Stan and Ollie hold out money from their paychecks from their shrewish wives so they can enjoy a night out on the town... with predictable results.Stan and Ollie hold out money from their paychecks from their shrewish wives so they can enjoy a night out on the town... with predictable results.Stan and Ollie hold out money from their paychecks from their shrewish wives so they can enjoy a night out on the town... with predictable results.
Tiny Sandford
- Waiter
- (as S.J. Sandford)
Jimmy Aubrey
- Cook
- (uncredited)
Chet Brandenburg
- Waiter
- (uncredited)
Ed Brandenburg
- Waiter
- (uncredited)
Dorothy Coburn
- Hatcheck Girl
- (uncredited)
Edgar Dearing
- Waiter
- (uncredited)
Gracie Doll
- Midget Performer
- (uncredited)
Daisy Earles
- Pink Pub MIdget Performer
- (uncredited)
Harry Earles
- Pink Pub Midget Perfomer
- (uncredited)
Helen Gilmore
- Pink Pub Patron
- (uncredited)
Clara Guiol
- Waitress
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaThe troupe of midgets hired for a deleted scene in the film came from the Al G. Barnes Circus, which was wintering in Los Angeles, at the time. They were paid $50 a day.
- GoofsWhen Stan knocks on the front door and enters the door is completely different in the interior shot. It's the same when Ollie and his wife enter.
- Quotes
Title card: [Opening lines] Dedicated to husbands who "hold out" part of their pay envelope on their wives - And live to tell about it...
- ConnectionsFeatured in 4 Clowns (1970)
- SoundtracksOh, You Beautiful Doll
(1911) (uncredited)
Music by Nat Ayer (as Nat D. Dyer)
Instrumental version in restoration background music
Featured review
This is another of Laurel & Hardy's early shorts that I watched on Hulu as linked from IMDb. This seems to be the first time they have wives that boss them around so they have to sneak around in order to have some fun like later on in films like Be Big or Sons of the Desert. In this one, Stan & Ollie go to a restaurant after a couple of men run out on their dates so the boys volunteer to help pay for the women (Kay Deslys, Anita Garvin) left behind. But both men find out their wives took their money without them knowing. And the gossiping woman, seeing them all there, goes back to tell the spouses what's what. I'll stop there and just say that not much funny happens until the food fight that ends the picture. It replaced an earlier sequence that involved Stan & Ollie dressing as women that was filmed but I'm guessing that's now lost. There's a still from that scene in Randy Skrevedt's book "Laurel and Hardy: The Magic Behind the Movies". On that point, Their Purple Moment is at least worth a look.
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- Runtime22 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
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