This one of Leon Errol's short subjects for RKO was clearly influenced by the Laurel&Hardy classic Sons Of The Desert. It's almost an illegitimate son of the Sons Of The Desert. Errol gets himself in enough trouble for both Stan and Ollie put together.
Poor Leon and his friend Josef Forte really think they've put one over on Errol's wife. He says he was at a business convention in Seattle, but what he has been doing is having fun and frolic in Tijuana. The jig should have been up because when Errol returns he finds that the plane from Seattle that Virginia Vale who is Mrs. Errol thinks Leon is on is missing and overdue and feared down.
Leon's in a real spot, but he and Forte go back to the apartment with no real set plan in mind. But Vale who knows about the missing plane and sees Leon arriving in front sets him with a few gags of her own with fake lover.
In this film Leon eschews his normal drunk act and plays it strictly sober, not that it helps any. If this short had been done at MGM instead of RKO, Frank Morgan would have gone to town with poor Leon's predicament. Josef Forte has an unusual role of kibitzer in the film, just commenting on the situation, offering Errol bad advice, maybe deliberately because he looks amused at the whole affair.
This is a pretty amusing short subject with of course bows to Stan and Ollie for inspiring it.
Poor Leon and his friend Josef Forte really think they've put one over on Errol's wife. He says he was at a business convention in Seattle, but what he has been doing is having fun and frolic in Tijuana. The jig should have been up because when Errol returns he finds that the plane from Seattle that Virginia Vale who is Mrs. Errol thinks Leon is on is missing and overdue and feared down.
Leon's in a real spot, but he and Forte go back to the apartment with no real set plan in mind. But Vale who knows about the missing plane and sees Leon arriving in front sets him with a few gags of her own with fake lover.
In this film Leon eschews his normal drunk act and plays it strictly sober, not that it helps any. If this short had been done at MGM instead of RKO, Frank Morgan would have gone to town with poor Leon's predicament. Josef Forte has an unusual role of kibitzer in the film, just commenting on the situation, offering Errol bad advice, maybe deliberately because he looks amused at the whole affair.
This is a pretty amusing short subject with of course bows to Stan and Ollie for inspiring it.