This is a one-reel comedy short made in 1929, which places it among the first talkies. Even more notable is that it represents the screen debut of the great Fred Allen, one of the wittiest men ever heard on radio. Allen was never quite as wonderful on film or TV as he was on radio but he was still always worth watching.
The Installment Collector was shot at the Kaufman-Astoria studios in New York. The man who plays the title role is reportedly actor-director Alonzo Price, who in January of that same year played a bill collector in the flop Broadway show, Polly, which starred Fred Allen. I don't know how that connects to this short but I guess there's some connection. The film was released in April of 1929. A month later was the premiere of The Cocoanuts, which was also shot at Kaufman-Astoria. So it's entirely possible that Mr. Allen visited the Marx Brothers on their stage…or maybe he even used theirs on one of their days off. All the studios were short on the new equipment during the early days of talking pictures and often had two movies going on the same stage, one shooting during the day and the other at night.
But that's enough speculation. Here's Fred Allen in his movie debut…