I have been running into Shemp Vitaphone Shemp shorts on YouTube lately. They have been of varying quality with Shemp usually teamed with a different guy and no consistency in his personality. This is the best one so far. It is pretty much a swipe from Laurel and Hardy's Unaccustomed As We Are, later reused by them for the climax of Blockheads. The director is Lloyd French who directed some Laurel and Hardy shorts. Shemp's wife is Anita Garvin who also played with L&H. There is also some Helpmates in this. The effort is hurt a little from the weakness of his teammate here who is certainly no competition for Stan Laurel. Shemp is in more Moe groove than his simpleton in some of the other Vitaphone shorts.
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