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  • malcolmgsw14 December 2015
    Warning: Spoilers
    Claude Allister and Frank Pettingell star in this quota quickie made by Julius Hagen for RKO.Allister agrees to pose as a friend who is a doctor to get him out of a predicament,for which he will pay 50pounds.Allister wants to marry his girlfriend,however,her father,Pettingell disapproves.He claims to be spending time at the temperance movement,but is in fact spending time with a mistress.Pettingell gets drunk as is taken to the police station.The police then call on Allister to come to the station to examine Pettingell.He is found to be drunk and sent to the cells for the night.Allister is then abducted by gangster Ben Welden to treat a gang member.Pettingell is allowed to call someone in the Temperance society to vouch for him.Then he is allowed to go.For some reason the wounded gangster is taken to Pettingells house.Pettingell arrives back home and reveals Allister is not a doctor.Police surround the house and a gun battle ensues.However everyone is put to sleep by a broken bottle of chloroform.The police arrive and capture the gang.Allister does his silly ads routine and Pettingell is quite good as a drunk but not particularly funny.
  • Claude Allister is an impoverished upper-class twit, Pettingell the disapproving wealthy businessman with working class roots whose cute daughter is unaccountably smitten with the clueless toff. Petingell gets drunk with his mistress while claiming to be at a temperance meeting, and Allister poses as a doctor in order to get his friend out of a jam. Much hilarity tries to ensue when their paths cross but is frustrated by a listless script that struggles for laughs. It's a lot funnier when Pettingell's doing his drunk routine - Allister's nice-but-dim act simply grates.