USA, 1926
21m
35mm film, black and white, 1.33:1
silent
An American comedy film with a single brief fantasy sequence directed by Fred Guiol. Though the film features Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy they don’t share any on-screen time together. The bulk of the shoot took place in 1925, with reshoots between March and April 1926. It was first released in the USA in December 1926.
Plot Summary
A California family are about to be evicted and are forced to make a trip to Hollywood to catch up on their rent payments. Once there they see dinosaurs in the Hollywood Hills, mistake a film being made for a bank robbery and end up in a hotel.
Credits
* = uncredited
Crew
Directed by: Fred Guiol
Hal Roach Studios
Produced by: Hal Roach
Written by: Hal Roach
Titles: H.M. Walker
Cast
Glenn Tryon (Orville)
Charlotte Mineau (Orville’s mother)
Rube Clifford [real name: Jack Rube Clifford] (Orville’s grandpa)
Sue O’Neil [real name: Sally O’Neil] (Orville’s sister)
Oliver Hardy (hotel detective)
Edna Murphy (Em, hotel detective’s wife)
Jerry Mandy (imbibing trashman)
Claude Gillingwater [old man in hotel bed] *
Al Hallett *
Ed Brandenburg *, Monte Collins *, Janet Gaynor *, Jack Hill *, Ham Kinsey [hotel guests] *
Stan Laurel [starving actor, hotel guest] *
Tiny Sandford [train conductor] *
Alternative Titles
45 minut z Hollywood – Poland
45 минут от Голливуда – Soviet Russia
A 45 minuti da Hollywood – Italy
Her House Sheik – working title
Väter der Klamotte: Diese Dame ist ein Kerl – West Germany (television)
Links
Extracts included in
Laurel and Hardy’s Laughing 20’s (1965)
References
Periodicals
- Classic Images no.368 (February 2006) p.29 – DVD review (Sam Rubin’s Classic Clinic: The Oliver Hardy Collection by Sam Rubin)
Books
- The Armchair Odeon: The Collector’s Guide to the Movies by Denis Gifford pp.89-90
- Horror and Science Fiction Films: A Checklist by Donald C. Willis p.170 – credits
- Laurel & Hardy text by John McCabe, compiled by Al Kilgore – credits, note
- The Laurel & Hardy Encyclopedia by Glenn Mitchell pp.112 – synopsis, review
- The Pocket Essential: Laurel & Hardy by Brian J. Robb pp.13-14 – credits, synopsis, review
- Reference Guide to Fantastic Films by Walt Lee p.146 – credits
