THE ASTOR REVIEW

Laurel & Hardy’s best feature has the boys sneaking off to a convention while their wives think they have drowned in a shipwreck.

IMDB SYNOPSIS

So that he and Stan can sneak away to Chicago and attend the annual 'Sons of the Desert' lodge convention, Ollie pretends to be sick, and gets a doctor (who turns out to be a veterinarian) to prescribe a long ocean voyage to Hawaii. Decked out in leis and strumming ukeleles, they return home only to learn that the ship supposedly carrying them has sunk. Their hastily- contrived tale of 'ship-hiking' their way back cuts no ice with their wives, who've been at the movies watching a newsreel of the lodge's convention parade, starring... guess who?