Christmas card salesmen Stan and Ollie are persuaded to help a woman (Mae Busch) spice up her loveless marriage by making her husband jealous. The spouse involved, a temperamental artist played by (Charles Middleton), is however made rather too jealous for comfort, and puts Ollie in peril when he challenges him to a duel to the death at midnight and pledges to track him "to the end of the world" if he does not show up.

Stan and Ollie discuss the challenge in a nearby bar and it occurs to them that the husband cannot know where they live, so Ollie complacently telephones him to inform him he will not be there and they both insult him. They then get drunk with a neighbor of the couple (played by Arthur Housman). The police are called and finding the artist's business card with his home address in Ollie's pocket, they take Stan and Ollie to the couple's apartment and dump them on their bed to sleep it off. They are discovered when Stan starts snoring. Pistols are produced but the wife tells Ollie she has replaced the bullets with blanks. The husband shoots at Ollie, who plays dead and the pair then run for their lives and manage to give him the slip. The film ends with Ollie sighing to the camera from the back of a horse-drawn garbage truck, after having hidden in a trash can.

Directed by Charles Rogers
Written by Stan Laurel
Frank Tashlin
Produced by Hal Roach
Starring Stan Laurel
Oliver Hardy
Mae Busch
Charles B. Middleton
Arthur Housman
Cinematography Art Lloyd
Edited by Bert Jordan
Music by Leroy Shield
Production
company
Hal Roach Studios, Inc.
Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
February 9, 1935

Cast
Stan Laurel as Stan
Oliver Hardy as Oliver
Mae Busch as Madame Pierre Gustav
Charles Middleton as Pierre Gustave
Arthur Housman as the drunk man
Noah Young as the bartender

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