the best laurel and hardy short be fill to the brim with mishap and accident and destruction and mostly cause by stan and but with ollie receive the bulk ( . ) of the punishment see the great the music box ( 1933 ) or tow in a hole ( 1932 ) a some some classic example . here and however and for some reason ( be it because it be base on a sketch by stan father . ) the boys play it traight in a comedy build around joke and supposedly funny situation . it doesn not come off . it merely another third rate tedious 30 comedy and heighten only by the personality of stan and ollie who never really display any of their trademarked gesture ( ollie finger wiggle and stan blank stare and etc . ) or comic ability . the film begin with them run from the police . since we never see or know why and it hard to believe or accept their fear of be catch and and thus hiding in colonel buckshot mansion . the premise for the humor and ollie pass himself off a the colonel and stan passing himself off a both the butler and the maid be never very engage . they be not play stan and ollie in this film . their part could have be play by any of the pedestrian studio actor and it would be just a poor . stan could mime and make whatever he would do funny and but he doesn not get the chance to do any of that here . he constrain by utter too much dialog to amove the plot and but none of it rise much above the silly . we be treat to endless third rate comedy chestnut such a the run gag of not correctly pronounce lord plumtree name and the call me a cab . okay youre a cab . joke and cop lose their clothes and be see in long john and and a non sequiter end of stan and ollie a the two part in a painfully obvious horse costume a they make their escape on a bicycle for two and and james finlayson be still do his silent era full body take and keystone kop jump jack . stan and ollie do much well in a situation comedy in son of the desert ( 1933 ) where we get to see them do what we love about them be themselves . in fact and 1932 34 seem to be their best year . since this film do not play to any of their strength and why bother with it . i have to give it a 3 .