Oliver the Eighth
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| Oliver The Eighth | |
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| Directed by | Lloyd French |
| Produced by | Hal Roach |
| Starring | Stan Laurel Oliver Hardy |
| Cinematography | Art Lloyd |
| Editing by | Bert Jordan |
| Distributed by | MGM |
| Release date(s) |  January 13, 1934 December 27, 1965 |
| Running time | 27 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
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Oliver The Eighth is a 1934 short film comedy starring Laurel and Hardy. It was directed by Lloyd French, produced by Hal Roach and distributed by MGM.
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[edit] Story
Barbers Laurel and Hardy advertise for a soulmate; while posting their letters, Ollie posts his letter instead of Stan's. Ollie is successful in his plight, and is offered marriage. Unfortunately, the woman involved is a mass murderess, who has previously killed seven other men by the name of Oliver after she was jilted on the eve of her wedding by a man of the same Christian name years earlier; she vowed she would take revenge on every other Oliver that crosses her path afterwards. Stan joins Ollie at the woman's mansion after selling the barbershop for a gold brick and some nuts. The woman reveals her murderous intentions to the boys; they find a gun in the bedroom they are staying in. Ollie gets knocked out by the gold brick and is about to have his throat cut when at that moment, it is all revealed as a dream, with Ollie having fallen asleep in the barber's chair.
[edit] Cast
- Stan Laurel
- Oliver Hardy
- Mae Busch
- Jack Barty
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[edit] Trivia
- This was Laurel and Hardy's last three-reel comedy.
- It's British title was ' The Private Life of Oliver the Eighth ', a pun on the film The Private Life of Henry VIII. The title and the plot of Laurel & Hardy's film are similar to this Alexander Korda movie.
- Laurel tries to sell his barber shop for some nuts and a gold bar. He is advised to keep the gold "until the U.S returns to the Gold standard." This dated joke referenced the fact that the U.S. had left the Gold standard in 1933 due to The Great Depression.
- The snooker game with invisible cues and balls was evoked in an episode of Only Fools And Horses, "Friday the 14th".
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