The copy on YouTube is edited from 74 min down to 57 losing plot continuity and comedy. LaRoche is a social worker who runs a boy's club; he dreams of being able to raise the money to build the children a summer camp. His girlfriend tells him that she has persuaded her rich uncle - who she reveals is actually her father - to finance the camp. Jealous butler informs the father what is really going on and father refuses to finance it. Butler gets drunk-witnesses body of crime boss partner being dumped in an ally. Girl talks boy friend into stealing some bonds she has in a safe at home to finance the camp as money is really hers (in 3 months time). Jealous butler moves body to crime scene. Father comes home and Police are called in. Boyfriend flees and runs into hands of the crooks trying to recover body. Repentant butler helps him escape. Crooks chase them to boys club where the boys help police capture the crooks. The father finances the boy's clubs and the tipsy butler chases after a damsel in distress.
3 Reviews
Edited so badly it loses plot continuity and comedy, but still a time passer
ptpiers29 July 2018
Warning: Spoilers
The Butler Will Do It
boblipton3 August 2021
Mary Hennessey shows up at social worker Paul Colbert's rooms to tell him she has arranged for the money to send his orphans to camp for the summer. The money is going to be donated by her father, the irascible Eric Workman. He just has to show up that evening. However, three burglars break into Workman's place, and Colbert is at the wrong place at the wrong time. It's up to the old man's butler, peter Sturgess, to sort things out.
It's not a particularly fine comedy, as Sturgess plays his role in a very creepy manner; he's in love with Miss Hennessey too. Workman is okay, but a lot of time is spent showing us the orphans being cute -- usually in wild shots, doubtless because they coldn't manage any sort of timing in their line readings. If the movie is outstanding for anything, it's for William Shatner's first screen appearance, as one of the three thieves. He gets a half dozen or so brief lines.
It's not a particularly fine comedy, as Sturgess plays his role in a very creepy manner; he's in love with Miss Hennessey too. Workman is okay, but a lot of time is spent showing us the orphans being cute -- usually in wild shots, doubtless because they coldn't manage any sort of timing in their line readings. If the movie is outstanding for anything, it's for William Shatner's first screen appearance, as one of the three thieves. He gets a half dozen or so brief lines.
William Shatner's Screen Debut
Single-Black-Male26 February 2003
The 20 year old Canadian made his screen debut in this forgotten project titled 'The Butler's Night Off'. There's no shades of genius in it, nor does it contain any entertainment value. It did, however, provide a vehicle for Shatner's career.
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