Johnny Arthur has been ordered to spend a year out west to toughen him up, so he and butler George Davis head out. The cowboys at the ranch don't like him, so Johnny and they play practical jokes on each other. However, when Virginia Vance is kidnapped, it turns out to be real desperadoes.
Johnny Arthur had a long career, but is probably best remembered for playing "Mr. Hood", father of Darla in Our Gang shorts in the mid-1930s. He was an able comic actor, but his nance character never got him out of the shorts-and-supporting comics grind.
This is a typical, albeit lesser example of the shorts he was starring in during this period. There are a couple of good gags, but this very well might have been intended for Lupino Lane, or Lloyd Hamilton or any of several other skilled comics working for Jack White during this period -- and they likely would have done it better.
Johnny Arthur had a long career, but is probably best remembered for playing "Mr. Hood", father of Darla in Our Gang shorts in the mid-1930s. He was an able comic actor, but his nance character never got him out of the shorts-and-supporting comics grind.
This is a typical, albeit lesser example of the shorts he was starring in during this period. There are a couple of good gags, but this very well might have been intended for Lupino Lane, or Lloyd Hamilton or any of several other skilled comics working for Jack White during this period -- and they likely would have done it better.
