Lloyd Hamilon and Bud Duncan, at this stage in their careers, formed a comedy team of 'Ham and Bud'. They played two vicious tramps who wandered into situations, engaged in some not too funny torture and left. Later Lloyd Hamilton became an accomplished and inventive screen comedian who drank himself to death and Bud Duncan continued working for thirty years.
This is one of their less chaotic vehicles, which may be due to the fact it is directed by Marshall Neilan or due to the fact that it happens to survive in better shape than most of their films. It begins with them starving, but instead of letting the audience enjoy their deaths, they get a job converting canine dogs to sausage dogs -- the 'Automatic Sausage Machine' is an old vaudeville routine, one version of which was filmed by Edison in the 1890s -- put a dog in the hopper, turn a crank and a string of sausages comes out. Ham operates the machine, Bud steals dogs. Variations on that are the gags in this movie, except for when Ham sticks a carving knife into Bud. Fun for psychopaths everywhere.
This is one of their less chaotic vehicles, which may be due to the fact it is directed by Marshall Neilan or due to the fact that it happens to survive in better shape than most of their films. It begins with them starving, but instead of letting the audience enjoy their deaths, they get a job converting canine dogs to sausage dogs -- the 'Automatic Sausage Machine' is an old vaudeville routine, one version of which was filmed by Edison in the 1890s -- put a dog in the hopper, turn a crank and a string of sausages comes out. Ham operates the machine, Bud steals dogs. Variations on that are the gags in this movie, except for when Ham sticks a carving knife into Bud. Fun for psychopaths everywhere.
