Pardon My Berth Marks is the fourth short subject starring American comedian Buster Keaton made for Columbia Pictures. Keaton made a total of ten films for the studio between 1939 and 1941.
Elmer is a newspaper reporter who boards a train and innocently becomes involved with a mobster's wife.
Columbia remade this film in 1947 (with Harry Von Zell) as Rolling Down to Reno.