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Original title: On the Front Page

19261926
22m

IMDb RATING

5.7/10

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Comedy Short

After being beaten to a story of scandal involving Countess Polasky, James W. Hornby assigns his son 24 hours to find an even more scandalous story about the countess. After spending the nig... Read allAfter being beaten to a story of scandal involving Countess Polasky, James W. Hornby assigns his son 24 hours to find an even more scandalous story about the countess. After spending the night in the wrong street looking for the wrong countess, he comes up with a plan: the butler... Read allAfter being beaten to a story of scandal involving Countess Polasky, James W. Hornby assigns his son 24 hours to find an even more scandalous story about the countess. After spending the night in the wrong street looking for the wrong countess, he comes up with a plan: the butler will be seen in a comprimising situation with the countess, and then photographed. The co... Read all

IMDb RATING

5.7/10

172

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

608,128

208,791

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Trivia
The publisher James W Hornby may be named after long-time Roach director James W Horne.

Goofs
The sign on the door of James W. Hornby's private office reads "James W. Hornsby".

Quotes
Title Card: Countess Polasky - - she would have made Sappho and Salome look like two Eskimos

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8/10

How to steal a scene

This is a textbook example of a supporting actor stealing a film. I guarantee you people walked out of the theater thinking that Stan Laurel had a bright future.

Stan plays an uptight butler who is shy and terrified of women. (Think Gilligan of Gilligan's Island in a butler's uniform.) When he is forced to take part in a scheme to sell papers by creating a scandal, he has to overcome his shyness in an hurry and seduce the sophisticated "Countess Polasky", who, the film tell us, "would make Sappho and Salome look like two Eskimos." She gets the idea to seduce him, but the joke is on her when the shy butler discovers that, yes, it can be wonderful to hold a woman in your arms!

This delightful short is a triumph for Stan Laurel, an undervalued classic, and well worth viewing for nothing else but the early shots of glorious, undeveloped California in the late 1920s. My jaw dropped at the sight of those almost bare, lightly motored, tree-lined streets. Beautiful.

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