Stan and Ollie get signed up to fight in WWI, where they befriend Eddie, a man with a child who’s wife leaves him. Eddie is killed in action and the boys resolve to track down Eddie’s daughter and then his parents to give them the child.
Laurel & Hardy’s second feature is quite unusual as it has some serious undertones going on amidst the fun. As well as it being unusual for someone to get killed in one of the films the scenes of wife and child abuse also seem quite out of place. Even more so when Stan and Ollie seem to be about to break into tough guy mode. (“And what are you going to do about it?” Ollie asks the abusive Rychard Cramer quite menacingly when he says they can’t take the child), but regardless of this is still good knockabout fun and thankfully, the girl doesn’t get in the way of the action too much.
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