Edgar Kennedy gets the award for the single most horrible use of blackface in a movie. It's not that it's just tacky. It's completely unrealistic, and in 1942, I doubt any black cook dressed up like Mammy from "Gone with the Wind". He takes a job as a security guard and his first assignment is guarding a house where stolen money is hidden.
"Beulah, you've got a black eye", the female crook says. "You mean a white eye!" her partner says. Somehow, he gets out of the black makeup as the cops arrive, and looks even funnier. The only really good thing about this ridiculously awful short is the talking parrot. We're supposed to believe that he fits into the real black cooks (Lillian Randolph) outfits, being twice her size. I really wouldn't mind if this one somehow got tossed in a grease fire as not only is it just filled with bad taste, but just plain bad as well.
"Beulah, you've got a black eye", the female crook says. "You mean a white eye!" her partner says. Somehow, he gets out of the black makeup as the cops arrive, and looks even funnier. The only really good thing about this ridiculously awful short is the talking parrot. We're supposed to believe that he fits into the real black cooks (Lillian Randolph) outfits, being twice her size. I really wouldn't mind if this one somehow got tossed in a grease fire as not only is it just filled with bad taste, but just plain bad as well.
