Call of the Cuckoo (1927)Mishaps befall a new home owner (Davidson) located next door to an insane asylum. Director:Clyde BruckmanWriter:H.M. Walker (titles) |
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Call of the Cuckoo (1927)Mishaps befall a new home owner (Davidson) located next door to an insane asylum. Director:Clyde BruckmanWriter:H.M. Walker (titles) |
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| Stan Laurel | ... |
Asylum inmate
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| Oliver Hardy | ... |
Asylum inmate
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James Finlayson | ... |
Asylum inmate
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| Charley Chase | ... |
Asylum inmate
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Max Davidson | ... |
Papa Gimplewart
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Lillian Elliott | ... |
Mama Gimplewart
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Spec O'Donnell | ... |
Love's Greatest Mistake
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Leo Willis | ... |
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Frank Brownlee | ... |
Prospective house buyer
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Edgar Dearing | ... |
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Otto Fries | ... |
Bit part
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Charlie Hall | ... |
Asylum inmate
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Fay Holderness | ... |
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Charles Meakin | ... |
House buyer
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Lyle Tayo | ... |
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Max wants to sell his home, because of the crazy neighbours. Somebody else wants to get rid of his house, too, so they swap. But that house turns out to be a chaos of installation. The lights are not connected with the right switches, gas and water are mixed up, and the floor has a list, too. During the house-warming party, it comes to a battle between two relatives, who have little respect for others property, but that's not the worst blow for Max that evening... Written by Stephan Eichenberg <eichenbe@fak-cbg.tu-muenchen.de>
Laurel and Hardy appear in supporting roles in this short Max Davidson comedy, playing two of a quartet of loons living next door to the hapless hero. I've never seen a Davidson film before or heard of him to be honest and judging by this effort, it's no surprise that he's now largely forgotten. He strokes his beard a lot and holds the side of his face but rarely does anything remotely funny. In the film he's so desperate to get away from his mentally challenged neighbours that he agrees to swap houses with a stranger. He takes his long-suffering wife and heavily freckled (and rather gormless-looking) son with him and soon finds out that the new family home is about to fall down around his ears. Everything that can collapse does so, flames come from a tap while the cooker sprays fountains of water, and the pattern on the kitchen floor disappears when Mrs Max wipes it with a mop. Despite none of these escalating series of mishaps being particularly funny, they are nearly all repeated two or three times.