Briefly--the plot. These people work as shipping guys for a beer organization. These people choose to enter a golf event. They bust line right into a private membership to practice their golfing and screw everything upward. Then they get away within their truck as well as deliver barrels associated with beer tumbling all over the place. Observe, that didn't take very long.
Things i such as about this earlier Phony work may be the director, Delete Lord's (an old Mack Sennett director as well as stop driver) easygoing speed using the playing golf material. The almighty may also help to make their Phony films move such as wild fire, but the outside environment and also the improvisitory character of the golfing series lends itself to the pacing a little more similar to Laurel as well as Hardy than the Stooges. And where do we suppose this course actually had been? I have to presume we are exploring the huge, pristine area from the San Fernando Valley. I am guessing this particular mostly based on the avoid and the fact that the Columbia "Ranch" was in Northern Hollywood. (Most of the studios experienced "ranches"--additional outside places these people possessed they might use for capturing outdoor/pastoral materials, westerns etc. Last century Fox's farm was, obviously, on the website of what's right now Hundred years City). I additionally dig the ale barrel finish and my guess is that individuals hilly roads on which the climax takes place are near down-town Los angeles. Or perhaps they are that portion of Silverlake (Baxter Street. and so on.) that was always popular as the slapstick humor recording location (Laurel and Hardy's "Music Box" etc.)
Leonard Maltin, in the Stooge documents, seems that The almighty had been the best overseer the Stooges had, followed by Erectile dysfunction Bernds (that we will reach next). The characteristic of Lord's work is their obvious love of location work--the verite character from the outside and the daredevil use the18 wheeler and also the outside motion roots this firmly within the 20's "gee it's a good day time, lets get out there and create a humor short" school associated with slapstick filmmaking. Laurel and Hardy's 1929 "Men O'War" is another good example of this (it was shot in McArthur Park). With one of these old comedies, 1 likes not just viewing the film itself but the meta-movie-- the big event of the film being created. One of the pleasures of this, for me personally, is the fact that I'm able to feel the real day (or series of days) from the filming while watching the film. The weather, the digital cameras, the team waiting for nearby--grateful to be out of doors--the comics and also the helping players (in "Three Little Beers" a group of pretty women remain about in one scene, unnatural as well as stupidly smiling. They're obviously female friends of various executives from Columbia Photos who were told to "show upward and you will be in the picture!"). It all feels alive and there--part of what was captured on movie seventy-two years ago...
