Laurel and Hardy: All dogs love Stan

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Movie
German title Laurel and Hardy: All dogs love Stan
Original title Laughing Gravy
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1931
length 20 or 31 minutes
Rod
Director James W. Horne
script HM Walker
production Hal Roach
music Leroy Shield
camera Kind of Lloyd
cut Richard Currier
occupation

Laurel and Hardy: All dogs love Stan : (Alternative title The laughter sauce , A Blustery Day , to come the dog is) an American short film comedy directed by James W. Horne from the year 1931 . The comedian duo Laurel and Hardy plays the leading roles .

action

On a cold, snowy winter night, Stan and Ollie stayed at a boarding house with their dog Laughing Gravy. Unfortunately, the innkeeper doesn't allow dogs, so Stan and Ollie have to keep him hidden. When in the middle of the night their bed collapses due to a series of mishaps, the annoyed innkeeper comes into their room and discovers the dog. He throws the dog outside into the icy night, where, of course, in Stan and Ollie's opinion, he cannot stay. Ollie wants to repeat the dog alone when he locks himself out. Stan comes to the window on the first floor and pulls the dog upstairs with a bed sheet, but Ollie doesn't succeed: when he tries to pull him up with the bed sheet, Stan almost falls out because of Ollie's overweight. Finally Stan opens the door to his frozen friend downstairs.

Stan, Ollie and the dog are back in their room together, but the bed collapses again. The landlord comes in and orders them to leave the pension immediately in the morning. The dog, which was hidden in the chimney when the landlord came in, has now climbed through the shaft onto the roof. In an adventurous situation, Stan and Ollie climb onto the roof and bring the dog back, almost falling several times. Stan and Ollie are completely filthy by the fireplace and decide to wash themselves, whereby Ollie again has to suffer from his simple-minded partner. Finally the landlord comes into the room for the third time. When he spots the dog, he gives the duo 15 minutes to leave. Just as Stan and Ollie are about to leave the boarding house with their dog, a police officer appears and quarantines the house for two months so that nobody can go out. Regarding Stan and Ollie, the hotel owner says it is more than he can take. Then he goes into the next room and a shot is fired, whereupon Stan, Ollie and the policeman sadly remove their hats.

Alternative version

There is a ten-minute longer version in which Stan, after the duo has already been expelled from the house, receives a letter while packing his things. The letter says that Stan will inherit a great fortune on the only condition that he has to leave his friend Ollie because he has a bad influence on him. Stan doesn't want to show the letter to Ollie at first, but when he finally reads it, he doesn't want to stop Stan any longer. Ollie should keep the dog as a consolation. Then Stan returns and tears up the letter and his inheritance, as Ollie believes, out of friendship with him. But Stan frankly admits to Ollie that he didn't stay because of him, but because of the dog. Then it comes to the already known end with the quarantine.

The 30-minute film version was thought to be lost for a long time before it was rediscovered in 1985.

background

The film was filmed at Hal Roach Studios between February 2 and 21, 1931 . The film title Laughing Gravy is the dog's name, both in the movie and in real life. Laughing Gravy also had short appearances in the Laurel and Hardy feature films Behind Schloss und Riegel and Das Mädel aus dem Böhmerwald . The mixed breed dog died in 1939.

Laughing Gravy is a remake of the Laurel and Hardy silent film Angora Love from 1929. The plot is similar with a few exceptions, but in Angora Love they have a goat instead of a dog, which they have to hide from their host. Charlie Hall, who embodies the innkeeper in this version, was seen in the 1929 film as the drunken man who knocked on the duo's door. Harry Bernard played the role of the policeman in both Angora Love and Laughing Gravy , only with different assignments: In Angora Love, Bernard's policeman thinks the innkeeper has stolen the goat and arrests him; here he hangs up the disease shield instead.

Laughing Gravy and Be Big , another Laurel and Hardy short from 1931, were shot simultaneously in Spanish and French. Because dubbing barely worked around the world at the beginning of the sound film era, Laurel and Hardy had to speak their text in these parallel films in broken Spanish and French. Both short films were mixed together to make one feature film in Spain and France.

German versions

  • In the Berliner Synchron was entitled Laurel and Hardy in 1000 needs a first German version. The dialogues were written by Bodo Francke, Walter Bluhm spoke by Stan Laurel and Clemens Hasse took on the role of Oliver Hardy.
  • In 1961, the Munich Beta-Technik created another version under the title Dick and Doof - Come to the Dog . The dialogues came from Wolfgang Schick , directed by Manfred R. Köhler and the music was contributed by Conny Schumann. Walter Bluhm spoke to Stan again and Arno Paulsen lent Ollie his voice.
  • The MGM dubbing department created a third version with the title Man's best friend . This time Michael Günther wrote the lyrics. While Walter Bluhm spoke again to Stan, Ollie can now hear Gerd Duwner .
  • For the series Dick und Doof , the film was provided with comments by Hanns Dieter Hüsch and ran under the title All dogs love Stan , obviously based on the family series All dogs love Theobald, which was also broadcast on ZDF . The Munich version was used.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Laughing Gravy. In: lordheath.com. April 4, 2015, accessed July 28, 2018 .
  2. ↑ The dog "Laughing Gravy". In: lordheath.com. April 17, 2017, accessed July 28, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b c Norbert Aping: Das kleine Dick-und-Doof-Buch . Schüren, Marburg 2014, Appendix pp. 303–306.