A Rented Riot (1937) Poster

(1937)

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6/10
Party Like There's No Tomorrow
boblipton4 October 2023
While wife Lorraine McLane and everyone's mother-in-law Dot Farley are aware on vacation, Leon Erroll rents the apartment to Jack Carson to pay off a debt. Soon the police are coming because of the racket, and everyone leaves except for Carson's wife, Marjorie Beebe, just as Misses MccLane and Farley return.

It's a typically enjoyable episode of Errol's long-running series of short comedies for RKO. He does some nice rubber-legged antics, Miss Beebe show she can be funny when not tethered to Mack Sennett, and Carson picks up another paycheck from the studio. He's still playing bits at this stage, but does well with it.
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7/10
Leon, scheming as usual.
planktonrules31 December 2021
"A Rented Riot" is a Leon Errol short from RKO and like nearly all the Errol shorts, Leon is scheming and trying to stay out of trouble...rather unsuccessfully.

Around the same time Leon's mother-in-law is leaving to go on an extended trip, a bookie comes to threaten Leon to pay up...or else! Soon he meets a jerk (Jack Carson) in need of renting an apartment and Leon sees a chance to weasel out of his predicament. So, he rents the place...not realizing two things...the renter is a jerk AND his mother ends up returning early! What's next?

This is a pleasant and undemanding short film. Not among Errol's best...but still quite good and with a decent number of laughs.
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5/10
Welcome to the party!
mark.waltz13 September 2023
Warning: Spoilers
There's a larger cast than listed for this Leon Errol short which features a dozen or so extras and under fives not getting any credit for being at the party thrown by Errol's apartment sub lesee Jack Carson against his will. Leon's wife (Lorraine McLane) and stereotypically nasty mother-in-law have gone out of town and this gives Leon the idea of making some extra money, but of course, quick money making schemes always go astray in situations like this.

Moderately funny, but enough laughs to give Errol the opportunity to use his rubber legged comic talents to his advantage. Carson, in one of his earliest credits, shows the typical smugness for which he became well known, and makes a nice impression. Once again, Errol has a much younger wife, closer in age to sour mother-in-law Dot Farley who is similar to Elisabeth Risdon who played his nagging wife in the "Mexican Spitfire" films. Lots of door slamming and yelling, and fortunately this does not overstay its welcome.
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