Scram! (1932)

Recommended

USA

Short Film

Director: Ray McCarey

Writer: H.M. Walker

Cinematographer: Art Lloyd

Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Richard Cramer, Arthur Housman, Vivien Oakland

With its jails completely full, Judge Beaumont orders a pair of vagrants to leave town in lieu of the charge’s usual 180 day sentence, but instead Stan and Ollie hook up with a drunken millionaire, who offers them a place to stay for the night – cue dropped car keys, lost house keys, mistaken identity, more booze, and an unwelcome reacquainting with the judge, in this hugely entertaining, oft hilarious Laurel and Hardy short. Iain.Stott