Little Daddy

LITTLE DADDY is one of the Our Gang comedy shorts put out by Hal Roach in the early 1930s. This is one of the weaker efforts, I thought, purely because it's not as funny as some of the others I've seen, such as the hilarious HONKEY DONKEY.

This one has a fairly serious story about a kid being taken into care due to neglect and the efforts of the other gang members to prevent it. Farina and Stymie get most of the screen time and a fair amount of monologues between them, but humour is surprisingly lacking in their dialogue so that this feels like a drama at times. The others don't get too much of a look in, although there's a fun gag with a kid singing in Charley Chase's voice.