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    Oliver Hardy (left) and Stan Laurel.
    Photo: Photofest, courtesy San Francisco Silent Film Festival.
Wrong Again
AKA Apenas um Ligeiro Engano in Brazil; Blinde Wut and Der Gaul auf dem Klavier in Germany; Nurinkurin ja päinvastoin and Väärässä jälleen in Finland
(1929) American
B&W : Two reels
Directed by Leo McCarey

Cast: Stan Laurel [Stan], Oliver Hardy [Oliver], Dell Henderson [the painting owner], Josephine Crowell [the painting owner’s mother], Harry Bernard [policeman], Sam Lufkin [Sullivan], William Gillespie [the horse owner], Charlie Hall [neighbor], Jack Hill [man on buckboard], Fred Holmes [stable boy], Fred Kelsey, Anders Randolf

Hal Roach Studios, Incorporated, production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation. / Produced by Hal Roach. From a screen story by Leo McCarey and Lewis R. Foster. Set dresser Theodore Driscoll. Property master Morris Lightfoot (Morey Lightfoot). Assistant property master Duncan. Animal wrangler Jones. Assistant directors Lewis R. Foster and Lloyd French. Cinematography by George Stevens. Camera operator Jack Roach. Camera assistant E.V. White. Intertitles by H.M. Walker. Edited by Richard Currier. / © 5 March 1929 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation [LP187]. Released 23 February 1929. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. Western Electric Vitaphone sound-on-disc sound system. / The production was shot 21 November through 1 December 1928. Working title: Just the Reverse. The film was released in Finland on 14 August 1929. / Silent film, with synchronized music and sound effects.

Comedy.

Survival Status: Prints exist (including the Vitaphone soundtrack disks) [35mm positive], in the Film Preservation Associates film collection (Blackhawk Films collection), and in private film collections [8mm reduction positives].

Keywords: Animals: Horses - Musical instruments: Pianos - Synchronized sound film

Listing updated: 18 April 2008.

References: Film viewing : Everson-American p. 310c; Kerr-Silent p. 327; Skretvedt-LaurelHardy pp. 140, 141, 142, 387, 406 : Vitaphone-1-3 : Website-IMDb.

Home Video: DVD.

 
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