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Night Owls is a american film of genre Comedy directed by James Gibbons Parrott released in USA on 4 january 1930 with Stan Laurel
Night Owls (1930)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 4 january 1930
Length 20minutes
Directed by James Gibbons Parrott
OriginUSA
Genres Comedy
Themes Buddy films
Rating74%
Night Owls is a 1930 American Pre-Code Laurel and Hardy short film. It was filmed in October and November 1929, and released January 4, 1930. The film was also made in two foreign-language versions: Ladrones in Spanish and Ladroni in Italian. The foreign versions retained not only the headliners, but Edgar Kennedy and James Finlayson as well.
Synopsis
Police officer Edgar Kennedy is warned by his Police chief to make arrests to stop a burglary epidemic on his patch or face the sack. Kennedy comes across vagrants Laurel and Hardy that night and persuades them to rob the chief's house to get in his boss's good books. The boys, believing it to be too dangerous, at first refuse. After Kennedy threatens them with ninety days in "the rockpile," and assures them he will get them released after they're caught, they agree to the ruse. Stan and Ollie encounter various problems but after various complications, the chief catches Kennedy with various valuables in his house, while the boys manage somehow to escape.Actors
Stan Laurel
(Stan)
Oliver Hardy
(Ollie)
Edgar Kennedy
(Officer Kennedy)
James Finlayson
(Meadows)
Anders Randolf
(Police Chief)
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