Laurel and Hardy: Soft pear for dessert

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Movie
German title Soft pear for dessert
Original title Thicker than water
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1935
length 21 minutes
Rod
Director James W. Horne
script Stan Laurel ,
Frank Tashlin
production Hal Roach
camera Kind of Lloyd
cut Ray Snyder
occupation

For dessert pear soft (aka Thicker than water or Laurel and Hardy with the cuckoo clock ) is an American short film comedy directed by James W. Horne from the year 1935 . The comedian duo Laurel and Hardy plays the leading roles . It was the last short film by Laurel and Hardy, who then only made feature films.

action

At the beginning of the movie Ollie commanded by his domineering wife Daphne to cooperation with sub-tenant to do the washing up Stan. This ends in chaos, in which in the end all the plates are broken. Ellie's bad mood worsens when the angry auction manager Mr. Finlayson appears at the Hardy's: He's asking for some furniture that Ollie should have paid him long ago. It turns out that Ollie had given Stan the money to pay out Finlayson, but Stan paid his rent with the Hardys with the money instead. In a lengthy dialogue, Ollie and Daphne Stan have to explain the complicated situation several times so that he can understand it at all. Eventually Finlayson is paid off by Mrs. Hardy, which further weighs on the Hardy's already small fortune. Stan suggests to Ollie that he withdraw all his money from the bank and spend it all so the creditors ca n't take anything away from him. Because of their own inability, and to do a favor to a lady, Stan and Ollie at Finlayson's auction house buy a grandfather clock with almost all of the money , which is soon destroyed by a car in traffic.

Mrs. Hardy learns of the events at the bank and later through Finlayson. Vengeful, she makes her way home, where she knocks Ollie down with a frying pan. Ollie is then admitted to the hospital for a blood transfusion . In Stan the doctor finds a rather unwilling donor. The transfusion takes too much blood from Stan, so Ollie Stan should donate blood again. It goes on like this until Stan and Ollie leave the hospital: their looks, behavior, characteristics and clothes are "fused" together so that each has characteristics of the other. At the end of the now thin Ollie (Stan Laurel in Hardy's voice) speaks the sentence: "Here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!" and interrupts the howling of the now corpulent Stan (Oliver Hardy in Laurel's voice).

background

Over the course of their film careers, Stan and Ollie played their own children ( Brats ; 1930), their twin brothers ( Our Relations ; 1936), and their wives ( Twice Two ; 1933). Here they even merge into one another. Soft pear for dessert was the comedian duo's last “own” short film, if one does not count their cameo in the short film comedy On the Wrong Trek (1936) starring Charley Chase . The switch from short films to feature films, which Laurel and Hardy made since the early 1930s, was justified by studio boss Hal Roach with the falling demand for classic short films. In particular, Stan Laurel, the duo's creative head, was dissatisfied with the switch to feature films because he feared a loss of comedy.

The film was shot at Hal Roach Studios between July 1 and July 8, 1935. Directed by James W. Horne, who was also responsible for numerous other Laurel and Hardy films. The only 1.45 meter tall comedian Daphne Pollard was cast as Mrs. Hardy, who played Mrs. Hardy again a year later in Our Relations . On the set, Laurel first received a visit from his father, AJ Jefferson, on the set.

German versions

  • Dick und Doof with the cuckoo clock was the first German title under which the film first appeared in 1958. The German version was made at Elite-Film in Berlin. Walter Bluhm spoke to Stan and Herbert AE Böhme took over Ollie.
  • The second German version with the title Dick and Doof as financial geniuses was created in 1961 by Beta-Technik . The dialogues were written by Wolfgang Schick , directed by Manfred R. Köhler and the music by Conny Schumann. Walter Bluhm spoke to Stan Laurel and Arno Paulsen Oliver Hardy. Marianne Wischmann can be heard as Mrs. Daphne Hardy. This version is available on DVD.
  • The film was broadcast with comments by Hanns Dieter Hüsch under the title For dessert: Soft pears in the series Dick und Doof . The dubbed version from 1961 served as the basis.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ IMDb Trivia
  2. ^ A b Norbert Aping: Das kleine Dick-und-Doof-Buch Schüren, Marburg 2014, appendix p. 383f.