Sailors, Beware!
Appearance
Sailors, Beware! | |
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Directed by | Fred Guiol Hal Yates |
Written by | Hal Roach H.M. Walker (titles) |
Produced by | Hal Roach |
Starring | Stan Laurel Oliver Hardy |
Distributed by | Pathé Exchange |
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Running time | 19' 51" |
Country | United States |
Languages | Silent film English intertitles |
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Sailors, Beware! is a silent comedy short film starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy prior to their official billing as the duo Laurel and Hardy. The team appeared in a total of 107 films between 1921 and 1951.
Plot
[edit]An upstanding taxi driver unknowingly picks up a woman and her accomplice, disguised as a baby, who are revealed to be criminals. Upon their departure without payment and leaving the meter running, the driver, Stan, pursues them onto a ship where he uncovers their nefarious activities.[1]
Cast
[edit]- Stan Laurel as Chester Chaste, cabdriver
- Oliver Hardy as Purser Cryder
- Anita Garvin as Madame Ritz
- Ed Brandenburg as Other cabdriver
- Frank Brownlee as Captain Bull
- Dorothy Coburn as Lady in an easy chair
- Gustav Schaffrath as Roger/The baby
- Connie Evans as Society lady
- Barbara Pierce as Society lady
- Viola Richard as Society lady
- Tiny Sandford as Man in robe
- Will Stanton as Baron Behr
- May Wallace as Society lady
- Charley Young as a Man boarding a boat
- Lupe Vélez as Baroness Behr (uncredited)
References
[edit]- ^ "Laurel and Hardy in Sugar Daddies". Archived from the original on September 20, 2011. Retrieved August 13, 2012.
External links
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Categories:
- 1927 films
- 1927 comedy films
- American black-and-white films
- Laurel and Hardy (film series)
- American silent short films
- Films with screenplays by H. M. Walker
- 1927 short films
- American comedy short films
- Films directed by Fred Guiol
- 1920s American films
- Silent American comedy films
- Short silent comedy film stubs