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Busy Bodies is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Lloyd French released in USA on 7 october 1933 with Stan Laurel
Busy Bodies (1933)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 7 october 1933
Length 19minutes
Directed by Lloyd French
OriginUSA
Genres Comedy
Themes Buddy films
Rating75%
Busy Bodies is a 1933 short comedy film starring Laurel and Hardy.
Synopsis
Stan and Ollie arrive in high spirits for their new jobs at the sawmill (Laurel operates a phonograph installed in the car as a kind of primitive "radio"). After walking into planks of wood Stan traps Ollie's hands in a window frame. After freeing him they trick a shop worker (Charlie Hall) into smoking despite a "No Smoking" sign. Stan then tears a strip off Ollie's pants with a plane and in the resulting 'tit for tat' dips a paintbrush in glue and sticks it onto Ollie's chin. Finding it is not possible to pull it off he prepares like a barber and shaves it with a plane. Ollie then gets propelled through a ventilator duct and out of an attic vent port.Actors
Stan Laurel
(Stan)
Oliver Hardy
(Ollie)
Charlie Hall
(Shop Worker (uncredited))
Tiny Sandford
(Shop Foreman (uncredited))
Jack Hill
(un employé)
Jack Hill
(Shop Worker)
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Rating75%
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