You're Darn Tootin'
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| You're Darn Tootin' | |
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 Theatrical poster for You're Darn Tootin' (1928) |
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| Directed by | Edgar Kennedy |
| Produced by | Hal Roach |
| Written by | H.M. Walker (titles) |
| Starring | Stan Laurel Oliver Hardy |
| Cinematography | Floyd Jackman |
| Editing by | Richard C. Currier |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Release date(s) | April 21, 1928 |
| Running time | 20 min. |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | Silent film English (Original intertitles) |
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You're Darn Tootin' is a 1928 Laurel & Hardy short subject silent film, produced by Hal Roach and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
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[edit] Synopsis
In the short, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy play band musicians who lose their band jobs and home and become street musicians.
The movie is notable for the final sequence, where Laurel and Hardy's private argument of shin-kicking and pants-ripping eventually involves the whole neighborhood. In the end all persons involved (in front of the ABC Restaurant), are without pants and kicking each others leg.
The phrase "You're darn tootin'," when spoken, is meant to establish a similar belief to what the other party says (as in "You're darn right.")
The film was shown on the BBC Four programme Paul Merton's Silent Clowns in full with an original, specially composed, musical score.
[edit] Production
The short was directed by fellow film comedian Edgar Kennedy, here billed as "E.Livingston Kennedy". Scenes from this film were featured in several silent film compilations of the 1960s produced by Robert Youngson.
[edit] Cast
- Wilson Benge
- Chet Brandenburg
- Christian J. Frank
- Dick Gilbert
- Charlie Hall
- William Irving
- Ham Kinsey
- Otto Lederer
- Sam Lufkin
- George Rowe
- Frank Saputo
- Rolfe Sedan
- Agnes Steele
[edit] Revival
In 2005 the film was shown as part of the "Silent Comedy Greats" season viewed by an audience at the Rex Cinema, Berkhamsted. A specially composed piece of music to accompany the film was played by members of the Aylesbury Community Concert Band.
