Jitterbugs

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy play Stan and Ollie, a two-man band travelling through wartime America, where fuel rationing has made gasoline scarce. A chance encounter with a small-time operator named Chester Wright draws them into a scheme selling pills that are claimed to turn water into fuel, but the trick quickly falls apart and the pair end up helping a young singer, Susan Cowan, whose family has been cheated out of ten thousand dollars by a gang of swindlers. Stan and Ollie set out to get the money back.

Jitterbugs was released in 1943 by 20th Century Fox, with Malcolm St. Clair directing from a screenplay by Scott Darling and Sol M. Wurtzel producing. Vivian Blaine plays Susan, with Robert Bailey, Douglas Fowley and Noel Madison among the supporting cast. It runs seventy-five minutes and belongs to the team's run of features at the studio during the early 1940s, and it has earned one million dollars at the worldwide box office.

On IMDb the film holds a rating of 6.2 from around 1,500 votes, while on TMDB it sits at 6 out of 10 from a much smaller group of 47 voters, so audience response on both sites is generally moderate rather than enthusiastic.