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Release date 29th December 1933
Country : USA
Running time : 68 mins
Genre : Comedy
Starring Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy
Screenplay by Frank Craven
Directed by William A. Seiter
Stan and Ollie want to go to the Chicago
convention of the fraternal organisation the Sons of the Desert.
Ollie's wife though won't let him go so he pretends to be ill and says
Stan will go with him to Honolulu for his health, instead they go to
the convention. Unfortunately the liner returning people from Honolulu
flounders in a typhoon, another fine mess is clearly in sight.
The best of the Laurel and Hardy
features from the peak of their career it works well in the extended
form unlike some of the features which tend to be a bit disjointed or
have musical interludes without the Boys as in their operetta films.
Special praise must be extended to Charley Chase who gives a delightful
performance as an obnoxious convention goer.
Chase's cameo appearance
was reciprocated by Stan and Ollie in one of the comedian's last shorts
for Hal Roach : On the Wrong Trek (1936)
DVD
available from Universal Home Video in R2 :
http://www.amazon.co.uk/
(comparison of German R2 and R1 editions)
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Written content copyright Derek McLellan,2005.
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