Besides The Three Stooges, Andy Clyde was probably the best known of the comics making Columbia two-reel shorts. This is the first one of his I've seen, and while it has its moments, it didn't impress me all that much. It has most of the same crew the Stooges used, and there are familiar faces in the cast who regularly appear in Stooges shorts (Bud Jamison, Harry Semels), but it's not really all that funny. Columbia's comedy shorts tended to be fast-paced and frantic, trying to cram a lot of gags into their short running time, but this one seems to go on forever, especially (as another reviewer mentioned) in a scene where Andy is rolling down a hill lying on top of a door. There's a neat little bit where Andy is dancing with some cute little senorita in a cantina that's actually pretty funny, but overall it just doesn't gel. Maybe his other shorts were better than this one, but they'd pretty much have to be.
