Brilliant

This movie should be better known than it is. But at least the director went on to make Pirates of the Carribean etc. Here you can see his fertile visual imagination at work. The interiors of the house, the factory have a wonderful fusty feel.

Lane and Evans are a great double act in the Laurel and Hardy mould: the cunning unprincipled one and the stupid one with a good heart.

Trivia: After collaborating with Lee Evans on this film, Nathan Lane scooped Tonys galore on Broadway as Max Bialystock in the musical of The Producers. When the show was planned for London in 2004, Lane recommended Evans to play the anxious accountant Leo Bloom opposite Richard Dreyfuss. Then in a coup de theatre that might have been part of the script, Richard Dreyfuss dropped out of the production less than a week before it opened becasue of his bad health (officially). Lane was - at great expense - persuaded to fly over and reprise his Broadway success. Result: Lane and Evans together again in the West End. During the first week of the show's run at Theatre Royal Drury, a MOUSE was seen in the stalls..during the show!