Edgar Kennedy and his pal are about to finish their boat. They each plan to speak a grand speech to their horrid families and leave for lives as Somerset Maugham characters, drifting around the South Seas, Am I giving away anything by telling you that things do not work out as planned?
This one is a little too loud, a little too raucous and a little too shifting in tone to seem to my mind among the best of Edgar's THE COMMON MAN series. The arc of comic anger in a more typical work is upward, with things growing worse and worse. Here it starts out big, settles down and then another explosion. Edgar's not on a slow burn here, he's on a string of light firecrackers. It's a tougher acting assignment, and he and his able cast pull it off. I just don't find it anywhere near as funny as usual.
