This L&H talkie comedy short is available in its colorized, as well as B&W forms at YouTube. It's especially appropriate for those who like to see someone looking for their hat, which is on their head, and someone repeatedly falling off a roof, and an unconventional ride through traffic, to end up squashed between 2 trolleys. A don't mean to be sarcastic. These are funny or scary gags......Some reviewers wish the initial section, where Ollie is looking for his hat, which is on his head, had been deleted, as being too simple, too extended and not being related to the rest of the screenplay. However, I think Ollie does a fine job making it interesting, then with an unexpected twist at the end. I don't understand why the 2 women present: Fay Holderness as Mrs. Hardy, and Dorothy Granger, as the maid)didn't soon tell him it was on his head. I guess they just wanted to watch him struggle with the problem. ......Stan's car ultimately proved useful, acting as an extension of their ladder , to get to the roof. However, initially, its horn scares Ollie to fall from the ladder. Also, after parking it where Ollie wanted it, it let out a flaming backfire than singed Ollie's bottom, causing his pants to smoke. Stan got a bucket of water from the fish pond, but his aim was poor, mostly soaking the rest of Ollie. Ollie would get a much better taste of that water, several times, when he fell off the roof, trying to put up a large radio aerial. Of course, Stan 'helped' him in this project. The last time he fell from the roof, it was down the chimney after he had demolished the outer portion by tying a rope around it as a safety harness for himself. It didn't work. as the chimney was poorly made. After he got to the bottom, some of the 'bricks' fell on him.........Certainly, the scariest portion of the film is the last section, where Ollie is on top of the ladder, which is resting on Stan's runaway car. The car travels down various roads, seemingly driving itself, as Stan supposedly holds the ladder steady(Didn't know they had self- driving cars in those days?). If you think about it, this couldn't happen, as Stan would have to start the motor, and the accelerator would have to remain depressed after he took his foot off. Also, there is no way Stan could have steadied that ladder alone, with Ollie on the top. Totally illogical, but spectacular to watch........The final leg of the film has Mrs. Hardy catch up with the car, after Ollie fell off in front of a bus. She wanted to tell Ollie that the repossession man just took their radio: a deflating irony. Then, with the car parked on a trolley track, Stan can't get the motor started. Eventually, the car gets squashed between 2 trolleys (How does this happen?). We end up with a car squashed so that the passenger section is raised high above the rest, with the front and back axils much closer together than usual. Quite a sight, and apparently no one was injured, and the car now runs! ........
In 1932, the film "County Hospital," also ends with their car smashed between 2 trolleys. But, their car is not as spectacularly misshapen as in this film.
