Stan LaurelStan Laurel and Oliver HardyOliver Hardy are thrown into a cell to await execution at sunrise. Stan discovers that he can strum his bed springs and play it like a harp. The music he plays is "The World is Waiting for the Sunrise".
On the set of this film, Oliver HardyOliver Hardy met his future wife, script supervisor [?] Virginia Lucille Jones.
The movie is at least a partial remake of Laurel & Hardy's four-reel comedy Beau Hunks. Charles MiddletonCharles Middleton plays a hostile camp commandant in both movies.
This is Stan LaurelStan Laurel and Oliver HardyOliver Hardy's only non-Hal RoachHal Roach-produced film in which Stan had a hand in the writing and editing (as he had in the Roach films).