SPOILERS: This rare short is, as a medium, NOT well done. The story, such as it is, starts with two sailors (gobs) swabbing a deck and knocking each other down. One is a Greek sailor played by George Givot with a silly accent (funny he was born in Nebraska but I guess he needed a gimmick. His best film was of all things "Lady And The Tramp" where he was the voice of Tony, the Italian waiter that brings spaghetti to the two dogs on a first date) and the other sailor has a bad French accent and is played by Charles Judels. Now Judels was born in Amsterdam so I guess he did at least hear some European accents growing up. He made lots of films as a character actor (140+) and one of his best roles was as the voice of Stromboli in Disney's Pinocchio.
Back to the plot these guys get their ships' Captain's uniform wet when they knock him down (comedy can be so messy) and are sent to the city to get it properly cleaned. Well both these gobs have eyes for just one girl, Lulu (Olive Borden, once a silent film leading lady, her best role John Ford's THREE BAD MEN. And she was SUNRISE's George O'Brien girlfriend until his career took off and he dumped her.) Well Lulu is so popular that when there's a knock at her door she asks who it is so she can put the visitor's photo in her picture frame (she stores them in the couch, don't ask). Well as the gobs arrive one by one they get stuck into the closet until her husband arrives and wants to clean house.
Next scene is at a bar where Shemp Howard of Three Stooges fame is cast as "Club patron (uncredited)" and he looses his girl after the waiter says a Captain in the back room wants his girl. Turns out he wants ALL the pretty girls and it's not a captain but one of our gobs wearing the Captain's newly cleaned dress whites.
Well it seems as if 17m has just dragged by and the only high points are getting to see the lovely Olive Borden for a few more minutes. Look her up on Google, she had one of those comet careers. She soared to the heavens as a minor star in several silent features, got dumped and made a few sound shorts and Z grade films before alcoholism claimed her at the ripe old age of 41.
Back to the plot these guys get their ships' Captain's uniform wet when they knock him down (comedy can be so messy) and are sent to the city to get it properly cleaned. Well both these gobs have eyes for just one girl, Lulu (Olive Borden, once a silent film leading lady, her best role John Ford's THREE BAD MEN. And she was SUNRISE's George O'Brien girlfriend until his career took off and he dumped her.) Well Lulu is so popular that when there's a knock at her door she asks who it is so she can put the visitor's photo in her picture frame (she stores them in the couch, don't ask). Well as the gobs arrive one by one they get stuck into the closet until her husband arrives and wants to clean house.
Next scene is at a bar where Shemp Howard of Three Stooges fame is cast as "Club patron (uncredited)" and he looses his girl after the waiter says a Captain in the back room wants his girl. Turns out he wants ALL the pretty girls and it's not a captain but one of our gobs wearing the Captain's newly cleaned dress whites.
Well it seems as if 17m has just dragged by and the only high points are getting to see the lovely Olive Borden for a few more minutes. Look her up on Google, she had one of those comet careers. She soared to the heavens as a minor star in several silent features, got dumped and made a few sound shorts and Z grade films before alcoholism claimed her at the ripe old age of 41.
