Air Raid Wardens

It's World War II, and Stan and Ollie want to join the Armed Forces to help fight the enemy. It's a wonder they haven't received their draft notices way before 1943, but then, that's Laurel and Hardy. They try the Navy, then the Army and then the Marines. They're turned down by all the services.

Just when they are starting to feel like losers, they see the ad for Homefront duty. Through a friend, Dan Madison (Stephen McNally) they get to be air raid wardens. Well, naturally they bungle that job In some preparedness tests. But even after they get ushered out of the Air Raid Warden service, the boys become heroes.

They uncover the Nazi plot to blow up the new magnesium plant about to open in their town. And they coral that sinister culprit, Eustace Middling, who is a spy. Donald Meek always gets some laughs when he plays these tough guys or bad guys, even when not in and Laurel and Hardy film.

This is not among the better films of the comedy duo, but it's has a few laughs. Both men are showing their age some - in their early 50s.