Laurel and Hardy: Pants for Philip

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Movie
German title see selection below
Original title Putting Pants On Philip
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1927
length 19 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Clyde Bruckman
script HM Walker ( subtitles )
production Hal Roach
camera George Stevens
cut Richard Currier
occupation

Putting Pants on Philip (dt. Philip pants tighten ) is a silent movie - comedy from 1927 with the comedy duo Laurel and Hardy in the lead roles. The film premiered on December 3, 1927, the German premiere took place on March 12, 1928 in Berlin.

action

Piedmont Mumblethunder is waiting for his Scottish nephew Philip at the harbor. Before that, he had already received a letter from his sister in Scotland warning him that Philip would go mad at the sight of a pretty girl. Philip, who traditionally wears a tartan skirt, quickly becomes a mockery of the people at Piedmont's side, which causes the latter to put on his nephew trousers. The fact that Philip is always chasing the same young woman soon sets in, which makes it even more difficult for Piedmont to get him in his pants. The film ends with Philip taking off his kilt to lay it over a mud hole and give the woman a comfortable transition. When shortly after this Piedmont wants to do the same, he immediately sinks into it.

background

The shootings for the film took place in September 1927 in various locations in Los Angeles and Culver City . The street scenes, for example, were shot on Culver Boulevard and on the approach to Main Street. Laurel himself described Putting Pants On Philip as the first real Laurel and Hardy film, even though it was also part of Hal Roach Studios' All Star series.

In Germany, the premiere took place on March 12, 1928 under the title "The Young Man from Foreign Lands" in the Gloria-Palast in Berlin . In 1963, the short film was broadcast by Werner Schwier as part of the series It may be laughed under the title “What are the Scots wearing there” on ARD . In 1968 a new performance followed in the Bali Film Theater in Munich under the title "Philip (p), pull the pants on". In 1970 and 1976 the film was shown twice on ZDF , once as “The Man in a Woman's Rock” and the second time as “A brutal purchase of pants”.

criticism

"The comedy The Young Man from a Foreign Country, which describes the experiences of a Scottish provincial in New York, shows the much-ridiculed situation comedy ."

- Film-Kurier No. 63, March 13, 1928

"A very clean, also imaginative, if not always so ingeniously composed grotesque, but which brings so much healthy humor that one laughs not insignificantly, whether intellectual or not, whether young man, old man with a stick."

- Reichsfilmblatt No. 11, March 17, 1928

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Dick and Doof Book. Digital attachments. File # 5, page 21
  2. ↑ The Dick and Doof Book. Book text. Page 29
  3. ↑ The Dick and Doof Book. Digital attachments. File # 5, page 22
  4. ↑ The Dick and Doof Book. Digital attachments. File # 5, page 23
  5. ↑ The Dick and Doof Book. Book text. Page 29, note in digital attachments. File # 1, page 4
  6. ↑ see previous individual references