Laurel and Hardy: Only with laughing gas

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Movie
German title Only with laughing gas
Original title Leave 'em laughing
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1928
length 21 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Clyde Bruckman , Frank Butler
script Reed Heustis ( subtitles ), Hal Roach
production Hal Roach
camera George Stevens
cut Richard Currier
occupation

Only with nitrous oxide ( Leave 'Em Laughing ) is an American short film comedy starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy in the lead roles. The film had its premiere on January 28, 1928, in Germany it was shown in cinemas from March 15, 1928.

action

Stan has a toothache and he keeps his friend Ollie up all night with his whining. However, Ellie's attempts to pull Stan’s aching tooth fail. So Laurel and Hardy visit a dentist. There they are given an overdose of laughing gas. Overcome by fits of laughter, they leave the dentist's office, get into trouble with a policeman and cause traffic chaos, which ends with the two of them sinking in their car into a watered pit.

Others

  • The plot of the visit to the dentist was taken up again in the film Hinter Schloss und Riegel (1930). In the remake, too, Oliver Hardy mistakenly gets a tooth extracted because he sits down on the treatment chair to convince his friend Stan of the harmlessness of the procedure. The dentist is also embodied here by Otto Fries. There are also references to Stan and Ollie's laughing fit in Blotto (1930), Scram! (1932) and Fra Diavolo (1933). The journey into the water can be found in A Perfect Day (1929). The whole film was also used as the basis for a remake in the grotesque I Can Hardly Wait (1943).
  • Like many other silent films by Laurel and Hardy, this one too received a number of German film titles over the course of time. At its German premiere in 1928 it was called "Only with laughing gas". In various television broadcasts in the sixties he got the titles "Laughing Gases" (1964), "Dick and Doof's Crazy World" (1965), "Dick and Doof at the Dentist" (1968) and "Dick and Doof in: Toothache" ( 1969). Leave 'Em Laughing was later shown as The Helpful Wachtmeister (1975).
  • Two premieres of this film are noteworthy in terms of film history, on the one hand Edgar Kennedy's first appearance in a Laurel & Hardy film, on the other hand the Ford Model T, which was important in later films, was shown here for the first time .
  • Stan Laurel's brother Gordon died five years later at the age of 33 - from an overdose of laughing gas.

literature

  • Rainer Dick: Laurel and Hardy: The greatest comedians of all time. (Original edition) Heyne, Munich 1995 (Heyne Filmbibliothek; 32/221), ISBN 3-453-09006-3 .
  • William K. Everson: Laurel and Hardy and Their Films. Joe Hembus (Ed., German first publication) Goldmann, Munich 1980 (Citadel-Filmbücher; 10204), ISBN 3-442-10204-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cast & Crew on mediabiz.de, accessed on May 19, 2013.
  2. ↑ Leave 'Em Laughing on moviepilot.de, accessed on May 19, 2013.