This entry in the "Blondes and Redheads" short series is a very funny, fast moving comedy about two girls who believe that the violin player coming into their apartment building is a gangster. The funny thing is that it is pretty obvious that this nebbishy man (Grady Sutton) is about as gangsta as Liberace! He's there to give the real gangster (Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams) some violin lessons so 'Big Boy' can put the move on one of the two girls. Blonde Carol Tevis is as dumb as they come, the queen of the malapropism, while redhead June Brewster is smart and sassy. Don't confuse these two for Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes", however, because anybody who thinks that milquetoast Sutton is a hit-man needs their eyes checked, their brain diagnosed and their gaydar operated on. Going out to lunch with the two girls and Williams, Sutton is assumed by the big mobster on campus (Dewey Robinson) to be a top hit-man, so he's hired for a special project right in the restaurant's mens room. Ordered to put a victim "to sleep", Sutton prepares to play his violin but somehow ends up with a machine gun in his hands. A fight breaks out and all hilarity follows. Within 20 minutes, you've laughed so hard (especially when the drunken victim staggers around the restaurant after everybody thinks he's been executed) that you might think that a hit has been placed on you! While RKO had a large comedy shorts department, some of their Edgar Kennedy/Leon Errol films do not hold up that well. However, this entry in the "Blondes and Redheads" series is very funny, and being the first that I've seen from a four episode DVD from Oldies, I am hoping that will continue. George Stevens, a legend in the directing field, cut his teeth on these shorts, moving on to low budget features and comedy's with Wheeler and Woolsey, promoted up to Katharine Hepburn and Ginger Rogers before getting later classics like "A Place in the Sun" and "Giant". For this one, I say, bravo man, you done good!
