USA
Short Film | Comedy | English | 20m
Dir: Raymond McCarey | Scr: H.M. Walker | DP: Art Lloyd | Prod: Hal Roach | Ed: Richard Currier
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Richard Cramer, Arthur Housman, Vivien Oakland
Single-sentence review | 73 words | 29/06/11 | 1932 Favourites
With its jails completely full, Judge Beaumont orders a pair of vagrants to leave town in lieu of the charge’s usual 180 day sentence, but instead Stan and Ollie hook up with a drunken millionaire, who offers them a place to stay for the night – cue dropped car keys, lost house keys, mistaken identity, more booze, and an unwelcome reacquainting with the judge, in this hugely entertaining, oft hilarious Laurel and Hardy short.
1000 Nights in the Dark: a collection of reviews of the single sentence, capsule, short, medium, and long variety, varying in length from fifty to a thousand-plus words, documenting my personal, exploratory journey through cinephilia.
