Pardon My Berth Marks (1940)
* 1/2 (out of 4)
Buster Keaton gets a job as a reporter and he must track a woman to Reno. This woman was married to a gangster and she's running away to get a divorce but Keaton gets her into one mess after another. This here is certainly the weakest of the Keaton/Columbia shorts that I've seen. Once again poor Keaton must go through one unfunny gag after another and most of these gags are running into doors, hitting his head on the berth or just falling down. Another problem is that they have Keaton playing an idiot and this just isn't very funny and it certainly goes against all the classic Keaton out there. The film only has a few small laughs and most of these come from a talking parrot so that there should tell you how badly Keaton's talents are wasted.