It's fairly easy to understand why this Mutt & Jeff cartoon has fallen into obscurity. Our two heroes are floating on a raft and land on an island populated by Black cannibals. While Jeff is judging a beauty contest, Mutt is stuck in a cage waiting for the butcher to come for dinner.

The technical work is very good. The animation is fluid and the background work is, for 1926, advanced. Given the wild popularity of Bud Fisher's comic strip, it's hardly surprising. Mutt & Jeff had been appearing in cartoons since the days Bray was thinking about putting together a cartoon factory. However, the strip itself usually concerned itself with the urban pair sneaking out from home in order to get drunk or go to the races. The movie series, however, was usually about the pair of them off in the far world. The results were mediocre at best and, as here, far better to be ignored.

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