Stan Laurel once called his and Oliver Hardy's early features, "a three story house on a one story foundation". Here, Godsen and Correll, masters of the fifteen minute radio program, attempt to stretch their sketches into a feature film. Because of their success with the early Marx Brothers, Harry Ruby and Bert Kalmar were brought in to write the dialog, but their experience was also in short bursts of business, so there's little continuity in the "plot". Even though they created the characters of Amos and Andy, Godsen and Correll aren't as funny on screen as they were on radio, and not as effective as Spencer Williams and Tim Moore as the Kingfish, on TV. This may be a good movie for nostalgia buffs and film students, but it isn't especially funny.
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