One of Billy Dooley's series of comedies shorts released through Paramount in the mid-twenties, this features him as his white-faced, Larry Semon-style sailor, assisted by Eddie Baker and Vera Steadman and directed by old hand William Watson -- adequate in effect, if not particularly great.In this one he is told off to deliver a monkey to an officer's niece, with a note saying the animal is wild -- and through the usual misunderstandings, the note is thought to refer to Billy. Some fairly good if unexceptional comedy sequences are executed and if there is anything to be said against the series, it is that there is nothing particularly interesting about any of it: competent, and unexceptional, it still has some charm in the execution of a style of bone-breaking slapstick that has gone out of favor. If we have no reason to care about the character, well, the audience of the era liked it well enough to produce more of them.
