I've only seen Wheeler and Woolsey once before in one of the era's promotional shorts, and darn if Robert Woolsey wasn't an early inspiration for George Burns' gimmick with the horn rim glasses and cigar. Now that would have been a comedy team to cause a lot of double takes.
Right out of the box, this picture offers an eye opener with that sequence involving all those nearly naked gals with strategically placed obstacles placed where censors usually go. As a pre-Code film, this one gets rather titillating, with discreet emphasis on that first syllable. You'll just have to see it for yourself.
The story itself is virtually sheer slapstick, or lipstick if you will, as the boys attempt to aid Miss Daisy Maxwell's (Dorothy Lee) career at the Maiden America Beauty Products Company. The picture devolves into a frenetic series of vignettes where the boys put one over on the Clark Investment Company, the Maiden America gals, and a couple of detectives on the trail of some missing securities, all coming to a climax in a transcontinental cross country car race.
Perhaps the most interesting aspect of the picture for me was the clever special effects employed for those scenes at the billiard parlor, and the cyclone during the car chase. They looked quite innovative for the time and even today will make you wonder how they pulled off those stunts. However overall, I would think that this Wheeler and Woolsey pair are an acquired taste, as I found them more often annoying than amusing, even with some of their funny bits. Oh, and since I kept count, there were seven bananas in the story.
Right out of the box, this picture offers an eye opener with that sequence involving all those nearly naked gals with strategically placed obstacles placed where censors usually go. As a pre-Code film, this one gets rather titillating, with discreet emphasis on that first syllable. You'll just have to see it for yourself.
The story itself is virtually sheer slapstick, or lipstick if you will, as the boys attempt to aid Miss Daisy Maxwell's (Dorothy Lee) career at the Maiden America Beauty Products Company. The picture devolves into a frenetic series of vignettes where the boys put one over on the Clark Investment Company, the Maiden America gals, and a couple of detectives on the trail of some missing securities, all coming to a climax in a transcontinental cross country car race.
Perhaps the most interesting aspect of the picture for me was the clever special effects employed for those scenes at the billiard parlor, and the cyclone during the car chase. They looked quite innovative for the time and even today will make you wonder how they pulled off those stunts. However overall, I would think that this Wheeler and Woolsey pair are an acquired taste, as I found them more often annoying than amusing, even with some of their funny bits. Oh, and since I kept count, there were seven bananas in the story.