One year after The Dover Boys, Columbia made a short entitled The Rocky Road to Ruin. This short is extremely similar to The Dover Boys. The damsel in distress looks sort of like Dora. Handsome Harry looks remarkably similar to Tom. The villian's name is Snievley Whiplash. The name is sounds remarkably similar to Snidley Whiplash but he looks exactually like Dan Backslide. John McLeish wrote the story. McLeish was also the narrator in The Dover Boys a yearlier so he clearly was aware of it.
He looks remarkably similar to Dan Backslide.
Here is Tom- I mean Handsome Harry and the heroine.
The villain's name isn't “Snievley Whiplash,” it's Phineas Filch, and the hero is Waldo Stout, not “Handsome Harry.”
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