User reviews

This short comedy has some good moments during the kind of complicated mix-up that Leon Errol's short comedies often have. This is not one of the best ones, since it takes more time than usual to set things up, and then even after that it has some slow stretches. Errol himself is as good as always with his comic over-reactions to everything, but the story does not give him as much to work with as do those in some of his other movies.

The story has Leon trying to help out his son, who has recently become engaged. There is a series of misunderstandings that build up as things move along, and they do produce a couple of funny sequences. At other times, though, there is not really enough material to be entertaining. It's not bad, but Errol made a lot of other two-reelers that are more amusing than "Oil's Well That Ends Well".