Frame enlargement: Silent Era low-res collection.

Cast: Stan Laurel [Stan], Oliver Hardy [Oliver], Vivien Oakland, Bess Flowers, Kay Deslys, Vera White; George Kotsonaros

Hal Roach Studios, Incorporated, production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation. / Photographed (cinematography) by George Stevens. Titles (intertitles) by H.M. Walker. Edited by Richard Currier. / © 29 December 1928 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation [LP25994]. Released 29 December 1928. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / The production was shot from 23 August through 1 September 1928, with retakes shot on 7 and 13 September 1928. / Silent film, with synchronized music and sound effects.

Comedy.

Synopsis: The boys conspire to get out of the house to play a poker game and a end up entertaining two women, not their wives.

Survival Status: Prints exist in the Film Preservation Assocaites film archive (Blackhawk Films collection), and in private film collections [8mm reduction positives].

Keywords: Synchronized sound film

Listing updated: 21 July 2007.

References: Film credits, film viewing : Kerr-Silent p. 331; Skretvedt-LaurelHardy pp. 133, 134, 135-136, 345.

Home Video: DVD.