Review of Our Relations

Having elsewhere played their wives, or their young sons, in this film, Stan and Ollie eventually encounter their pair of seafaring twins, Alf and Bert, after the later have unknowingly been creating trouble, with their finances, and with a stolen pearl ring. In this mistaken identity farce, Jim Finlayson, as Finn, also plays a part in the first half, when he convinces Alf and Bert to hand over their savings to him, as their unofficial investment manager, claiming he will eventually make them millionaires. Finn gives them only $1. for spending money, which turns out to be woefully inadequate, when they meet a couple of gold digging cuties in Deuker's beer garden. They had stopped here for a beer, on there way to deliver a small package to their captain. Illicitly, they opened the package, to find a peart ring. This would come in handy when it was time to pay the exorbitant bill that the cuties had rung up, in ordering only the most expensive. They lend the ring to the waiter, Joe,(played by Alan Hale) on the condition that they would be back with more money to pay the bill. They went back to Finn to weasel more of their savings out of him. But, he refused. So, they took off his clothes and hocked them for S2., still not nearly enough. He tells them that he had sewn their money into the clothes he was wearing.(odd!) So, they return to the pawn broker and retrieve the clothes, and eventually their money,. Meanwhile, Stan and Ollie and their wives: Bubbles(Betty Brown), and Daphne(Daphne Pollard) enter Deuker's. The two cuties are disturbed that the pair has ditched them for 'a couple of 'old crows', insult the wives, and walk out. Apparently, Stan and Ollie give the waiter the money owed for the cutie's expenses(why?) Apparently, because when they paid, the waiter gave them the ring, which they considered of greater worth than the money they paid. After the 4 leave, Burt and Alf return with the money and ask for the ring back. But, the waiter says he already just gave them the ring......Later, Stan and Ollie and the wives go to a high class restaurant, Alf and Bert and a drunk they picked up are there, as are the 2 cuties. The sailor boys talk to the cuties, but don't see their siblings. Somehow? , the ring gets transferred from Stan to Alf. The 2 gangsters take Stan and Ollie for 'a ride', thinking that Stan has the ring(he doesn't). Not finding the ring, Stan and Ollie's feet are encased in cement in semicircular containers, so that they rock back and forth on the edge of the pier, happen to knock all the gangsters into the water, and eventually fall off together. Now, the Captain shows up with police(How did they know where to go??). Also, Bert and Alf show up(Why, and how did they know where to go?, follow the Captain?)). While the captain is partially lifting and lowering the anchor that Stan and Ollie are clinging to, Alf surprisingly finds the ring in his jacket pocket, and he and Bert find the Captain, giving him the ring. The Captain and police freak out, and run out, leaving Alf and Burt to deal with Stan and Ollie, still in the water. See the ending, and, in fact, the whole fiilm at YouTube, both the B&W and colorized versions.........I wonder if the screenplay would have been even more interesting if Alf once thought Ollie was Bert, and Bert thought Stan was Alf. Perhaps that would be too confusing? I'm already confused enough.