Directed by:
James ParrottCast:
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson, Walter Long, Boris Karloff, James Parrott, Gordon Douglas, Hal Roach, Frank Holliday, Blackie Whiteford, Bobby Dunn (more)VOD (1)
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Two-reel comedy favorites Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy made their feature-film debut (excluding their guest appearances in Hollywood Revue of 1929 and Rogue Song) in the prison comedy Pardon Us. A spoof of MGM's The Big House, the story begins when erstwhile bootleggers Laurel and Hardy sell a bottle of beer to a Prohibition agent. Shipped off to the pen, our heroes are escorted to the cell occupied by "The Tiger" (Walter Long), the toughest con in the joint. The Tiger immediately becomes the boys' best friend when he mistakes Laurel's loose-tooth "buzz" as an act of defiance! Swept up in one of The Tiger's escape attempts, Laurel and Hardy disguise themselves in blackface and lose themselves among the cotton-pickers in the Deep South, but Stan's buzzing tooth gives the game away when the warden's (Wilfred Lucas) car breaks down near the cotton fields. Carted back to jail, Stan and Ollie become heroes when they inadvertently foul up The Tiger's next prison break. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Stan Laurel
UK
Best movies:
Laurel and Hardy's Laughing 20's (1965) - a.f.
Our Relations (1936)
Pack Up Your Troubles (1932)
Oliver Hardy
USA
Best movies:
Laurel and Hardy's Laughing 20's (1965) - a.f.
Our Relations (1936)
Pack Up Your Troubles (1932)
James Finlayson
UK
Best movies:
Laurel and Hardy's Laughing 20's (1965) - a.f.
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
Feet First (1930)
Walter Long
USA
Best movies:
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Through the Ages (1916)
Union Pacific (1939)
Boris Karloff
UK
Best movies:
The General (1926)
Scarface (1932)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
James Parrott
USA
Gordon Douglas
USA
Hal Roach
USA
Best movies:
Sons of the Desert (1933)
Frank Holliday
USA
Best movies:
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
It Happened One Night (1934)
Lady for a Day (1933)
Blackie Whiteford
USA
Best movies:
Captain Blood (1935)
King Kong (1933)
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
Bobby Dunn
USA
Best movies:
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
Monkey Business (1931)
Our Relations (1936)
Otto Fries
USA
Best movies:
A Night at the Opera (1935)
Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938)
The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
Bob Kortman
USA
Best movies:
Sunrise (1927)
Ace in the Hole (1951)
Union Pacific (1939)
Charles Dorety
USA
Best movies:
Pack Up Your Troubles (1932)
When the Daltons Rode (1940)
Babes in Toyland (1934)
Will Stanton
UK
Best movies:
Fury (1936)
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
To Each His Own (1946)
Tiny Sandford
USA
Best movies:
The Great Dictator (1940)
Modern Times (1936)
The Circus (1928)
S.D. Wilcox
USA
Best movies:
The Kid (1921)
Sam Lufkin
USA
Best movies:
Safety Last! (1923)
Our Relations (1936)
The Flying Deuces (1939)
Baldwin Cooke
USA
Best movies:
Of Mice and Men (1939)
After the Thin Man (1936)
Our Relations (1936)
Gene Morgan
USA
Best movies:
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)