During the 1930s, stage comic Tom Howard made a series of shorts for Educational Pictures. While I found many of them to be quite funny, they weren't particularly successful and Howard's foray into films was brief and never resulted in full-length movies.
When the film begins, Howard's alarm goes off and his wife begins haranguing him to get up and go to work. It's pretty obvious they don't have a happy marriage and she keeps talking about how her first husband, Oscar, was a better man.
When Howard does arrive at work, he's fired. While he got to work in plenty of time, he apparently forgot to come the previous two days! He knows what this will mean...the wife's complaints about him and praise of her first husband will be worse! So, he brings a couple friends with him...hoping she'll be less nasty when they are there.
One of the friends turns out to look a lot like Oscar...and Howard has had enough. He gets these friends to return at night to steal Oscar's ashes and rid them of his presence. But when they arrive, they find a real burglar in the house. Hilarity ensues....though not nearly as much as in some of Howard's other films.
When the film begins, Howard's alarm goes off and his wife begins haranguing him to get up and go to work. It's pretty obvious they don't have a happy marriage and she keeps talking about how her first husband, Oscar, was a better man.
When Howard does arrive at work, he's fired. While he got to work in plenty of time, he apparently forgot to come the previous two days! He knows what this will mean...the wife's complaints about him and praise of her first husband will be worse! So, he brings a couple friends with him...hoping she'll be less nasty when they are there.
One of the friends turns out to look a lot like Oscar...and Howard has had enough. He gets these friends to return at night to steal Oscar's ashes and rid them of his presence. But when they arrive, they find a real burglar in the house. Hilarity ensues....though not nearly as much as in some of Howard's other films.
