The film that concluded Laurel & Hardy's four year sojourn with Fox did good business and is bland and unmemorable rather than actually bad.
Supposedly set in Mexico the production plainly never left Burbank and the title is misleading (SLIGHT SPOILERS COMING:) since only Stan goes into the bullring, and then only briefly at the conclusion (although admittedly he's playing two matadors. Yep, it's the old chestnut about his path crossing that of his exact double, prompting the obvious comment by Richard Lane "I didn't think it was possible that there was another face like that in all the world")!
It all feels desperately padded out to qualify - at just 61 minutes - as a feature (including bullfighting footage from 'Blood and Sand'), and the scenes recycled from earlier, far better films (when you see a bowl of eggs on a barroom counter, for example, you know exactly what's coming) serve to remind you what subtle comedians the boys were in their prime.
Brief pleasures, however, include a scarily staring-eyed, but underused, carnival mask; and if you've stayed with it to the end, it concludes with probably the most ghoulish sight gag they ever shot.
Supposedly set in Mexico the production plainly never left Burbank and the title is misleading (SLIGHT SPOILERS COMING:) since only Stan goes into the bullring, and then only briefly at the conclusion (although admittedly he's playing two matadors. Yep, it's the old chestnut about his path crossing that of his exact double, prompting the obvious comment by Richard Lane "I didn't think it was possible that there was another face like that in all the world")!
It all feels desperately padded out to qualify - at just 61 minutes - as a feature (including bullfighting footage from 'Blood and Sand'), and the scenes recycled from earlier, far better films (when you see a bowl of eggs on a barroom counter, for example, you know exactly what's coming) serve to remind you what subtle comedians the boys were in their prime.
Brief pleasures, however, include a scarily staring-eyed, but underused, carnival mask; and if you've stayed with it to the end, it concludes with probably the most ghoulish sight gag they ever shot.