The Little Boss is a 1919 American silent romantic comedy film directed by David Smith and produced by Vitagraph Studios.[2] The story and screenplay were by Rida Johnson Young starring Bessie Love and Wallace MacDonald.
Dos borrachos, para escapar de los reproches de sus esposas, entran en un restaurante y la montan. Sus cónyuges, sin embargo, descubren su paradero y deben volver a huir.
Aprovechando la ausencia momentánea del esposo, Charlot coquetea con una dama en un banco del parque. Cuando el mismo regresa increpa a Charlot y le hace una escena a su mujer. En el hotel, donde la discusión continúa, Charlot se equivoca de puerta, reencuentra a la pareja y se hace expulsar violentamente. Charlot se acuesta en una habitación vecina pero la mujer, que es sonámbula, se le aparece y Charlot la devuelve a su habitación provocando un alboroto con el esposo y con todo el hotel. Refugiado en la parte exterior de una ventana, bajo la lluvia, es rescatado por la policía. En la batahola final Charlot trata de escapar pero la sonámbula vuelve a caer en sus brazos.
Mabel has two suitors - an oily con man, whom she mocks in a very funny scene where she is shown twiddling a fake moustache and making her feelings very clearly felt. Even in this early comedy her natural fun comes through. The one she really loves is clumsy yokel Ford Sterling, who is determined to buy an oil well that the con man has for sale. The conman gets a local fellow to pour oil over the property. Ford falls for it and buys it - Mabel and he are to be married. Then the fellow confesses that it was just a scam - there was no oil.
Two rivals for Mabel's hand play a series of dirty tricks on each other. Finally, one of them gets Mabel alone and is about to marry her, but his rival comes up with a strange scheme to stop them. Soon the Keystone Kops arrive on the scene, and chaos quickly ensues.
