The episode improved dramatically in the second half of it, once the boys got a free meal at a nice middle-aged widow's rural house. In a nutshell, they want to repay her for her kindness, wind up "fixing" her well only to have it turn into an oil well! Then, they have to race to find the swindlers had just bilked the lady out of her land before the crooks can get the deed made official.
There was tons of slapstick in this short feature, so I guess you pick what you like and ignore the rest. For me, I laughed a lot from the halfway point. From that point, the jokes were better as well as the sight gags, topped off by the outrageous sight of Curly on top of a spouting oil well!
By the way, one of the three swindlers was played by James Craig, who turned to be a decent feature-film actor ("The Human Comedy," Kitty Foyle" among others)
I'm glad other reviewers laughed too at the line "Don't look now, but I think were about to get killed," by Curly. There was just something about how casual he said it as their car was about to dive off a cliff!
There was tons of slapstick in this short feature, so I guess you pick what you like and ignore the rest. For me, I laughed a lot from the halfway point. From that point, the jokes were better as well as the sight gags, topped off by the outrageous sight of Curly on top of a spouting oil well!
By the way, one of the three swindlers was played by James Craig, who turned to be a decent feature-film actor ("The Human Comedy," Kitty Foyle" among others)
I'm glad other reviewers laughed too at the line "Don't look now, but I think were about to get killed," by Curly. There was just something about how casual he said it as their car was about to dive off a cliff!