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Two homeless vagabonds hide out in a vacant mansion and pose as the residents when prospective lessees arrive and try to rent it.Two homeless vagabonds hide out in a vacant mansion and pose as the residents when prospective lessees arrive and try to rent it.Two homeless vagabonds hide out in a vacant mansion and pose as the residents when prospective lessees arrive and try to rent it.
Harry Bernard
- Policeman
- (uncredited)
Bobby Burns
- Bicyclist
- (uncredited)
Betty Mae Crane
- Talking Titles
- (uncredited)
Beverly Crane
- Talking Titles
- (uncredited)
Eddie Dunn
- Meadows
- (uncredited)
James Finlayson
- Col. Wilburforce Buckshot
- (uncredited)
Charles K. Gerrard
- Lord Leopold Ambrose Plumtree
- (uncredited)
Bill Knight
- Policeman
- (uncredited)
Bob Minford
- Policeman
- (uncredited)
Gertrude Sutton
- Agnes - Maid
- (uncredited)
Thelma Todd
- Lady Plumtree
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- H.M. Walker
- Oliver Hardy(uncredited)
- Arthur J. Jefferson(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
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Did you know
- TriviaThe main credits are spoken by twin sisters Betty Mae Crane and Beverly Crane wearing theater usher uniforms. As an alternative to standard titles, in a short-lived experiment, they performed the "talking titles" for several Hal Roach productions in 1930 and 1931. This is the only Laurel & Hardy film with spoken credits. The girls were paid $15 ($279 in 2024) each for their efforts.
- GoofsLady Plumtree refers to her husband variously as "Leopold," "Ambrose," and "Leopold Ambrose" due to two different versions of the script.
- Crazy creditsThe opening credits are spoken by two pretty girls in theater usher uniforms.
- Alternate versionsThe original UK VHS edition of this film (released on the Virgin/VVL label in 1991) omits 16 seconds in the scene where Hardy is looking for his billiard room. He opens the door and escorts Plumtree into a room and says "Now what did I do with that billiard room?" The scene runs from 18:32-18:48 on the UK DVD. The scene is restored in its entirety in the DVD edition.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter (1982)
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Laurel & Hardy return to the high life in Another Fine Mess
Having just watched Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy work in a mansion in the silent short From Soup to Nuts, here they are again at another such place in the talkie short Another Fine Mess. This time, they're on the run from the police for sleeping on park benches and they end up in the cellar of the residence of one Colonel Buckshot (James Finlayson) who's leaving on vacation. When they find out that the butler and maid are also taking time off, and with a cop still on the lookout for them, Stan poses as both butler and maid and Ollie poses as the Colonel as a young society couple arrives to rent the place. The lady of that couple is played by Thelma Todd who'd appear in quite a few of the L & H shorts and eventually star in her own Hal Roach series with first Zasu Pitts and then Patsy Kelly. She's quite charming when she converses with Stan's portrayal of maid "Agnes"! Hardy as Buckshot also gets his charms when playing him when conversing with the man of the renting couple who has quite a funny laugh which gets quite a workout here, that's for sure! As for Finlayson, well, he only has the beginning and near the end scenes to appear but he does what he can in those scenes and make them count! All in all, Another Fine Mess was quite a funny L & H short. P. S. The twin ladies who recite the credits at the beginning are Beverly and Betty Mae Crane who served the same function during this period on all Hal Roach shorts like the Our Gang entries Teacher's Pet, School's Out, and Love Business which I've also reviewed on this site. So as we leave Stan & Ollie behind, we next will visit Bud Abbott & Lou Costello when they also come In Society.
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- tavm
- Mar 31, 2023
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- Ще одине чудове діло
- Filming locations
- West Adams Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, USA(street scenes)
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- Runtime29 minutes
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