Stan and Ollie came up against Edgar Kennedy a few times in their career - and he's as incompetent and clumsy as them in this fair-to middling short. Kennedy plays a cop under pressure to perform by his boss after 42 unsolved burglaries take place on his patch. Stumbling across a couple of bums (guess who) sleeping on a park bench one night, he persuades them to burgle his boss's house so that he can nab them and get into the boss's good books. Exactly how he persuades them is something of a mystery, but there you have it - this is a Laurel & Hardy comedy after all...
Naturally, Stan and Ollie prove to be the world's worst burglars. In their attempts to keep quiet they manage to smash a greenhouse and set fire to the curtains in between smacking each other with their bowlers. James Finlayson is the police chief's manservant in this one, although he and the boys don't really share a scene as such. The film ends fairly suddenly, with Stan, his backside jammed into a dustbin, scurrying away like a demented crab. Poor Ollie has never looked more consistently exasperated than he does in this one.
Naturally, Stan and Ollie prove to be the world's worst burglars. In their attempts to keep quiet they manage to smash a greenhouse and set fire to the curtains in between smacking each other with their bowlers. James Finlayson is the police chief's manservant in this one, although he and the boys don't really share a scene as such. The film ends fairly suddenly, with Stan, his backside jammed into a dustbin, scurrying away like a demented crab. Poor Ollie has never looked more consistently exasperated than he does in this one.