Call of the Cuckoo (1927)

Cautiously Recommended

USA

Short Film

Director: Clyde Bruckman

Writer: H.M. Walker

Cinematographer: Floyd Jackman

Cast: Max Davidson, "Spec" O'Donnell, Lillian Elliott, Leo Willis, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charley Chase, James Finlayson

Desperate to sell their home to get away from their sanity-challenged neighbours – the residents of an asylum: Messrs Laurel, Hardy, Chase, and Finlayson – the Gimplewarts accept an offer for a house swap, based on photographic evidence alone, and soon find themselves living in a crumbling, built-in-two-days, should-be-condemned wreck, ill-prepared for their imminent sure-to-be-disastrous housewarming dinner party, in this generally entertaining if unremarkable silent comedy. Iain.Stott