Pardon Us (1931)

Cautiously Recommended

USA

Short Feature Film

Director: James Parrott

Writer: H.M. Walker

Cinematographer: Jack Stevens

Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, June Marlowe, Wilfred Lucas, James Finlayson, Walter Long, Stanley J. Sanford, Otto Fries

In this sporadically entertaining though rather drawn-out and decidedly patchy Laurel and Hardy film, Stan and Ollie, freshly convicted of boot-legging, find adapting to prison life decidedly difficult, due in no small part to Stan’s loose tooth, which makes a raspberry-like noise every time he speaks, constantly getting him and his rotund chum into trouble with the guards and their fellow inmates alike – as for the escape attempts… Iain.Stott