While this isn't the best short made by Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, it is among the better ones and there is very little I would change about it. The boys are a well-established team when this film was created and their performance seemed effortless and magical. This was NOT the case with their later films, but don't get me started on that,...
Ollie is getting married to a woman that looks a little bit like Ollie in drag (fortunately it was NOT Ollie in drag--a dopey device they used in another of their films). But the father of the bride (James Finlayson) hasn't met Ollie and when he sees a photo of his future son-in-law, he loudly announces they WON'T marry!! In the meantime, Ollie is getting ready for the wedding--unaware of the problem with his father-in-law-to-be. And, of course, his Best Man, Stanley, is doing almost everything possible to make a mess of everything. It isn't intentional--just Stanley being his usual stupid self (such as spraying the wedding cake with bug spray to drive away the bugs).
Ollie gets a phone call from his beloved and learns that "Daddy" won't let it occur. However, Ollie announces they'll elope and asks Stanley's help in the endeavor. Well, when they arrive at the house, Stanley, it seems, rented a car like Ollie asked but it was smaller than a Mini Cooper! It almost looked like one of those cars that clowns pop out of and watching the three of them squeeze into it was a riot.
In the end, they finally get to the justice of the peace and it's cross-eyed Ben Turpin--who, due to his eye sight, marries Stanly to Ollie--or so it seems!
Ollie is getting married to a woman that looks a little bit like Ollie in drag (fortunately it was NOT Ollie in drag--a dopey device they used in another of their films). But the father of the bride (James Finlayson) hasn't met Ollie and when he sees a photo of his future son-in-law, he loudly announces they WON'T marry!! In the meantime, Ollie is getting ready for the wedding--unaware of the problem with his father-in-law-to-be. And, of course, his Best Man, Stanley, is doing almost everything possible to make a mess of everything. It isn't intentional--just Stanley being his usual stupid self (such as spraying the wedding cake with bug spray to drive away the bugs).
Ollie gets a phone call from his beloved and learns that "Daddy" won't let it occur. However, Ollie announces they'll elope and asks Stanley's help in the endeavor. Well, when they arrive at the house, Stanley, it seems, rented a car like Ollie asked but it was smaller than a Mini Cooper! It almost looked like one of those cars that clowns pop out of and watching the three of them squeeze into it was a riot.
In the end, they finally get to the justice of the peace and it's cross-eyed Ben Turpin--who, due to his eye sight, marries Stanly to Ollie--or so it seems!