Hips, Hips, Hooray!

This Wheeler&Woolsey film finds the guys selling flavored lipsticks on the street corner to make a buck. People did that sort of stuff in the Depression. They get noticed, first by cops but then by Thelma Todd and one of her salesgirls Dorothy Lee. As usual Lee pairs with Bert while Thelma Todd does some of her best vamping with Bob.

George Meeker works for Todd, but is secretly working for a rival to sabotage her store. When the boys lift some valuable securities accidentally he finds them and sics the cops on them.

The finale is a kind of Grand Prix marathon and Bert and Bob are quite inventive in their methods of overcoming obstacles.

Ruth Etting makes a guest appearance with one song in the beginning, always a treat.

The race and a sequence where they play a on by stealing an office on the fly is similar to what was done in The Sting. Maybe George Roy Hill got the idea from seeing this.

Good fun from W&W.