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In order to secretly attend a stag party in their honor, the boys urge their wives to travel ahead alone on a jointly-planned Atlantic City vacation by invoking Oliver's fake migraine as an ... Read allIn order to secretly attend a stag party in their honor, the boys urge their wives to travel ahead alone on a jointly-planned Atlantic City vacation by invoking Oliver's fake migraine as an excuse to remain behind.In order to secretly attend a stag party in their honor, the boys urge their wives to travel ahead alone on a jointly-planned Atlantic City vacation by invoking Oliver's fake migraine as an excuse to remain behind.
Spencer Bell
- Porter
- (uncredited)
Chet Brandenburg
- Cab Driver
- (uncredited)
Baldwin Cooke
- Cookie
- (uncredited)
Jean De Briac
- Dress Extra
- (uncredited)
Gracie Doll
- Midget Performer
- (uncredited)
Tiny Doll
- Midget Performer
- (uncredited)
Harry Earles
- Midget Performer
- (uncredited)
Anita Garvin
- Mrs. Laurel
- (uncredited)
Charlie Hall
- Bellboy
- (uncredited)
Jack Hill
- Railway Station Passerby
- (uncredited)
Isabelle Keith
- Mrs. Hardy
- (uncredited)
Ham Kinsey
- Railway Station Passerby
- (uncredited)
- Directors
- James W. Horne
- James Parrott(unconfirmed)
- Writers
- H.M. Walker
- Oliver Hardy(uncredited)
- Stan Laurel(uncredited)
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- TriviaThis film, along with Laughing Gravy (1930), were simultaneously produced in Spanish language versions, and the two shorts were edited together into one continuous film Los calaveras (1931). Laurel and Hardy read their lines from cue cards on which Spanish was written phonetically. At the time of early talkies, dubbing was not yet perfected. The same was done for a French language version, Les carottiers (1932).
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Introductory Card: Mr Hardy is a man on great care, caution, and discretion - Mr. Laurel is married too.
- Alternate versionsSpanish and French language versions of this film were also produced simultaneously. Laurel and Hardy read from cue cards with their lines written phonetically in the appropriate languages. At the time of early talkies, the process of dubbing was not yet perfected.
- ConnectionsAlternate-language version of Laughing Gravy (1930)
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Amusing but quite a lacklustre short
Laurel and Hardy and their wives are due to go away for a trip. However when Hardy's pals call him and tell him of a party in his honour he feigns illness and sends them on ahead of him and Laurel. But making excuses to his wife and getting away with it is only the start of the problem when it comes to actually getting ready to go out.
In what seems to be more an exercise in patience rather than a short film, the duo go through the motions in a film that doesn't do them justice when viewed along with other shorts. The plot's high point is a sequence where Hardy tries to get Laurel's boot (which he has mistaken for his own) first onto his foot and then, realising his mistake, off his foot. This is the guts of the film and is easily the funniest bit but it isn't very good. It goes on too long and, save the great work in delivery, isn't funny enough to carry the film in the way it is expected to.
The duo try hard and both Laurel and Hardy do their well known thing to the best of their abilities but the material and the gags simply let them down. As real troopers they do their best and they are still worth watching the short for (I can't help but love Hardy's looks!) but they are not well served. The support cast (the wives) are good despite having little of consequence to do it is nice to see Laurel and Hardy given wives who look pretty as opposed to battleaxe types (or themselves!)
Overall I feel that Laurel and Hardy are always worth watching, but this would be a poor place to start. A short film that goes through the motions with no really good gags or high points.
In what seems to be more an exercise in patience rather than a short film, the duo go through the motions in a film that doesn't do them justice when viewed along with other shorts. The plot's high point is a sequence where Hardy tries to get Laurel's boot (which he has mistaken for his own) first onto his foot and then, realising his mistake, off his foot. This is the guts of the film and is easily the funniest bit but it isn't very good. It goes on too long and, save the great work in delivery, isn't funny enough to carry the film in the way it is expected to.
The duo try hard and both Laurel and Hardy do their well known thing to the best of their abilities but the material and the gags simply let them down. As real troopers they do their best and they are still worth watching the short for (I can't help but love Hardy's looks!) but they are not well served. The support cast (the wives) are good despite having little of consequence to do it is nice to see Laurel and Hardy given wives who look pretty as opposed to battleaxe types (or themselves!)
Overall I feel that Laurel and Hardy are always worth watching, but this would be a poor place to start. A short film that goes through the motions with no really good gags or high points.
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- bob the moo
- Aug 2, 2003
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