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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302034035
Format: Black & White, NTSC
ISBN: 6302034035
Label: Starz / Anchor Bay
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageAnalog
Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Starz / Anchor Bay
Release Date: October 06, 1997
Running Time: 63 minutes
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Theatrical Release Date: 1940
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This wild Laurel and Hardy film casts the pair as street cleaners who stop a bank robbery. As their reward, they are both given full-ride scholarships to Oxford (which seems a bit odd, since it was the middle of the Depression). When they arrive at the British institution of higher learning, however, they become the objects of extensive pranks by the other students, who are upperclassmen in more ways than one and look down their noses at the working-class buffoons. Except for one thing: Stan, as it turns out, was one of Oxford's most distinguished and accomplished scholars before a blow on the head turned him into the easygoing dimwit we know and love. Another knock on the noggin turns him back into the veddy British lord, who promptly sets the other students straight. Some very funny business with the boys and a stuffy dean, whose quarters they invade. --Marshall Fine
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This movie begins with Stan and Ollie in the employment office, waiting for any available job they can do. Ollie happens to overhear that a butler and maid, preferrably a married couple, are wanted to host a swank party in town, immediately, and decides the two of them will take the job. Stan is forced to put on female attire and a curly blonde wig, far from the first time he's dressed in drag in one of their movies. This entire scene at the dinner party is a remake of their 1928 silent short 'From Soup to Nuts,' only Stan wasn't in drag in that one. Mr. Vanderveer, the host of this party, is played by the great character actor Jimmy Finlayson, at his usual best. However, things at this party don't quite go as planned, and the boys quickly find themselves out of a job. They are reduced to working as street sweepers, and are sitting there on the curb, feeling sorry for themselves, lamenting how they're just as good as other people yet don't have the education to prove it, when they ... Read More
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Stan and Ollie are jobless and down on their luck. Before long, their jobs as a maid and butler (Stan forced to dress up in drag) go wrong, and they end up as street-sweepers. After, unwittingly, foiling a bank robbery, they are rewarded by the bank manager with an education. This leads to them going to an Oxford college, where they soon fall foul of student pranks. After Stan is hit on the head by a sliding window, both he and Ollie get an education they weren't expecting.
When I first saw this film, around twenty years ago, it was one of my favourite Laurel and Hardy films, and I'd still say that now. This is L&H at their purest - hilarious situations, great characters and a warmth so lacking in most of today's comedy. In fact I'd say there's never a dull moment in this film, would put it up there with 'Way Out West' as L&H's finest.
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In their next to last:Hal Roach Comedy.Laurel And Hardy spoof the Brittish educational system in a very funny way,
Once again,they're out of work and in need of gainful employment.So they head for an employment agentcy.
While wating to be interviewed by the agentcy's rep(played with some haughty aplomb by Vivian Oakland).Ollie overhears Ms.Oakland's phone conversation with a wealthy dowager:"Mrs.Vanderveer"(Anita Garvin).Who needs a butler and a
maid for an important dinner party that both she and her husband:"Mr.Baldy Vanderveer"(Played by perrenial L&H Villian:Jimmy Finlayson)are giving.
Before you know It?
Stan is once again dressed in drag and Ollie is sporting a beautiful tuxedo.Both of the boys try to do their duties at the dinner party.But they both louse up the proceedings and they're chased out of "Mr.Vanderveer's"home at the point of a
gun.
Reduced to working as lowley sidewalk cleaners.They ... Read More
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Awesome performance by the dynamic duo in this one. Although the movie is quite short...just 42 minutes. It still stands as a very funny Laurel & Hardy classic. A definite must for any Laurel & Hardy buff.
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Stan and Ollie are on top form in this hilarious caper. After a brief prologue as butler and maid ( Stan in drag! ) our heroes foil a bank robbery and set off to get an education. Hollywood's Oxford offers a perfect contest for misunderstandings and slapstick. Stan's impression of a plum-in-the-mouth Brit is priceless. A breath of comic fresh air that will have the whole family laughing.
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