McCarey and Stevens had their greatest successes ahead of them Bruckman, the most successful of the group in 1927, hadn’t yet begun his spectacular implosion. Nobody at the Hal Roach Studios knew it at the time, but they were at the center of a unique confluence of cinematic talent: not just Laurel and Hardy, but directorial legends Leo McCarey, George Stevens, and Clyde Bruckman. Although they’d shot the first three Laurel and Hardy films, none had yet been released. This effect was achieved with the optical-printing device known as a wipe.Both Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy had been appearing in films throughout the 1920s, occasionally together, but had only been officially paired together since that June. And after they said their goodbyes to the doctors as they leave the hospital, Oliver (as Stan) told Stan (as Oliver) "Wait a minute, I forgot something!" And it was pulling the end title screen.Ĭast List of cast members NameĪt three points in the film, Laurel and Hardy drag the next scene into the frame from off-camera.
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Ollie reacts by breaking into Stan's trademark cry for the comic fadeout. Ollie mimes Stan's famous befuddled head scratch while an exasperated Stan twiddles his tie in response and delivers Ollie's signature catchphrase, "Here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!" (in Hardy's dubbed voice). The two comedians proceed to do spot-on imitations of each other's mannerisms. Ollie is minus his toothbrush mustache and wearing Stan's hat and bow-tie, while Stan is wearing Ollie's hat, necktie and mustache. This sets up the climactic sight gag: when Laurel and Hardy exit the hospital they appear to have morphed into each other. But too much blood gets pumped back into Stan, requiring another reversal, and so forth. During the transfusion, the blood-transferring equipment malfunctions and too much blood is pumped out of Stan and into Ollie, requiring some of the blood inside Ollie to be pumped into Stan. The doctor conscripts Stan to be the unwilling blood donor ("what do you think I am, a blood worm?"). Hardy then causes serious injuries to Ollie when she hits him over the head with a frying pan, requiring him to be rushed to hospital for a blood transfusion.
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Hardy back at home he tells Stan that "here is another nice kettle of fish you've pickled me in". At Stan's suggestion Ollie then withdraws the couple's savings from the bank to buy furniture and inadvertently pays virtually the whole amount at an auction for a grandfather clock which is soon crushed under a passing truck. Hardy embark on a lengthy "the money that you gave to him, to give to me to pay him" dialogue routine. James Finlayson then calls to collect payment for some furniture. Ollie then tells him to put them somewhere dry and he places them on a gas ring where they heat up, so that when Ollie picks them up he drops them and they all smash. Stan and Ollie are ordered to wash the dishes by Ollie's wife (in the first film-title pun-gag, Stan pours too much liquid-detergent into the dishpan, causing the resulting washing-solution to be "much thicker than water") but Stan dries them and puts them back in the washbowl.