ALTHOUGH THEY AREN'T specifically mentioned, it is our G.I.'s who are both the prime sales target and the moving force behind it. The desire for home ownership, once only a sort of unrealistic 'pipedream', now had become a commonplace reality. The Congress had provided the financial mechanism via affordable mortgage provisions in various G.I. Bills.
THE SHORT OPENS up in usual manner. Joe and Alice Mc Doakes (George O'Hanlon & Harker respectively) are engaged in a kitchenette debate about moving from rented apartment to a home of their own. An advertisement in the morning newspaper brings them to Andy Mc Goon (Donald Kerr) the Irishman who is the building contractor. *
THEN WE FIND a chain reaction of Joe having to go to legal representation, the financial in$titution and, finally, the local building inspection department.
AS IS THE case in many gags that we see in a comedy like these, so much of the material is obvious. The conclusion finds Joe and Alice in their new., pre-fabricated, do-it-yourself cottage. As we who know Joe so well might well have expected, the "pre-fab" parts are less than perfect in their meshing together.
SO IT IS that Writer-Director Richard L.Bare and collaborator, Writer/Actor George O'Hanlon, once again prove themselves to be the champions of that venerable relic from the Silent Screen, the Sight Gag. This Mc DOAKES installment proves this to be true, with a great Super-Sight Gag ending.
NOTE: * We must protest! Why are building contractors always portrayed as shady, shanty Irishmen? This is much in the same tradition as calling the Police Patrol Transport vehicles "Paddy Wagons!" (Please folks, we're just kidding! Please send no nasty complaint letters!)
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