The Stolen Jools (1931)

Star-packed promotional short subject intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists tuberculosis sanatorium, produced in association with a cigarette company! Plot involves the ... See full summary »

Director:

William C. McGann

Stars:

Wallace Beery, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Wallace Beery	...	Police Sergeant
Buster Keaton	...	Policeman
Jack Hill	...	Policeman
J. Farrell MacDonald	...	Policeman
Edward G. Robinson	...	Gangster (as Edward Robinson)
George E. Stone	...	Gangster
Eddie Kane	...	Inspector Kane
Stan Laurel	...	Policeman
Oliver Hardy	...	Police Driver
Allen 'Farina' Hoskins	...	Farina (as Farina)
Matthew 'Stymie' Beard	...	Stymie (as Stymie)
Norman 'Chubby' Chaney	...	Chubby (as Chubby)
Mary Ann Jackson	...	Mary Ann Jackson
Shirley Jean Rickert	...	Shirley Jean
Dorothy DeBorba	...	Echo (as Echo)

Storyline

Star-packed promotional short subject intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists tuberculosis sanatorium, produced in association with a cigarette company! Plot involves the investigation of the reported theft of Norma Shearer's jewelry.

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Plot Keywords:

detective | jewels | police sergeant | laurel and hardy | police chief | 

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Genres:

Comedy | Short

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

4 April 1931 (USA)

Also Known As:

De gestolen juwelen

Company Credits

Production Co:

Masquers Club of Hollywood, National Variety Artists

Technical Specs

Runtime:

20 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

"The Stolen Jools" is this film's original title. It was made by the National Vaudeville Artists (NVA) as part of a charity campaign and distributed free to theatres in 1931. After the showing a live speaker would come out and request donations. The film was rediscovered in 1972 in Britain, where it had been released in 1932 as "The Slippery Pearls," one of the Masquers Club comedy series for RKO. Subsequently a U.S. print was discovered and the film's true title, origin and purpose were at last known.

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Goofs

On Detective Kane's pawn ticket, "saxophone" is misspelled "saxaphone."

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Quotes

Frank Fay: We know each other. We're married!

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Connections

Referenced in Room 101: Episode #8.3 (2003)

User Reviews

THE STOLEN JOOLS (William C. McGann, 1931) **1/2

Believe it or not, this unique all-star comedy short was financed by a tobacco-producing company in aid of charity! Practically everybody who was anybody in Hollywood circa 1931 puts in an appearance here during its mildly enjoyable but thoroughly fascinating 18-minute run: seasoned copper Wallace Beery sending rookie Buster Keaton to patrol the streets of L.A., detective team supreme of Laurel & Hardy arriving on the scene of the titular crime (belonging to Norma Shearer, no less) and having their car disassemble itself right there and then, Victor McLaglen and Edmund Lowe (in character as Flagg and Quirt) waited on by Swede El Brendel at a restaurant, Warner Baxter (again in character as The Cisco Kid – for which he was awarded an Oscar in 1929) flirting with the ladies, gangsters Edward G. Robinson and George E. Stone hiding out in a hotel lobby, Richard Dix and Irene Dunne – whom I have just seen teamed up in CIMARRON (1931) – being questioned by a nosy investigator, editor Gary Cooper ordering reporter Eugene Palette about, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. taking a stroll with Loretta Young, a rare peak at the home of newly-weds Frank Fay and Barbara Stanwyck (of whom, incidentally, I have just acquired a handful of rare movies)…plus Richard Barthelmess, Joe E. Brown (donning a false beard), Maurice Chevalier, Joan Crawford, Jack Oakie, Wheeler & Woolsey (whose brief bit here made me want to watch more of them), etc.