There are comic strips that stand the test of time, others that become offensive and some that dated even more each week. That's the case for Snuffy Smith and Barney Google, two Hicks from the backwoods who seem to believe that they are more sophisticated than the big city folk. This is a follow-up to "Private Snuffy Smith" with Bud Duncan and Cliff Nazarro as Snuffy and Barney, and Edgar Kennedy repeating his role as a frustrated Sergeant. This film has Duncan and Kennedy guarding a rocket that the Nazi's want to get their hands on which leads the two to become involved with seductive spy Nicolle Andre.
A strange horserace sequence distracts from the main plot, involving Doris Linden, daughter of thr rocket's inventor, Lucien Littlefield, involved with soldier Alan Baldwin. There are sequences which should be funny (Barney riding the rocket a la Slim Pickens in "Dr. Strangelove" but just lay there, even if the visual is amusing. Kennedy scores in the scene where he tries to guard the rocket, and is drugged but attempts to keep the Nazi's out even though he's about to pass out. It's too prepsterous to be really enjoyable. Dated jokes can be funny if clever, but clever and this film do not belong in the same sentence.
A strange horserace sequence distracts from the main plot, involving Doris Linden, daughter of thr rocket's inventor, Lucien Littlefield, involved with soldier Alan Baldwin. There are sequences which should be funny (Barney riding the rocket a la Slim Pickens in "Dr. Strangelove" but just lay there, even if the visual is amusing. Kennedy scores in the scene where he tries to guard the rocket, and is drugged but attempts to keep the Nazi's out even though he's about to pass out. It's too prepsterous to be really enjoyable. Dated jokes can be funny if clever, but clever and this film do not belong in the same sentence.