In order to claim an inheritance, the boys present themselves at a creaky, bat-filled mansion on a stormy night.In order to claim an inheritance, the boys present themselves at a creaky, bat-filled mansion on a stormy night.In order to claim an inheritance, the boys present themselves at a creaky, bat-filled mansion on a stormy night.
Frank Austin
- Butler
- (uncredited)
Stanley Blystone
- Detective
- (uncredited)
Bobby Burns
- Nervous Relative at Window
- (uncredited)
Jack Rube Clifford
- Detective
- (uncredited)
Rosa Gore
- Old Relative
- (uncredited)
Dorothy Granger
- Young Relative
- (uncredited)
Charlie Hall
- Unknown
- (uncredited)
Dell Henderson
- Housekeeper
- (uncredited)
Fred Kelsey
- Chief of Detectives
- (uncredited)
Lon Poff
- Old Relative
- (uncredited)
Art Rowlands
- Theater-goer Relative
- (uncredited)
Tiny Sandford
- Policeman
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- H.M. Walker
- Oliver Hardy(uncredited)
- Stan Laurel(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
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Did you know
- TriviaLike other early talkies, this film was reshot in other languages, with casts who spoke the language and Stan & Ollie learning their lines phonetically. In one of the foreign-language versions, the butler is played by Boris Karloff.
- GoofsAfter getting ready to go to bed, the boys drop the candle a few times, and it seemingly goes out. When they pick it up, it is lit again without them lighting it.
- Crazy creditsOpening credits prologue: Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy decided that they needed a rest - -
- They had been looking for work since 1921 -
- Alternate versionsThere is also a colorized version.
- ConnectionsAlternate-language version of Feu mon oncle (1930)
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One of the more ludicrous Laurel & Hardys; much uproarious fun.
This is another L & H short that deviates in some way from the general pattern of them; but this time, the central tennet is drastically different: the boys are implicated in a frankly absurd murder case. Dell Henderson's wonderfully creaking, slow turn, is a comic parody of horror movie 'housekeepers' and butlers before Universal horror really took off. I like the way an authority figure is sent up (as often in L & H); this time a bumbling, melodramatic detective, the actor hamming it up for all it was worth. There's barely a bone in this film's skeleton that isn't light and giddily brittle; only the early scene of Ollie musing on his friendship with Stan, the two of them sitting by the waterside, really seems like a typically L & H scene. And beautifully played and written it is too. It has that comic pathos that is entirely relinquished by the film from then on.
The remainder of this picture spirals off into the most obvious, overplayed silliness; but I loved it. Laurel and Hardy in a creaking, almost chuckling set, standing in for a haunted house; absurd, devilish do propagated by a leering, comatose housekeeper; predictable gags; a bat or two. Just bring it all to mind, and smile... give it a viewing some day, and I'm sure you'll be amused. "The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case" is a wonderfully enjoyable short; and a refreshing variant within their very consistent, fine work during this pre-feature length era.
Rating:- ****/*****
The remainder of this picture spirals off into the most obvious, overplayed silliness; but I loved it. Laurel and Hardy in a creaking, almost chuckling set, standing in for a haunted house; absurd, devilish do propagated by a leering, comatose housekeeper; predictable gags; a bat or two. Just bring it all to mind, and smile... give it a viewing some day, and I'm sure you'll be amused. "The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case" is a wonderfully enjoyable short; and a refreshing variant within their very consistent, fine work during this pre-feature length era.
Rating:- ****/*****
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- HenryHextonEsq
- May 4, 2003
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- Справа про вбивство Лорела-Гарді
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- Runtime30 minutes
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- 1.20 : 1
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By what name was The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case (1930) officially released in Canada in English?
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