Laurel and Hardy: Slipping Wives
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Slipping wives |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1927 |
| length | 23 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Fred Guiol |
| script | Hal Roach , HM Walker ( subtitles ) |
| production | Hal Roach |
| camera | George Stevens |
| cut | Richard Currier |
| occupation | |
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Slipping Wives ( dt . "Unfounded Women") is a short film comedy starring the comic duo Oliver Hardy and Stan Laurel in 1927. The premiere was on April 3, 1927 in the US and on 19 June 1929 in Germany.
action
Priscilla is married to the artist Leon, but he has not shown any interest in her for some time. When one day a workman rings her doorbell, she decides to hire him, much to the displeasure of her butler, to cheat on her husband with him. To do this, however, the butler has to bathe him and prepare him for the evening party. During this time, she told her husband every detail of her alleged affair with the craftsman . He is jealous and furious and wants to take out his rival with a gun. As if by chance, the craftsman receives a machine gun and is so startled by the shots from it that he flees the house. In the end, a policeman follows him and shouts: “You nearly blew my brains out”, turns around and you can see him with his buttocks tattered pants. Meanwhile, the couple hugs in love like on the first day.
background
Slipping Wives was the duo's third collaboration after the films The Lucky Dog and Duck Soup . The film was shot at Hal Roach Studios in Culver City , California in late October and early November 1926 . Like all films since the two previously mentioned had Hal Roach also this American US for distribution by the film company Pathé Exchange Inc. produces. At the end of the twenties there had been various disputes between Roach and the rental company, which is why the producer changed the distributor in 1927.
In mid-June 1929, the short film was submitted to the film inspection agency and approved a little later, albeit with the condition "prohibited for young people", which is probably due to the adultery in the film. Slipping Wives was part of the program for the 1929/1930 season of the German Ufa rental company .
Web links
- Laurel and Hardy: Slipping Wives in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Slipping Wives on AllMovie
- Slipping wives on rotten tomatoes
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 )