This one has Frank Randle and stooges operating under the direction of Quota Quicky specialist Maclean Rogers. The plot, for what it is -- mainly a method for getting from one comedy skit to another -- has Frank and chief stooge Gus Aubrey being invalided out of the army, going into the home decorating business, and finally conducting a brass band in a medley with a collapsing stage -- I saw some of the gags here in one of the P.D.Q. concerts of Professor Peter Schickele. There is also a subplot in which Frank is due to inherit fifty thousand pounds, but the secondary heir is trying to have him declared insane; also, Frank's niece, played by Nancy O'Neil, wants to marry her young man.
As seems to be typical, all these problems are handwaved away before the big production number is more than begun. It's an excuse for Frank and stooges to perform some of their rude, destructive stage skits, with the venue opened up only slightly for the movie screen.
As with the other Frank Randle picture I've seen -- SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND -- it's strictly B material meant to capture the stage performance of Northern favorite Randle, meant to play local cinemas in the North, and of no more importance to World Cinema than the "Weaver Brothers & Elviry" comedies produced by Republic Pictures for their rural audiences in the U.S. However, as a record of the comedy material that was popular once you got out of the major cities, it is well done.
