Fans regard this as the last true Laurel and Hardy film. It was their last film done for Hal Roach. It would also be the last film in which they would have significant input.
The title was a pun on the 1937 film Souls at Sea (1937), starring Gary Cooper, but the two films otherwise have nothing in common.
It's often described as two stretched out short subjects as it involved two almost non - connected plots. In the first the Boys are working in a horn factory where the noise is driving Ollie crazy. In the second they become captives of an escaped criminal on a boat. Much of the action in the latter was ad-libbed.
Within months of this film's release, both Ben Turpin and Charley Chase passed away. Laurel and Hardy veteran Harry Bernard passed away approximately six months after the release.