The Chumps

Honeymooners Franklin Pangborn and Marjorie Beebe are on their way to Europe with $5,000 in cash. First, however, they have a poker game on the train to New York with Bud Jamison and his wife, Miami Alvarez. They win. When the Jamisons invite them to their house, the Pangborns don't realize they're part of a card-sharping gang.

It's a pleasant enough little tale, but it lacks much of the funny business that one expects from a Mack Sennett short. Andy Clyde, as a tippling confederate tries some gags, but the emphasis here is on the story.

Begins with pangborn and beebe getting married and boarding a train for honeymoon.

Make 'friends' on train Clyde and Jamison.

Clyde--drunk butler/confederate

When the story begins, a newly married couple (Franklin Pangborn and Marjorie Beebe) board a train for their honeymoon. Soon they make friends with what they THINK is a nice couple...not realizing they are card sharps. They crooks are spotted on the train and are warned NOT to take advantage of other passengers...so they invite the couple to their home in order to fleece them. Does the plan go as the crooks planned?

On hand in supporting roles are familiar Three Stooges foil, Bud Jamison as well as the popular comic, Andy Clyde. Both help make this film better.

So is it worth seeing? Yes...it's a very pleasant film. But, I should also add that there aren't a huge number of laughs...and it certainly SHOULD have been funnier. The situation should simply have provided more humor and oddly didn't.