Wild Poses
Spanky's parents take their reluctant boy to get his portrait taken by a prissy photographer.
Spanky's parents take their reluctant boy to get his portrait taken by a prissy photographer.
Matthew Beard
Stymie
Tommy Bond
Tommy
Jerry Tucker
Jerry
George McFarland
Spanky
Oliver Hardy
Baby
Stan Laurel
Baby
Gay Seabrook
Gay Treacy (Spanky's Mom)
Emerson Treacy
Emerson Treacy (Spanky's Dad)
Franklin Pangborn
Otto Phocus
Spanky's parents take their reluctant boy to get his portrait taken by a prissy photographer.
This 'Our Gang' short with a cameo by Laurel and Hardy was a nice bonus on my Laurel and Hardy boxed set, as Otto Phocus tries his darnedest to take a family portrait of Spanky and his parents, and all hell breaks loose. One of the Gang's best shorts, in fact.
Stan and Ollie join the French Foreign Legion after Ollie's sweetheart rejects him.
Although they are successful fishmongers, Stan convinces Ollie that they should become fishermen too, but making a boat seaworthy isn't an easy task.
Street musicians Stan and Ollie have no success earning money in the dead of winter in a bad neighborhood. Their instruments are destroyed in an argument with a woman, but their luck seems to turn when Stan finds a wallet.
Two families embark on a pleasant Sunday picnic but manage to run into a variety of issues with their temperamental automobile. Each incident requires repeated exits and reboardings by Laurel, Hardy, their wives and grouchy, gout-ridden Uncle Edgar.
Down and out Stan and Ollie beg for food from a friendly old lady who provides them with sandwiches. While eating, they overhear the lady's landlord tell her he's going to throw her out because she can't pay her mortgage. They don't realize that the old lady is really rehearsing for a play. Stan and Ollie decide to help the old lady by selling their car. During the auction a drunk puts a wallet in Stan's pocket. Ollie accuses Stan of robbing the old lady, but when the truth is revealed Stan takes revenge on Ollie.
Oliver is making plans to marry his sweetheart Dulcy with Stan as his best man, but the plans are thwarted when Dulcy's father sees a picture of Ollie and forbids the marriage. The couple plan to elope, and run away to a Justice of the Peace. After typical Laurel and Hardy blundering, they manage to sneak the girl away from her father's house.
A shipowner intends to scuttle his ship on its last voyage to get the insurance money. Charlie, a tramp in love with the owner's daughter, is grabbed by the captain and promises to help him shanghai some seamen. The daughter stows away to follow Charlie. Charlie assists in the galley and attempts to serve food during a gale.
Stan and Ollie arrive as new inmates at a prison after apparently taking part in a hold-up raid, a raid they tell a prison officer they were only watching. The usual mayhem ensues.
While changing clothes in a getaway car, escaped convicts Stan and Ollie mistakenly put on each other's pants. They spend the rest of the film trying to exchange pants in various unlikely settings.
Laurel and Hardy try to entertain a female neighbor, unbeknown to Hardy’s wife.