Laurel and Hardy are celebrating the opening of their electrical hardware shop. When they discover that the grocery next door is run by Charlie Hall and Mae Busch's characters from THEM THAR HILLS, you know there's going to be a constant, slow-paced game of.... well, take a look at the title.
It's the Boys' second Oscar-nominated short, and while it didn't win, given that the winner was HOW TO SLEEP, it's no disgrace.
Hall, like Stan Laurel, was a veteran of the Fred Karno pantomime company, as were Charlie Chaplin, Will Hay, and about half of the Chaplin imitators of the 1910s. Hall entered the film industry in 1921, and by the time he died in 1959 at age 60, he had appeared in more than two hundred short subjects and a hundred features.
It's the Boys' second Oscar-nominated short, and while it didn't win, given that the winner was HOW TO SLEEP, it's no disgrace.
Hall, like Stan Laurel, was a veteran of the Fred Karno pantomime company, as were Charlie Chaplin, Will Hay, and about half of the Chaplin imitators of the 1910s. Hall entered the film industry in 1921, and by the time he died in 1959 at age 60, he had appeared in more than two hundred short subjects and a hundred features.