Goulding and released in 1940 by United Artists, was the penultimate Laurel and Hardy film made at the Hal Roach studios. After BULLFIGHTERS Fox offered Stan and Babe a new contract to play supporting roles in musicals, and between that prospective demotion and Stan's health(worn out after almost four years at Fox)it was the last straw, and of course they didn't re-sign. laurel & hardy, oliver hardy, stan laurel, comedy, short, film Language English A Chump at Oxford, directed in 1939 by Alfred J. But NOTHING BUT TROUBLE over at MGM was another kettle of fish, an ersatz Freddie Bartholomew movie(the very late David Leland was the 'new' Freddie)that often seems more drama than comedy. Clair films there's a lot of the old L&H popping out. L AND H IN COLOR Laurel and Hardy did appear in films that were two strip (use of red and blue ) and three strip (red, yellow and blue) Laurel and Hardy. It probably also helped that Fox was winding the B unit down in 1943 and perhaps the brass was less inclined to micro-manage them('Oh, just get it in the can'). Oliver Hardy and Stan Laurel are vagrants being chased by the police.They hide in the cellar of the mansion of a Quatermain-esque adventurer, Colonel Wilberforce Buckshot (James Finlayson), and get trapped there.The colonel is not home, having just departed for a safari in South Africa.

Clair became their regular director, and he let them change things in the script that weren't right for them and invent a few new things. GREAT GUNS, A-HAUNTING WE WILL GO, and AIR RAID WARDENS are pretty unbearable, the first two because of dialog and character motivations that are just wrong for them, the third due to rushed shooting and forced pathos lobbed onto them.

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