Stan and Ollie mistakenly enlist in the army and find themselves posted to the Northwest Frontier in India on a dangerous mission.
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| Complete credited cast: | |||
| Stan Laurel | ... | Stanley MacLaurel | |
| Oliver Hardy | ... | Oliver Hardy | |
| June Lang | ... | Lorna MacLaurel | |
| William Janney | ... | Allan Douglas | |
| Anne Grey | ... | Lady Violet Ormsby | |
| Vernon Steele | ... | Col. Gregor McGregor | |
| James Finlayson | ... | Sgt. Maj. Finlayson | |
| David Torrence | ... | Mr. Miggs - the Lawyer | |
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Maurice Black | ... | Khan Mir Jutra |
| Daphne Pollard | ... | Millie - the Maid | |
| Mary Gordon | ... | Mrs. Bickerdike | |
| Lionel Belmore | ... | Blacksmith | |
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Stan and Ollie stowaway to Scotland expecting to inherit the MacLaurel estate. However Stan's inheritance amounts to a set of bagpipes and a snuff box. The boys are tricked into enlisting in the army and are posted to India where the heiress to the MacLaurel estate has moved to be near her guardian. Her Scottish sweetheart Allan also enlists. The boys are "volunteered" by the Sergeant (Finlayson) to impersonate officers at the palace of Mir Jutra and foil a plot to murder the officers by overturning several beehives. Written by Stephen Harrison <stephen@telos.demon.co.uk>
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23 August 1935 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Of the principal players, only James Finlayson, David Torrence, and Mary Gordon were authentic Scots, all three having been born there. See more »Goofs
Stan is cleaning his rifle with his handkerchief but in a reverse shot there's no handkerchief. See more »Alternate Versions
"Bang Bang", "I'm a Mess" and "The Rookies" were shorts from "Bonnie Scotland" for TV. See more »Connections
Featured in Laurel and Hardy: Die komische Liebesgeschichte von 'Dick & Doof' (2011) See more »Frequently Asked Questions
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Stan and Ollie travel all the way to Bonnie Scotland to collect on an inheritance left by Stan MacLaurel's late grandfather. Both he and his cousin June Lang are provided, but she's not of age and she's under the firm guardianship of Colonel Vernon Steele and his scheming Mrs., Anne Grey.
William Janney, the clerk in lawyer David Torrence's office is in love with June Lang, but she's spirited off to India during the British Raj. Never mind, Stan and Ollie and poor young Janney also find their way there as the scene of the plot shifts from Bonnie Scotland to India with the Highlanders.
It's all a pretty thin plot, but good enough to hang some of Stan and Ollie's best screen moments on. One of my all time favorites is when Ollie has an encounter with a snuff box which was half of Laurel's inheritance the other half being a set of bagpipes. Another is when Stan and Ollie try to use the bedsprings in their hotel to grill some fish and nearly burn poor Mary Gordon's establishment down.
After the boys go into the Indian Army they become the bane of the existence of their old nemesis, Sergeant James Finlayson. In the end Janney, Finlayson, and the boys provide a hilarious ending to a tribal rebellion.
Films like Lives of a Bengal Lancer and Charge of the Light Brigade about the British Raj take one good beating from producer Hal Roach and his intrepid and incomparable stars. For fans of Stan and Ollie the world over.