They may not have had leading roles, but this film seems to be seen as a film starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, it is even included in their full film collection. Basically a California family receives a notice that they need to make an immediate payment or be forced out their home. So the Grandpa, young Orville (Glenn Tryon) and his sister (Molly O'Day, aka Sue O'Neil) all get on the one bike to get on the train for Hollywood to deal with it. The Grandpa falls off, they are left alone, and almost immediately Orville gets into a scrape looking like he has recently robbed a bank, and he is running away from the cops with a woman, who is actually a man in drag. In the hotel room they hide in, a Hotel Detective (Hardy) seems to be dressing up too, his wife Em (Edna Murphy) obviously isn't happy when she sees it. The bank robber soon shows up in the hotel, takes a knocked out Orville's clothes an dresses in female clothes to get away, and the Detective assumes he is the robber, and a chases leads them into the room of a Hotel Guest (Laurel, in what looks an added and pretty grainy scene), and ending with Orville having a spraying fire hose in his trousers. Also starring Charlotte Mineau as Mother and Rube Clifford as Father. It has some good comedic moments, and Laurel and Hardy, with the limited time they have on screen, do well in this silent film. Worth watching!
Review of 45 Minutes from Hollywood
