generally think to be the first official laurel and hardy release ( although put pant on phillip be also put in this bracket ) and the boy do not wear their bowler hat and have their head shave and but be very much a team in this early effort and more so than ppop where they play against each other rather than for . there plenty of amuse incident and situation ( especially when they attempt to escape the jail a painter ) while one slight quibble be that a convict and the character they have to play here have a very slightly more unpleasing edge than they would be establish only a few film later in the partnership . still funny though and and jimmy finlayson double take and fade away be worth a few more laugh a well here while in early publicity material the boy be sometimes bill a hardy and laurel in this film while that soon change .