This delightful short film, written by and starring Will King, features a notable uncredited performer— an as-yet-unknown Jean Harlow! Barely a year into her Hollywood career, Harlow puts in a truly scene-stealing turn as the “Blonde Night Club Patron” who compares pronunciations with a bewitched King. This centerpiece nightclub scene also features roller-skating dancers, sharp dialogue-based jokes (even at this early point in the development of sound-on-film technology), prohibition high-jinx, and a gruff and hungry bulldog! The film was written and lead by Will King. Though a lauded vaudevillian, King only appeared on screen in two films, making Weak But Willing a crucial window into a rapidly disappearing art form. The script is generously peppered with Yiddish, with an increasingly irritated King lapsing into his native tongue as his frustration increases over the course of an evening where all he wants is some dinner, but he is thwarted at every turn. Dot Farley endlessly chastises King throughout the film in the role of his wife. Farley had over three hundred and seventy screen credits over the course of her forty-year career. A prolific performer in shorts, she also made an impact in feature films, including The Red Kimono, The Signal Tower and her final film, Robert Siodmak’s The File on Thelma Jordan. Her presence in Weak But Willing is a powerful one.