Stan and Ollie rent an unseaworthy boat called Prickly Heat that is supposed to stay moored to the dock. Later that night an escaped murderer named Nick Grainger (Richard Cramer) stows away on the boat to avoid being caught by the police. The goat they have brought to provide milk chews away at the docking line, and the boat drifts out to sea. The next day Nick confronts Stan and Ollie with a gun (which he affectionately names "Nick Jr."). Taking command over the boat he renames Ollie and Stan "Dizzy and Dopey" and tells them to make him breakfast. They have no food on board, so they decide to prepare Nick a "synthetic" breakfast made up of string, soap and whatever else they can find. Nick spies on them and realizes what they are up to, and forces them to eat the fake food. Upon noticing his trombone which he brought with him, Stan remembers Ollie's violent reaction to horns and starts to play it, resulting in Ollie going into a berserker rage and overcoming the criminal. In fact, two times Stan pauses to catch his breath while the overheating trombone starts to emit smoke, and Ollie has to call to him to keep playing the horn, in order for him to become enraged enough to keep fighting Nick. Eventually Ollie shoves Nick down the companionway amid an avalanche of debris, finally knocking Nick out cold. Stan becomes entangled in the heap and his trombone gets twisted into a large circular shape like a French horn. When the police arrive in another boat to take Nick into custody, Stan demonstrates to them how he got Hardy powered up --— by playing the mangled trombone. The result: Ollie again flies into a blind horn-induced rage and mindlessly assaults one of the cops, the boys get arrested and are thrown into jail in the same cell that Nick is in. The audience is left to imagine what horrors await the boys when the vengeful Nick regains consciousness, as Ollie irritably says his classic "here's another nice mess... " catchphrase to Stan, who starts to whimper. Cast Notes When Laurel and Hardy left the Hal Roach studio after this film, they also left behind Roach stock supporting players Charlie Hall, James Finlayson, and Harry Bernard. The film also stars Mary Gordon, who played Mrs. Hudson opposite Basil Rathbone's Sherlock Holmes. The film