This is a very busy very short feature that has absolutely nobody named Charlie in it but it does hurry. Leon Errol plays Daniel Jennings Boone, president of a local bank who seems to hate his job and is a henpecked husband. . But then his daughter is afraid of her mother (Cecil Cunningham) too. She wants to elope with the local bread man back when they delivered right to your doorstep. The guy has a company of his own and it is expanding, but both the daughter and Daniel are afraid to cross mom on the subject of her marriage since mom is an insufferable snob. The breadman isn't good enough for her daughter as far as the mother is concerned, and she is trying to couple her daughter up with somebody with blue blood, but he looks like he has a case of all body asthma and has the personality of a stop sign.
Daniel's problems begin when he arranges a two week vacation from the wife and the bank by claiming that the VP wants his advice in Washington, DC. Instead he steals away to Washington, Oklahoma for some fishing with an old friend. He thinks he has gotten away with it, except when he returns the whole town thinks Daniel knows the VP and the VP is coming to town. Also, he told some Native Americans he met in Oklahoma to stop by anytime and they actually do!
The racism against the Natives - like them having to go back to the reservation or there will be big trouble, as though this is 1870 and they are going to scalp someone - made me wince until Daniel finally tells everybody off about how the white man stole their land in the first place! Quite unexpected material for 1941.
If you like Leon Errol you'll probably like this one. If you've never seen him, Leon is like a cross between the constantly flustered Frank Morgan and the more modern Rodney Dangerfield who could never get any respect. Even if you've never seen Errol before I think you'd find this one mildly amusing.
