The reunion of college alumni brings chaos to the campus and two marriages where the little wifey seems to be much younger than the goofy husband. College professor Hugh Herbert, working for his alma mater, is a strange character (did Hugh Herbert ever play anybody normal?) who is highly active on campus, oddly respected and awaits pals Walter Abel and Charles Butterworth for their reunion. Dizzy but straight laced wife Una Merkel decides that she loves old beau Abel more than Herbert, and confides to both Butterworth and Abel's socially ambitious wife Edith Atwater, creating all sorts of nonsensical confusion. The alumni somehow end up on the field of the big football game, everyone gets drunk, and the current students fear that they will end up exactly like the alumni. Oh, then there's pompous senator Walter Catlett, an alumnus whose attempts to be a role model for the current student body, only brings him ridicule.
Dated humor may keep younger audiences from finding anything funny, but this does point out the silliness of certain long standing ivy league school traditions. The comedy is juvenile yet sexually subtle in nature, filled with some amusing innuendos and double entendres. It's fortunately extremely short, seeming more like an overlong short with its usage of popular character actors in the leads, and certainly stretches out its running time to appeal to a lesser discriminating audience. Merkel's outlandish southern accent gets to be grating after a while, but not as outrageous as Herbert's antics which make him seem either like a forty year old with a four year old mentality, or like an escapee from the nearest institution. The laughs at Catlett's expense are genuine, and certainly reflect the public opinion of many politicians today.
Dated humor may keep younger audiences from finding anything funny, but this does point out the silliness of certain long standing ivy league school traditions. The comedy is juvenile yet sexually subtle in nature, filled with some amusing innuendos and double entendres. It's fortunately extremely short, seeming more like an overlong short with its usage of popular character actors in the leads, and certainly stretches out its running time to appeal to a lesser discriminating audience. Merkel's outlandish southern accent gets to be grating after a while, but not as outrageous as Herbert's antics which make him seem either like a forty year old with a four year old mentality, or like an escapee from the nearest institution. The laughs at Catlett's expense are genuine, and certainly reflect the public opinion of many politicians today.