Saps At Sea

This was the last film Laurel and Hardy made with Hal Roach before breaking away in the name of artistic freedom, but things didn't go as planned for the successful comic duo. They were also separated from several of the many actors, such as James Finlayson and Charlie Hall, who added life to their features. SAPS AT SEA is an uneven picture. In one sense, it offers some of the duo's most ingenuous routines, but, when the four writers fail to come up with a good gag, the comedy lapses into forced slapstick. Thin plot has Laurel and Hardy as employees at a horn manufacturing company, their jobs being to test the horns. When Hardy suffers a nervous breakdown because o...