Playing at Politics
"Alternate-language version of Chickens Come Home (1931)"
Ollie is running for mayor and an old flame threatens to blackmail him.
"Alternate-language version of Chickens Come Home (1931)"
Ollie is running for mayor and an old flame threatens to blackmail him.
Stan Laurel
Stan
Oliver Hardy
Oliver
Enrique Acosta
Hadji Ali
Regurgitator
María Calvo
Abraham J. Cantú
Magician
James Finlayson
Criado
Carmen Granada
Señora Laurel
Charlie Hall
Elevator Operator
Ollie is running for mayor and an old flame threatens to blackmail him.
An enjoyable oddity by Laurel and Hardy, in a Hal Roach experiment, in which entire versions of films were shot in other languages, with the stars learning their lines phonetically, to take advantage of foreign markets, before dubbing became the standard (and cheaper) way of doing things. From 'Laurel and Hardy: The Essential Collection: The Sound Films from the Hal Roach Studios'.
A modern retelling of Shakespeare's classic comedy about two pairs of lovers with different takes on romance and a way with words.
Nutbourne College, an old established, all-boys, boarding school is told that another school is to be billeted with due to wartime restrictions. The shock is that it's an all-girls school that has been sent. The two head teachers are soon battling for the upper hand with each other and the Ministry. But a crisis (or two) forces them to work together.
Stan and Ollie join the French Foreign Legion after Ollie's sweetheart rejects him.
Paramutual Pictures wants to know where all the money is going so they hire Morty to be their spy. Morty works for Mr. Sneak and gets a job in the mail room so that he can have access to the lot. But all that Morty ever finds is that he can cause havoc no matter what he does.
Zequi and Lucy are about to get married. Although he promises not to overdo it during the bachelor party, things get out of control.
After NBA star Kevin Durant switches talent with 16 year old Brian, the teenager becomes the star of his high school team, but Durant starts struggling and eventually learns an important lesson.
An uptight advertising exec has his entire life in a filofax organizer which mistakenly ends up in the hands of a friendly convict who poses as him.
A medicine man is sent looking for the son of his tribal king, and brings back an American golfer and a host of goons intent on keeping him in the golf tournament.
Firefighter Charlie Chaplin is tricked into letting a house burn by an owner who wants to collect on the insurance.
A 36-year-old meek woman realizes that there’s younger people trying to outpace her doing much less, so she makes a risky change by removing her filter.