A Trailer Tragedy (1940) Poster

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6/10
Vacation
boblipton18 October 2019
Edgar Kennedy and wife Vivian Oakland are taking a vacation in their trailer, while her father, Billy Franey drive..... until it turns out Billy didn't mail in the latest auto payment, so it's repossessed and they have to park the trailer in a trailer camp, courtesy of the Auto Club.... until it turns out Billy didn't mail that check either. At least they still have the trailer.

This is Edgar's backup family in his RKO shorts series. It ran from 1933 through his death in 1948, and featured Edgar's temperamental fireworks, capped off with his 'slow burn.' This one is ornamented by a couple of clowns from his days at the Hal Roach sstudio: Tiny Sandford, who always played cops for the comic, even though he might play a musketeer for Douglas Fairbanks; and Charlie Hall, a graduate of the Karno troupe like Chaplin and Stan Laurel, always the pugnacious little guy willing to battle with everyone. He's a lot of fun here fr a standard, funny episode.
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5/10
It's always the wrong people who travel.
mark.waltz18 May 2021
Warning: Spoilers
The best way to get to know your family or friends is to travel with them. Especially in-laws. While riding in a trailer, Edgar Kennedy and wife Vivien Oakland are interrupted by the heavy breaking of her father, and he is sudden appearance of the finance company to repossess their car. Thanks to her father's forgetting to mail out some checks, his bills did not get paid, and that. This causes Edgar's slow burn to go into overtime, and while he always loses his temper, he's always the victim of violence. A moderately funny two reeler, but no real belly laughs outside of ironic ones.
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