Dagwood does it again, dumber than ever, not only mistaking window washers for a storm, but roller skating down steps in the Bumpstead home, obviously getting a bump on that already dim noggin that makes him confuse Mr. Dithers' request for him to purchase a house with horse, becoming involved with the eccentric Hugh Herbert in the process. A 4 minute prologue of the T.V. version of the film gives away most of the plot, and I wanted to review it based just on the overlong trailer. It's a silly set-up of the ludicrous plot line that has become more juvenile with each entry. Hugh Herbert, a popular comic of the 1930's, by this time was going through too many "woo hoo's" in each role he took on, the comedy going way beyond forced. Alan Dinehart plays the villain desperate to get his hands on Dagwood's horse.
In this entry, Larry Simms' attempts to continue to look like a toddler was falling flat, and at times, there appears to be a younger stand-in for him. The funniest bits come from cute pooch Daisy and the much bigger Reggie (the horse) who are adorable together. Irving Bacon, who had quit being a postman in the previous entry to work for the water company, is miraculously back delivering the mail and seems on the verge of turning into Herbert Lom in "The Pink Panther", justifiably contemplating revenge towards his own version of Inspector Clouseau, here of course the accident prone Dagwood.
In this entry, Larry Simms' attempts to continue to look like a toddler was falling flat, and at times, there appears to be a younger stand-in for him. The funniest bits come from cute pooch Daisy and the much bigger Reggie (the horse) who are adorable together. Irving Bacon, who had quit being a postman in the previous entry to work for the water company, is miraculously back delivering the mail and seems on the verge of turning into Herbert Lom in "The Pink Panther", justifiably contemplating revenge towards his own version of Inspector Clouseau, here of course the accident prone Dagwood.