Review of Towed in a Hole

The boys are slowly riding down the road, smelling of the fish in the back of their car. They seem happy and confident as door to door fishmongers. Ollie is beaming as he sings his come hither greeting, while Stan blows his horn to seal their identity. But, a dark cloud is on the horizon in the form of Stan's proposal that they eliminate the middleman and catch the fish as well as sell them, to make a higher profit. But, they neglect to consider the cost of a boat, the fact that they are inexperienced boatmen and fisherman, the fact that some of their fish are probably caught exclusively in other waters, and, most relevant to this film, they are clumsy at renovating an old boat. They have no fear that the task of finding and fixing up an old boat will destroy their tranquil lives. They find such a boat at Joe's Junk Yard, run by a clean-shaven Billy Gilbert, as Joe, who claims that the boat just needs a few holes plugged to make it seaworthy. Strangely, they keep the boat where it lay during their renovation, perhaps because they have no other place to put it.........Initially, Ollie concentrates on giving it a fresh coat of paint, and, of course, gets half of it on himself, especially his face. Stan fills the boat with water to locate the holes. But , strangely, the holes don't leak water until Ollie starts looking for them. They engage in a water fight or 2, using buckets and hoses. Soon, Stan has a very black eye. The other eye will also be blackened after he commits a couple more blunders, like sawing a cut through the main mast when Ollie is on a ladder, painting the mast. Of course, he takes quite a tumble.........When they think they have fixed up the boat well enough, they hitch the trailer to their car, to take it for a trial run. Unfortunately, this trial never happens. I will leave you to see what happens to close out the film.......You can see the film at YouTube : colorized or B&W.