Beauty and the Beast

The popular husband & wife team of Guy Newall and Ivy Duke make fools of themselves in this series of vignettes depicting a dapper oaf ('The Beast', played by Newall) constantly crossing the path of Beauty Ivy Duke with catastrophic consequences; notably when sitting behind her at the theatre he absent-mindedly pulls at a lose thread on her vest (amusingly symbolised by inserts to a grinning child's doll on which the garment is becoming increasingly abbreviated), ending up with a pile of yarn at his feet.

The pair amiably breach the fourth wall at the beginning and the end by looking out from the sofa on which they've been canoodling to view the audience with suspicion; but the rather disarming good-naturedness of the piece can't distract from the fact that the frequent self-deprecating comments in the titles about what a load of old rubbish the film is describe it a bit too accurately.