

There is a happy re-union, and The banker drops charges and asks that they be guests for dinner. Brought to the banker so he could identify them as the thieves, it is discovered that HE is the Mr. The boys head home to hide Eddie's baby in a dumbwaiter, but she is found anyhow. The man says he will return with police to take Eddie's baby, and have the boys arrested.They try to secure a loan, but the banker has no desire to loan money to the operators of a mere diner, so when he is knocked out by ceiling plaster, they steal the money. Operating a diner while searching, the boys are approached by an unpleasant man (Charles Middleton) who asks them to hand Eddie's baby over to him, to be placed in the orphanage. Two attempts at face-to-face meetings, result in riling up a prize fighter and disrupting a wedding, so the boys resort to telephoning. The task proves both monumental and problematic as the boys discover just how many people in New York have the last name "Smith".

While serving in the trenches of France, the pair befriend a man named Eddie Smith, who is killed in action by the Imperial German Army.In the same battle, the boys manage to capture several enemy soldiers, in a rather unusual way.Īfter the War is over, Stan and Ollie venture to New York City, where they begin a quest to reunite Eddie's baby daughter (Jacquie Lyn) with her rightful family.

While in prison, they are threatened by the cook, also jailed due to their "snitching", with violence, once he is out and has his knife again. Misunderstanding the cook's instructions on disposing of the garbage cans results in dumping the garbage in the general's private dining room. The two mess up badly during drilling, anatgonizing the drill seargent (James Finlayson) and wind up in kitchen police. The film begins in 1917 with Stan (Stan Laurel) and Ollie (Oliver Hardy) being drafted into the American Expeditionary Force to fight in World War I.
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They starred in 40 short sound films, 32 short silent films, 23 full length feature films and in the remaining 11 films made a guest or cameo appearance. In total they appeared together in 106 films. They made their last film, Atoll K, in France in 19 before retiring from the screen.

From 1945 to 1950 they did not appear on film and concentrated on their stage show. The pair left the Roach studio in 1940, then appeared in eight "B" comedies for 20th Century Fox and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer from 1941 to 1944. Among their most popular and successful films were the features Sons of the Desert (1933), Way Out West (1937), and Block-Heads (1938) and the shorts Big Business (1929), Liberty (1929), and their Academy Award-winning short, The Music Box (1932). Laurel and Hardy officially became a team the following year, and soon became Hal Roach's most famous and lucrative stars.
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After a period appearing separately in several short films for the Hal Roach studio during the 1920s, they began appearing in movie shorts together in 1926. The two comedians worked together briefly in 1917 on The Lucky Dog. The duo is considered one of the most iconic and finest double acts in motion picture history. They became famous during the early half of the 20th century for their work in motion pictures, and also appeared on stage throughout America and Europe. Laurel and Hardy were the popular American-based comedy team of thin, British-born Stan Laurel (1890-1965) and heavy, American-born Oliver Hardy (1892-1957).
