry, Neal Burns





