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Ollie agrees but predictably makes Stan the fighter and himself the manager. After fleeing the hotel, the boys find out they've left their money in their room, but an old pal of Ollie's offers $50 if Ollie will fight in a boxing ring that night. The owner Mugsie Long intends to marry a young girl against her wishes, but Stan and Ollie come to her rescue. Sailors Laurel and Hardy disembark and book in a sleazy hotel. Charles Gemora, who plays the gorilla, had six years earlier appeared in the title role of a Laurel and Hardy theatrical short called The Chimp.Īny Old Port! is a 1932 short film starring Laurel and Hardy, directed by James W.Horne and produced by Hal Roach. The bomb in the piano gag would later be used in a Bugs Bunny/Yosemite Sam cartoon Ballot Box Bunny. A musical number in the cheese shop was also removed only a few lyrics remain in the film. A drunken Stan is seen touching the piano keys during the piano delivery sequence involving the gorilla Laurel initially thought the inclusion of the bomb would give the scene more power. Always a large creative force behind the camera, Laurel objected to Roach's removing scenes, including the addition of a bomb in the composer's piano, where the tapping of a particular key would set it off. Producer Hal Roach is said to have indulged in artistic interference during the film's editing, much to Stan Laurel's exasperation.As they leave the hotel & village, they are then confronted by the vengeful gorilla (on crutches) who hurls his crutch at them before they depart, running. The boys overpower the hotel's burly chef and visit the singer, only to discover that she is indeed married to the composer. The next day, the rivalry comes to a head with a wild chase.

The angry chef douses Hardy with a pitcher of water and then threatens the boys. The boys have some fun with the 'musical' bubbles.Īlso in love with the opera singer, the chef sees Hardy as a rival, especially after he was awakened by Stanley playing the tuba outside his window (the boys thinking that it was the singer's window) and Hardy singing to serenade her. Assigned to wash the stairs, the boys inadvertently dump soap water into the organ pipes and this causes the music to be accompanied by bubbles as the composer works on his latest piece. The smashing of the piano obliges the composer to use the large organ near the staircase, until a replacement is delivered.

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This struggle ends with the bridge breaking and the portable piano & gorilla plunging into the abyss. Various mis-adventures ensue (including Laurel getting drunk on a St.Bernard's keg of whiskey, a confrontation with a local street musician's gorilla on a perilously-perched rope bridge, while carting a small piano over it to an isolated cliff house so the composer can work there in peace). A Viennese composer present at the hotel is disrupted by the presence of his wife - an opera singer who upstages him constantly Ollie subsequently falls in love with her. They also had antagonized and insulted the chef, who tells them that for each dish they break they work another day. On top of that, a cheese shop owner cons them out of their wares with a bogus banknote, and they are forced to work as dishwashers in a nearby hotel after ordering a slap-up meal they are unable to pay for. While visiting one village, they find the villagers unresponsive. Stan and Ollie are mousetrap salesmen hoping for better business in Switzerland, with Stan's theory that because there is more cheese in Switzerland, there should be more mice. It also features Walter Woolf King, Della Lind and Eric Blore in support. Blystone, produced by Hal Roach and starring Laurel and Hardy. Swiss Miss, is a 1938 comedy film directed by John G.