Two Tars (1928)

User Rating:

7.6/10   

Director:

James Parrott

Writers:

Leo McCarey (story)
H.M. Walker (titles)

Release Date:

3 November 1928 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Short

Plot:

Stanley and Oliver, two sailors on shore leave, rent a car and go on a drive with their dates, but soon...

Plot Keywords:

Sailor | Silent Film | Laurel And Hardy | Number In Title

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

Also Known As:

Two Tough Tars (USA) (working title)

Runtime:

21 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Silent

Certification:

Australia:G

Filming Locations:

Hal Roach Studios - 8822 Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA

Company:

Hal Roach Studios

Trivia:

Originally titled "Two Tough Tars."

Movie Connections:

Edited into The Golden Age of Comedy (1957)

a well constructed and satisfying comedy

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.