Beans for Two(1918)

Beans for Two is a silent-era farce about a couple who unknowingly save toward the same goal. A man and woman each begin stockpiling beans to earn savings points for a gramophone, unaware of the other's identical plan. Their parallel schemes spiral into comic chaos as beans accumulate in their home. By the film's end, the couple finds themselves buried under mountains of beans and the proud owners of two gramophones—a absurd payoff to their well-intentioned but misguided thrift.