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Pardon Us is a american film of genre Comedy directed by James Gibbons Parrott released in USA on 15 august 1931 with Oliver Hardy

Pardon Us (1931)

Pardon Us
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Released in USA 15 august 1931
OriginUSA
Genres Comedy
Rating67% 3.3980853.3980853.3980853.3980853.398085

Pardon Us is a 1931 American Pre-Code Laurel and Hardy film. It was the duo's first feature length comedy film, produced by Hal Roach and Stan Laurel, directed by James Parrott, and originally distributed by MGM in 1931.

Synopsis

During Prohibition, beer barons Laurel and Hardy are sent to prison for concocting their own home brew. They are put in a cell with "Tiger" Long, the roughest, toughest and meanest of all inmates. Stan has a loose tooth that causes him to emit a razzberry at the end of every sentence; the inmate interprets this as a coolly defiant attitude and is impressed — nobody else ever stood up to him like that. He and Stan and Ollie become fast friends.

Actors

Oliver Hardy

(Oliver Norval Hardy)
Stan Laurel

(Stanley Laurel)
Walter Long

(The Tiger)
June Marlowe

(Warden's Daughter)
James Finlayson

(Schoolteacher)
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