Playing at Politics

Playing at Politics

"Alternate-language version of Chickens Come Home (1931)"

Ollie is running for mayor and an old flame threatens to blackmail him.

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June 25, 2016

An enjoyable oddity by Laurel and Hardy, in a Hal Roach experiment, in which entire versions of films were shot in other languages, with the stars learning their lines phonetically, to take advantage of foreign markets, before dubbing became the standard (and cheaper) way of doing things. From 'Laurel and Hardy: The Essential Collection: The Sound Films from the Hal Roach Studios'.