Oliver's in trouble with his wife after missing a payment on their furniture, having given the money to Stanley, who used it instead to pay Mrs. Hardy for his room and board. At Stan's suggestion Ollie then withdraws the couple's savings from the bank to pay for the furniture and inadvertently pays virtually the whole amount at an auction for a grandfather clock which is soon crushed under a passing truck. Mrs Hardy then unintentionally causes serious injuries to Ollie requiring him to be rushed to hospital for a blood transfusion. The doctor conscripts Stan to be the unwilling blood donor. Problems occur with the transfusion and when Stan and Ollie leave the hospital they appear to have morphed into each other.
A typical Laurel and Hardy short from the Hal Roach years: a simple money worry snowballs step by step into chaos, and Stan and Ollie talk and stumble their way deeper in. The pace is quick, and the gags grow out of misunderstandings and Ollie's wounded dignity. You watch two men get everything wrong with complete seriousness.
Good for you if you enjoy early sound-era slapstick and like short, fast black-and-white comedies.
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