Two Roaming Champs

The first of four two-reelers to feature former prizefighters Max Baer and "Slapsie" Maxie Rosenbloom produced for Columbia Pictures in the early 1950s. The two are former boxers who open up a detective agency, where nervous client Horace Dwiggins (Emil Sitka, who has a dual role in the short as his uncle Elmer) hires Baer to impersonate him at the reading of his late uncle's will, as he is going back to his exiled home in Africa. When the two Maxies arrive at the house, they discover that Dwiggin's relatives (including the butler and the crooked lawyer in charge of the will) are planning to kill the two as they want to split the inheritance for themselves.

Unfortunately, The short suffers from some dragged-out editing, though no fault of director Edward Bernds. The character development of the two leads takes up almost half of the film and the standard scare situations don't happen until the last five minutes. Kenneth MacDonald and Symona Boniface (who died from cancer a few weeks after filming) contribute to the short in their small roles.