A Polo Phony (1941) User Reviews

A Horse Is A Horse, Of Course

[boblipton · 5/10 · 22 September 2024]

To earn a $1500 bonus, salesman Leon Errol must get a contract. The only way he can do that is to join a polo club that the company's owner is a member of. He fakes up newspaper clippings easily enough, but now he needs a horse.

Errol does a considerable part of this movie with a mustache and with his 'Lord Epping' voice, always a lot of fun. There's a long sequence in the middle of this in which he tries to buy a couple of horses, one of which sags in the middle, and the other which he fouls up saddling and bridling. Good fun.

Other fondly recalled comics of the era, James C. Morton, Charlie Hall, Jack Rice, and Bud Jamison appear.

No matter his name here, Leon Errol returns to playing Uncle Matt and Lord Epping.

[mark.waltz · 7/10 · 27 November 2020]

The basic premise of this Leon Errol two reeler is inconsequential with his impersonation of a polo champion while trying to make a sale for his irritable employer so he can get a promotion. Like his role in the "Mexican Spitfire" series, Errol spends half the time imitating another person, in this case an eccentric English nobleman.

Errol could do this type of part in his sleep with his mimicking abilities. Of course everything that can go wrong does go wrong and Errol's character creates more damage than his efforts to make a sale. The cast here is entirely male so there's no nagging wife, no sultry femme fatale and no shocked old woman. This puts all the focus on Errol's talents, and the result is one of his best shorts.