Laurel and Hardy: Why Girls Love Sailors
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Why Girls Love Sailors |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1927 |
| length | 20 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Fred L. Guiol |
| script | Hal Roach |
| production | Hal Roach |
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Why Girls Love Sailors (English for "Why girls love sailors") is an American silent film from 1927 with the comedian duo Laurel and Hardy in the lead roles. The film had its world premiere on July 17, 1927.
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The happiness of the engaged Willie Brisling and the "little" Nelly is suddenly destroyed when the captain of a ship, who once had a love affair with Nelly, kidnaps them onto his ship. Willie does everything possible to get his lover back. So he sneaks onto the ship that has just called at the port and initially disguises himself as a woman in order to overwhelm and get rid of a large number of the sailors. At the end he impresses the captain in order to distract him and free Nelly. That goes well until the captain's right wife comes on the ship and is appalled by what is going on. She gives her unfaithful husband hell with a shotgun, but doesn’t shy away from chasing a bullet after Willie, who has just escaped with Nelly.
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Why Girls Love Sailors was made between January 31 and February 19, 1927 at Hal Roach Studios in Culver City and was supposed to be a parody of the pirate films popular at the time.
The film was never performed throughout the German-speaking world in the cinema and worked for the German-speaking public only after its release on videotape accessible 1995 While it was in the seventies "with the series Men Two Laurel and Hardy " given the opportunity, the old Laurel- and Hardy movies, but it didn't include Why Girls Love Sailors . The reason for this is that the full film was only rediscovered in Paris in 1971 and was only available as a French version. In addition to French texts, this also offered additional illustrations in the subtitles, which were also retained in the translation into English.
The film was also one of those that had to be massively edited in the seventies, especially when it came to opening tables and subtitles. Some of these had to be redesigned and produced or, if possible, copied as faithfully as possible.
A gag that was reused in the later film Putting Pants On Philip is the one in which Laurel's dress or skirt is whirled up. In Why Girls Love Sailors this happens through a pistol shot, in the latter film through a subway shaft.