Pat Hobby Does His Bit Summary

Pat goes to an actor friend and asks for money in order to keep the finance company from repossessing his car. The actor is reluctant but finally agrees just to get Pat off his back. As Pat goes to leave, the director on the set calls action. Pat gets caught in the scene and no one notices until the female star of the movie has left the studio. In order to make all the scenes sequential, the director decides that Pat has to appear in all the scenes that his actor friend was originally set to do. Unfortunately, it turns out that Pat's character is supposed to be run over by a car. Pat objects, but the director is so angry with him for upsetting the production of the film that he refuses to listen...