One Track Minds

Zasu Pitts and Thelma Todd made about a dozen and a half comedy shorts as a team. For the most part, they were an amazingly unfunny lot of Hal Roach films....with flat scripts, little in the way of plots and few laughs. This is the last of these films and following this flat film, the studio realized it needed to do something to improve these shorts...so they substituted Patsy Kelly for Zasu in future shorts. Unfortunately, Thelma Todd died in 1935...and Patsy's new partner ended up dying a short time later! After these many cast changes, Roach decided to abandon the series...which, overall, was probably a good idea as they represented the studio's worst films (apart, possibly from their Boy Friends series).

Here in "One Track Minds" the pair are given better support than usual, with Sterling Holloway, Billy Gilbert and Spanky McFarland in supporting roles. The pair are heading to Hollywood, as Thelma has an upcoming screen test. Along the way, they meet up with a selfish German director as well as a deaf bee keeper.

So is it any good? Once again, no. The situation and what they do with it provides little in the way of laughs. A sad film that I wanted to like but which just felt like a third-string effort.