From 1934-1940, character actor Walter Catlett made a series of two-reel comedies for Columbia Pictures. Catlett is best known for the voice of Honest John Fox in Walt Disney's Pinocchio, but his Columbia output was mostly weak, in terms of material, but one 1940 effort You're Next!, co-starring Monte Collins does flow along nicely thanks to Del Lord's creative direction.

Catlett and Collins are two bumbling private eyes who are hired to come to the aid of a nervous millionaire who is being threatened by a mad scientist. Of course, the millionaire is kidnapped by him and the two men, along with the millionaire's loyal servant, played by the always reliable Dudley Dickerson, must rescue him at the scientist's house, where they run afoul of trap doors, spooky objects, and a bloodthirsty gorilla. One wonders if this would have worked as a Three Stooges short, but Catlett and Collins handle the material nicely.

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