Bum Voyage (1934) Online

Thelma and Patsy are out in the snow on Friday the 13th when a woman throws an envelope with 2 tickets for a cruise to Bermuda out the window. Little do they know she is the keeper of a gorilla! Fans of man in a gorilla suit have to have this one. Thelma takes off her dress and gets down to a short slip and stockings. She looks beautiful as always. After they get a swank stateroom the captain makes them get the gorilla back in his cage. Patsy finds a gorilla suit in a trunk and because the captain wants Thelma to perform with the gorilla, Patsy ends up in the gorilla suit and does the famous mirror door bit with the guy in the gorilla suit (shades of the Marx Bros!). Thelma does some great physical comedy with the man in the gorilla suit and Patsy ends up with Thelma and the gorilla in a rowboat all hitching their way back to land. Fun slapstick by two great women.

Bum Voyage (1934)

** 1/2 (out of 4)

Hal Roach short with Thelma Todd and Patsy Kelly finding ship tickets so they naturally take the room but what they don't know is that there's a gorilla already there. This is probably the best short I've seen from the duo but most of that credit should go towards the man in the gorilla suit. He manages to give me quite a few laughs and certainly more than Kelly.

None of the Kelly/Todd shorts have found their way to DVD but Turner Classic Movies does a good job at showing a few each year.