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Director
  
Richard Wallace

Running time
  
1h 2m

6.4/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Short, Comedy

Producer
  
Hal Roach

Country
  
United States

Language
  
Silent film English intertitles

Writer
  
Stan Laurel
,
Hal Yates

Release date
  
January 17, 1926 (1926-01-17)

Directors
  
Hal Roach, Richard Wallace

Screenplay
  
Stan Laurel, Frank Terry, Hal Yates, Malcolm Stuart Boylan

Cast
  
Stan Laurel
(The Man in the Window),
James Finlayson
(The Father-in-Law),
Martha Sleeper
(The Butler),
Katherine Grant
(Billie),
Clyde Cook
(Claudia)

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Whats the World Coming To?, also known as A Furious Future, is a 1926 American silent film featuring Stan Laurel.

Poor little short comedy which posits that in a hundred years men's styles will revert to Regency garb, and that there will be a complete role reversal, with Clyde Cook staying home alone while wife Katherine Grant goes tomcatting if that's the word around town. That and the blimps that can be seen out the window are the only jokes. Given that the gags would not be funny were the the sex roles not reversed, it's no better this way

Plot

Set 100 years in the future, women dominate society and men are the "weaker" sex, assuming the stereotypical roles of pampered women. A stay-at-home husband of a well-off successful businesswoman, Billie, is cheating on her. Another dominant woman tries to seduce Cook, but a ruckus breaks out when Billie returns home and finds the two flirting.

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Cast

  • Clyde Cook as Claudia, the blushing groom/the baby
  • Katherine Grant as Billie, the bride
  • James Finlayson as The father-in-law
  • Helen Gilmore as A neighbor
  • Martha Sleeper as Butler
  • Laura De Cardi as A family friend
  • Stan Laurel as Man in window (uncredited)

    • References

    Whats the World Coming To? Wikipedia
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    Whats the World Coming To? IMDb Whats the World Coming To? themoviedb.org