Old Tin Sides

"Old Tin Sides" is a film by a trio of men known as "A Ton of Fun" or "The Three Fattys"....not exactly the most enlightened of names! Each weighs in at over 300 pounds and the quality of their shots seem very uneven. A few are excellent but a few are not--relying on the men's girth for all the laughs...which are few and far between.

There isn't a lot of story in this one. The three are employees at a general store and through the course of their day, they keep breaking things. None of it is hilarious and the big laugh-getter was a leaking beer barrel. Again...not especially funny or clever.

One of the less inspired ideas from the low budget comedy factories was an overweight trio of comics that were billed the "Tons O' Fun". That is about the level of inspiration on this short, which gets its merriment by showing our heroes getting their ample behinds swatted. Oh, and there is the bit with the cow being milked under water and the kerosene getting blown up. And, since this is a general store plot less comedy, everyone gets hit with bags of flour. The only happy point in the whole show is it looks like everyone drowns at the end in a basement full of applejack.

Alpha Video has this short. Don't look it up.