Laurel and Hardy: Easy prey

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Movie
German title Easy loot
Original title Duck Soup
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1927
length 20 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Fred L. Guiol
script HM Walker ,
Stan Laurel
production Hal Roach
occupation

Leichte Beute (Original title: Duck Soup ) is a short film comedy from 1927 with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy in the leading roles. The premiere took place on March 13, 1927. The film was the second collaboration between the later duo Laurel and Hardy .

action

James Hives and Marmaduke Maltravers are tramps. A newspaper article announced that all tramps were being recruited by the local sheriff to fight forest fires. To avoid this work, the two flee on a stolen bicycle and hide in the house of a wealthy colonel who is on a safari and has asked his servants to rent his house to third parties for the time of his absence. But this would like to prepare a nice weekend for the time being and leaves the house empty for the time being, with a note on the front door. So Hives and Maltravers have free rein and can enjoy themselves in the Colonel's house. However, interested parties soon arrive and find no notice on the front door, as it was previously removed by Hives. The two tramps decide to pretend to be a colonel and a maid in order to do justice to the situation. This works out fine for now, until the right colonel returns to retrieve forgotten paraphernalia. He is furious about the spectacle and pulls out his weapon to drive the strangers out of his house. Ultimately, Hives and Maltravers are not spared putting out forest fires in muggy weather.

background

Duck Soup was made between September 20 and October 2, 1926 and was filmed on the corner of Culver Boulevard and Main Street in Los Angeles , California . The film is based on the sketch Home from the Honeymoon by Arthur J. Jefferson, Stan Laurel's father. The same sketch also served as the basis for the Laurel and Hardy sound film Another Fine Mess in 1930 . Duck Soup is special in the duo's history in that it is their first time as a team in a film.

In Germany, the short film was never shown in the cinema and was only shown once as an excerpt on television. It first appeared on a German video film in 1995. This is probably due to the fact that the two-act film disappeared shortly after its first performance and was only rediscovered in Europe in 1974. It was a great difficulty to restore the reels of film that had appeared, among other things, the opening credits and the subtitles had to be partially redesigned. This did not just affect Duck Soup , but a number of other films by Laurel and Hardy from the 1920s .

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. Digital attachments. File # 5, page 7
  2. ↑ Stan Laurel biography
  3. ↑ The Dick and Doof Book. Book text. Page 25f
  4. ↑ The Dick and Doof Book. Book text. Page 531