The Villain Still Pursued Her (1940)

Victorian melodrama gets a big sendup in this spoof production of the old play The Drunkard or The Fallen Saved The play within the movie is the old one where evil villain Cribbs schemes to get his lusty clutches on the heroine by driving her naive husband to alcoholic ruin Luckily a temperance lecturer is on hand to set things straight as is the great Buster Keaton as the drunkards friend