Heave-Ho

Sidney Smith and Teddy Reavis agree to run away on a cruise ship. The exigencies of the story call for them to cross-dress, and flirt with members of the same sex.

It's a rather dull late-silent short subject from William Pizor's production company. Long regarded as the cheapest of the Poverty Row producers, he managed to catch Smith for this comedy just at the moment when every comic was wondering how to survive in the coming sound era. Smith was a competent silent comic, but with about 40% of the comics named Sidney or some variation, and three or four other Sidney Smiths, he was undoubtedly worried about working again. The result produces few laughs, but a puzzle: with two male deck officers, why are all the hands girls?