Fits in a Fiddle

During the 1930s, the Vaudeville team of Clark & McCullough made about three dozen shorts...films which rarely are seen today. Much of this is simply because there were better comedy shorts out there and "Fits in a Fiddle" is certainly not one of their better pictures.

When the film begins, a guy is looking for his missing bass violin. Clark has apparently bought it at an auction and refuses to talk to the guy about returning it...insisting it's his. Soon someone sees Clark and invites him to play with a band...which is odd considering they didn't wait to see if he could play (which he can't). In fact, he put a record player inside the instrument so he could fake it. Lots of hilarious situations should come of this...but don't.

While Bobby Clark was definitely the more dominant member of the team, in this film you'd never even think they're a team as McCullough has absolutely nothing to do. When someone asks Clark what his partner does, he says "He's here to hold my hat"...that and little more. As far as the humor goes, this one even manages to make the Three Stooges look sophisticated. Big jokes (?) involve Clark and the band leader smacking each other with cellos and a bomb inside the bass which explodes....none of which is particularly funny. Worth skipping unless you are a die-hard fan.