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Stan, who has remained faithfully at his World War I post for twenty years, finally comes home where his best friend, Ollie, takes him in, thus allowing him to discover the many conveniences... Read allStan, who has remained faithfully at his World War I post for twenty years, finally comes home where his best friend, Ollie, takes him in, thus allowing him to discover the many conveniences of the modern world.Stan, who has remained faithfully at his World War I post for twenty years, finally comes home where his best friend, Ollie, takes him in, thus allowing him to discover the many conveniences of the modern world.
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 1 nomination total
Zeffie Tilbury
- Dowager Seated Near Stairs
- (scenes deleted)
Harry Anderson
- Doorman
- (uncredited)
Walter Bacon
- Pedestrian
- (uncredited)
Mike Behegan
- Bugler
- (uncredited)
Billy Bletcher
- Midget
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
William A. Boardway
- Tenant
- (uncredited)
Tommy Bond
- Neighbor's Son
- (uncredited)
Chet Brandenburg
- Pedestrian
- (uncredited)
Ed Brandenburg
- Pedestrian
- (uncredited)
Russell Custer
- Pedestrian
- (uncredited)
Tex Driscoll
- Bearded Veteran
- (uncredited)
Olin Francis
- Apartment House Tenant in 910
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaAt the beginning of the film, there's a sign pointing to the trench called "COOTIE AVE". "Cootie" was a slang term for lice--a scourge of soldiers in the trenches during the war.
- GoofsOllie is pushing Stan in the wheelchair when Stan says that he's thirsty. Ollie picks up a hose pipe, gives it to Stan and goes to turn it on. Stan has the end of the hose pointing at Ollie resulting in him getting soaked. He turns the water off, returns to Stan, and he's dry.
- Crazy creditsOpening credits: The events and characters depicted in this photoplay are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental, and not our fault! (signed Stan Laurel. Oliver Hardy)
- Alternate versionsIn order to make it fit into a TV package in the 50s, it was edited down to a short and retitled "Do It Yourself."
- ConnectionsFeatured in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Big Parade of Hits for 1940 (1940)
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Stan and Ollie just before things started going wrong.
Relations with producer Hal Roach were strained when the boys made this short feature (or long short) and it wouldn't be long before they made the fateful decision to throw in their lot with 20th Century Fox, a move that would mark a slow, painful and irreversible decline. This is one of the last of the films that shows them almost consistently at the top of their game - although even here the cracks are beginning to show. When comedians start relying on re-working their own material from nearly a decade before - as Stan and Ollie do here in the final reel which is a virtual scene for scene remake of their first talkie Unaccustomed as We Are - you know something isn't right.
This one's probably best remembered for the opening sequence which sees Stan still guarding his company's trench twenty years after the end of the Great War. It's a funny idea, and the boys get a huge amount of mileage out of it. When Ollie reads about his old friend's remarkable return from the dead he naturally wants to see him again. Big mistake. Within hours of meeting up again Stan has managed to bury Ollie's car in builder's sand, drive it into his garage door, blow up his kitchen, get him into a fight with James Finlayson and send his wife packing. Added to all the usual slapstick and pratfalls are some truly surreal moments such as when Stan pulls down the shadow blinds and when he smokes a pipe made out of his thumb. Definitely one of the boy's films that can be watched over and over again.
This one's probably best remembered for the opening sequence which sees Stan still guarding his company's trench twenty years after the end of the Great War. It's a funny idea, and the boys get a huge amount of mileage out of it. When Ollie reads about his old friend's remarkable return from the dead he naturally wants to see him again. Big mistake. Within hours of meeting up again Stan has managed to bury Ollie's car in builder's sand, drive it into his garage door, blow up his kitchen, get him into a fight with James Finlayson and send his wife packing. Added to all the usual slapstick and pratfalls are some truly surreal moments such as when Stan pulls down the shadow blinds and when he smokes a pipe made out of his thumb. Definitely one of the boy's films that can be watched over and over again.
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- Jul 13, 2009
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- Runtime57 minutes
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