Thursday, October 17, 2019

The Gay Nighties (1933)

Bobby Clark and Paul McCullough were a vaudeville act in the 1920s and 1930s who made some comedy shorts in the 1930s. Rather zany, rather odd and, while patchy, not that bad.

Here they are the campaign mangers of a politician (James Finlayson) at a convention. Their job is to discredit their boss' rival and... well that is the vague plot. The film is mostly a series of jokes and slapstick, some of it quite risque. It doesn't always work but when it does it is funny. A short feature, just enough to not outstay it's welcome.