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It would be interesting to know how this film came to be produced. It largely follows a kind of patent formula for Swedish lowbrow comedy that was once successful (at the box office, if not with the critics) but had become thoroughly outdated already in the mid-forties. Most of the attempts at humour fall flat, the songs are terrible, the story line is meandering and the conclusion pointless. It frequently seems that the two "stars" of this film are rather shamelessly - and with very little success - trying to copy Laurel and Hardy's act (there's even a similar "signature tune"). The result is a total mess, with a couple of genuinely funny moments. This film must have been a cinematic dinosaur already at the premiere. Points of interest: An introductory, narrated presentation of the city of Uppsala as it looked in the early fifties, and a cast with several famous Swedish comedians (mostly in bit parts).