Bedlam of Beards

I usually begin my reviews with a synopsis, but not this time, because this is as absurd and sense-free as any of Clark & McCullough's shorts; the whole thing is an excuse to go into a door-slamming routine in which McCullough, Clark, McCullough, Hayes -- who's credited as George Hays -- and probably McCullough, all wearing beards, exit through the same door to sneak into pretty maid Vivian Fields' room. The logic in setting it up, as usual, is specious. If you can ignore that, the routine is pretty good, worthy of Friz Freleng directing Bugs Bunny.

This probably played for fourteen minutes, then someone noticed that the Production Code had clamped down, and pulled it.

The sound quality of the print to this short on YouTube is really poor....be sure to turn up your volume!

George 'Gabby' Hayes (billed incorrectly as 'Hays' in the credits), the famous cowboy sidekick, plays a rich guy who has been kidnapped. When Clark finds out there is a reward for the bearded man's return, he dresses McCullough up as the rich guy to try to get the money. At the same time, the kidnapper dresses up like the bearded man and goes to his house to rob them. And, soon the kidnapped man arrives. What's Clark to do? Well, he dons a beard and now there are four bearded guys running about the place. If all this sounds hilarious, then you are seriously mistaken. But it is passable and mildly entertaining in a low-brow way. Not among the team's best but watchable.