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Turnabout
boblipton26 November 2017
Dorothy Granger is tired of husband Leon Erroll coming in drunk with stockings in his pockets after spending Thursday evening "with the boys." She announces she will go out. When she does so, Leon spends the evening at home worrying, until a friend shows up with a couple of girls and they get plastered.... and Miss Granger returns earlier than expected.

Dorothy Granger gets more of a part than she usually does in her usual role as Erroll's wife in his series for RKO. She had entered movies at the dawn of sound and had been one of the earlier members of the Screen Actors Guild; perhaps that's why her career never soared. Nevertheless, her good looks and fine comic timing kept her well in demand. Her continuing role in this series would not last much longer. It would end later the same year with Leon Erroll's death.
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7/10
When wifey's away, the hubby must play, but so does the wifey!
mark.waltz11 May 2018
Warning: Spoilers
Nearing the end of his life, rubber legged Leon Errol continued to star in the same type of comedy shorts he had been doing for well over a decade: the scoundrel, hen-pecked husband who is trying to get away with something without his wife's knowledge and gets into even more trouble when he gets caught. Here, wife Dorothy Granger is tired of sitting home alone on Thursday nights so Leon can go out and get drunk with his pals, doing only what God knows what. Even with the alleged gift of a pair of silk stockings (obviously not the grand prize as he claims in a drunken stupor), Errol can't convince his wife that what he was doing was honorable. So Granger comes up with an agreement: she will allow him to have his night out and she will have her own night out as well, not telling him where she is going or what she is doing, even buying a glamorous and obviously expensive new dress. Errol is so let down by his wife's sudden stroke of independence that he decides to stay home, but since Errol can't attend his own party, his pal brings the party to him, along with two bimbo's. Granger feels guilty and decides to come home from her night out, leading to all sorts of deception and a hilarious conclusion. This is a fun little wind-down to the series of shorts (the big screen sitcom) that Errol and Granger had been doing together for years, and it is quite a lot of fun, although I'm sure similar circumstances had popped up in other shorts that Errol or fellow short veteran actor Edgar Kennedy had done long before this came along.
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