Saps at Sea

Saps at Sea is a 1940 American film directed by Gordon Douglas, distributed by United Artists, and Laurel and Hardys last film produced by Hal Roach Studio.

Stan and Ollie rent an unseaworthy boat called Prickly Heat that is supposed to stay moored to the dock. Later that night an escaped murderer named Nick Grainger Richard Cramer stows away on the boat to avoid being caught by the police. The goat which they have brought to provide milk but which is evidently just a billy goat, since it has big long horns, and is referred to as he chews away at the docking line, and the boat drifts out to sea. The next day Nick confronts Stan and Ollie with a gun which he affectionately names Nick Jr., taking command over the boat and tells them to make him breakfast. They have no food on board, so they decide to prepare Nick a synthetic breakfast made up of string, soap and whatever else they can find. Nick spies on them and realizes what they are up to, and forces them to eat the fake food. Stan becomes inspired and starts to play his trombone and Ollie starts to go crazy and overcomes the criminal. In fact, a few times Laurel pauses to catch his breath and it starts to smoke out of the trombone and Hardy has to call to him to resume, to maintain his animal rage until he finally knocks Nick out cold.When the police eventually arrive in another boat to take Nick into custody, Laurel demonstrates to them how he got Hardy powered upby playing the mangled trombone. The result Hardy again flies into a blind horninduced rage and mindlessly assaults one of the cops, the boys get arrested, also, and they are thrown into jail in the same cell that Nick is in. The audience is left to imagine what assorted horrors await the boys when the vengeful Nick regains consciousness. ........

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