Stan Laurel and Oliver 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".
Jean Parker, who played Oliver Hardy's "love interest" in this picture, played his daughter in Zenobia the same year.
On the set of this film, Oliver Hardy met his future wife, script supervisor Virginia Lucille Jones.
The harp music Stan plays in his cell is played by Harpo Marx, who apparently also coached Stan on imitating his fingerings.
The movie is at least a partial remake of Laurel & Hardy's four-reel comedy Beau Hunks. Charles Middleton plays a hostile camp commandant in both movies.
This is Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy's only non-Hal Roach-produced film in which Stan had a hand in the writing and editing (as he had in the Roach films).