Rosina Lawrence

An ocean liner sinks off Honolulu and Allen Colby, heir to millions, is presumed dead, but local sleuth Charlie Chan is not so sure and flies to San Francisco to investigate further.

Arriving in the cow town of Brushwood Gulch, our heroes attempt to deliver the deed to a gold mine, as it was bequeathed to a deceased prospector’s daughter. A larcenous saloon keeper (James Finlayson) diverts them instead to his wife, a brassy saloon chirp who enacts the role of grieving daughter. Once this duplicity is exposed, the two tender heels must retrieve the deed and rescue the rightful heiress. Unadulterated Laurel & Hardy fun, spiced with surrealistic gags and sparkling musical interludes, including an Oscar®-nominated score by Marvin Hatley. The review in New Yorker magazine declared the picture to be “leisurely in the best sense; you adjust to a different rhythm and come out feeling relaxed as if you’d had a vacation.

An Iowa girl comes to Hollywood and achieves stardom with the help of a publicity man. Laurel and Hardy play themselves as actors on the set.

This slapstick comedy farce is set in a maternity ward, where nurses-in-training Kitty and Lena reluctantly come into possession of a cute baby. The kid's mother, a nightclub dancer, doesn't want her public to know that she's married to her partner, so she prevails upon the women to take care of the baby "temporarily." Naturally, the presence of a squealing infant in the apartment of two bachelor girls results in all sorts of gossip and innuendo.