Stan & Ollie attempt to fool their wives by sneaking out to a poker game, but instead get involved with two flirty ladies, one of whom is the girlfriend of a jealous boxer.
Acting
Laurel & Hardy's timing so sharp it could cut glass.
Direction
McCarey builds escalating farce like a master architect of destruction.
Director
Leo McCarey
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
A prime example of 'pre-Code' Hollywood—flirty women, wandering husbands, and zero moral consequences. The Hays Code would soon make this impossible.
Leo McCarey later directed The Awful Truth and Going My Way—he learned his comic timing here, in the trenches with Stan and Ollie.
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