Once a Plumber is a 1920 comedy film directed by Eddie Lyons. It was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures.
Plot 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.
Cast Eddie Lyons as William Wilson Lee Moran as Joseph Blynn George B. Williams as Hoban Sydney Deane as Fenelon Jeff Osborne as Parker Lillian Hackett as Mary Foster Edna Mae Wilson as Kate Beard Jane Elliott as Gertrude Parker Ethel Ritchie as Ethel Fenelon Lew Short as Detective
Reception 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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