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7.6/10   309 votes
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Director:
James Parrott
Writers:
Leo McCarey (story)
H.M. Walker (titles)
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Release Date:
3 November 1928 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Short more
Plot:
Stanley and Oliver, two sailors on shore leave, rent a car and go on a drive with their dates, but soon... more | add synopsis
User Comments:
a well constructed and satisfying comedy more

Cast

  (Complete credited cast)
Stan Laurel ... Stan
Oliver Hardy ... Ollie
Edgar Kennedy ... Motorist
Thelma Hill ... Brunette girl
Ruby Blaine ... Blonde girl
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Harry Bernard ... Truck driver
Chet Brandenburg ... Motorist
Baldwin Cooke ... Motorist
Edgar Dearing ... Motorcycle policeman
Frank Ellis ... Motorist
Helen Gilmore ... Motorist
Clara Guiol ... Motorist
Charlie Hall ... Shopkeeper
Jack Hill ... Motorist with mattress
Fred Holmes ... Motorist
Ham Kinsey ... Motorist
Sam Lufkin ... Pedestrian; motorist
Charles McMurphy ... Motorist
Retta Palmer ... Motorist
Lon Poff ... Motorist
Thomas Benton Roberts ... Motorist with tomatoes
Charley Rogers ... Motorist with bent fenders
George Rowe ... Motorist
Lyle Tayo ... Motorist
Dorothea Wolbert ... Motorist
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Two Tough Tars (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
21 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Silent
Certification:
Australia:G

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Trivia:
Originally titled "Two Tough Tars." more
Movie Connections:
Edited into The Golden Age of Comedy (1957) more

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5 out of 5 people found the following comment useful:-
a well constructed and satisfying comedy, 15 June 2005
8/10
Author: cinefool from United States

Part of the beauty of this perfectly paced classic comedy is not just it's gradual compounding of incident but how resonant it's plotting is today. Who likes traffic jams? Nobody! Stan and Ollie seem almost prescient to have tapped into a vexation that plagues us even now; maybe more than ever on today's superhighways that still cannot accommodate the flow of modern commuting. It is not so much the individual performances that matter here, but the over-all building of pace and piling on of incident. I think of this film every time I'm tangled in bad traffic; so will you, but please resist the temptation to rip the fender off of the car alongside you -- it may be mine.

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