Some of Laurel and Hardy's full-length movies lack the brilliance of their "shorts" but this is spot on throughout. Stan does not remember Ollie any longer and throws him out the window as well. Stan and Ollie take a trip into the mountains ('the high multitude') so that Ollie can recover from gout. The thankful bank president sends them to Oxford to get an education. One of the students (Henry Borden) dresses as a ghost to frighten Stan and Ollie, and while they sit on a bench to sleep, the ghost's hand comes through the hedge to help Stan smoke his pipe and cigar (substituting for Stan's actual hand). Stan and Ollie are down to their last six bucks. A 20-minute version created for television distribution is entitled Alter Ego. This FAQ is empty. This movie is a wonderful anglo-American co-operation just like the military alliance which, thankfully, meant that comedy could continue. Great fun to watch some fine Laurel and Hardy set-pieces, wrecking an elite dinner party, foiling a bank robbery, being run over the coals twice during university initiation and finally Stan overcoming amnesia to discover he was once a prized Oxford great.


When that ends in disaster, they resort to sweeping streets and accidentally capture a bank robber. More details at Not so much a parody of the nonsensically moralising A Yank at Oxford as an amiable shaggy-dog romp through the usual Laurel and Hardy routines. Click here to login or here to sign up. Laurel & Hardy are down on their luck after spectacularly failing as domestic servants (with Stan in drag as a maid) and find themselves literally "in the gutter" working as road-sweepers. Pour une meilleure expérience sur MUBI, Mettez à jour votre navigateur .

Report this film, Cinematic Time Capsule1940 Marathon - Film #11, ”You know what the trouble is don’t ya?We’re never had no education”. You can review our cookie policy to learn more. Johnson poses as the dean and gives Stan and Ollie the real dean's quarters to live in.

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He nicknames Ollie "Fatty" and criticises him, which makes Ollie so angry he quits his job and storms out.

After that ends in disaster, they're reduced to sweeping streets, and accidentally capture a bank robber. The list….

After reaching Merry Old England they are immediately met by a bunch of middle aged looking students including one Peter Cushing, I know…. [1] They are sent off into a maze and quickly became lost. At the dinner party, Stan is told to take the cocktails, but instead of clearing them away, he drinks them and becomes drunk. Cast. ; Video Treasures (Firm);] -- When street sweepers Laurel & Hardy thwart a bank robbery, they're rewarded by a chance to go to Oxford University. But then a knock on the head gets Stan to believing he's the famed Lord Paddington, scholar and athlete extraordinaire. That "I didn't like that double-chin crack!"

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