Laurel and Hardy: Flying Elephants

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Movie
Original title Flying Elephants
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1928
length approx. 17 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Fred Butler
script Hal Roach , HM Walker ( subtitles )
production Hal Roach
occupation

Fliegende Elefanten ( Flying Elephants ) is a short film comedy from 1928 starring the comedian duo Laurel and Hardy . The film's premiere was on February 12, 1928,but it is not knownwhether the film was released by Ufa distributors in Germany before the Second World War.

action

About 4000 BC Chr. Instructs King Ferdinand all men over 13 and married under 99 years within 24 hours, who strip the no award shall sentenced to death. Both Mighty Giant and Little Twinkle Star are looking for a woman to marry. One accompanies them on their initially unsuccessful tour, on which many mishaps happen to them. Ultimately, Little Twinkle Star can overpower the physically superior Mighty Giant and wins the heart of Saxophonus' daughter, Blushing Rose.

background

Flying Elephants was filmed in May 1927 in the Moapa Valley, Nevada , where the filming of Oliver Hardy's solo film No Man's Law took place in 1926 . The film was produced by Hal Roach for the film company Pathé Exchange Inc. and was completed months before its premiere, but the company was reluctant to bring the film to market for unknown reasons, which was a reason for a lawsuit by Roach against them.

In Germany, Flying Elephants was shown to be shown for the first time in the comedy series “Grandpa's Cinema Lives”, which ran from 1964 to autumn 1968 in the evening program of ZDF with a total of 28 episodes. There were also broadcasts in the programs "Dick und Doof" (1970) and "Zwei Herren Dick und Doof" (1975), which were edited in collaboration between Heinz Caloué and Hanns Dieter Hüsch. In 1997 , Flying Elephants also found its place in the program “Comedy Capers”, a production by DF1 , under the title “In the Stone Age”.

Web links

literature

  • Norbert Aping: The Dick and Doof Book. The story of Laurel and Hardy in Germany , 2nd revised edition, Schüren 2007, 576 pages ( ISBN 978-3-89472-491-7 )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Dick and Doof Book. Book text. Page 25
  2. ↑ The Dick and Doof Book. Digital attachments. File # 5, page 29
  3. ↑ The Dick and Doof Book. Book text. Page 52
  4. ↑ The Dick and Doof Book. Book text, page 378/379. Note also in digital attachments. File # 3, page 16, note 406
  5. ↑ The Dick and Doof Book. Book text. Page 451
  6. ↑ The Dick and Doof Book. Book text. Page 544