Domestic violence is seldomly funny regardless of the victim's gender or the abuser's gender and while wife Vivian Oakland has every right to be angry over husband Leon Errol's drunken buffoonery, the constant punches and kicks just get to be a bit too much. He keeps missing planned dinner parties even when he's promised that he'd be home (sober), so it's obvious that he needs treatment, but this is just a tacky expose with badly written comic elements that doesn't work as a period piece or in modern terms.
We've seen Errol drunk on screen before in better shorts and features, and it was always a way of revealing his rubber legged talents, but this short doesn't even have a point of having him going into rehab. Oakland isn't just violent in dealing with him. She's a complete shrew, which gives justification to him getting plastered.
We've seen Errol drunk on screen before in better shorts and features, and it was always a way of revealing his rubber legged talents, but this short doesn't even have a point of having him going into rehab. Oakland isn't just violent in dealing with him. She's a complete shrew, which gives justification to him getting plastered.
