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Slipping Wives

  • Director: Fred Guiol
  • AMG Rating: starstarstar
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Movie Type: Comedy of Errors, Sex Comedy
  • Themes: Nothing Goes Right
  • Release Year: 1926
  • Country: US
  • Run Time: 18 minutes

Plot

A love-starved wife (Priscilla Dean) hires a dim-witted delivery man (Stan Laurel) to make love to her and revive the waning interest of her eccentric artist husband (Herbert Rawlinson). As might be expected, the makeshift gigolo manages to foul things up, disastrously confusing the identities of the husband and a family friend and ultimately reuniting the couple in spite of himself. This very early effort of the Laurel and Hardy team has them working very much out of character and mostly on their own as members of the "Hal Roach Comedy All-stars" along with once-prestigious dramatic performers Rawlinson and Dean. The focus is on the rubber-limbed Stan (who pulls off an inspired pantomime sequence illustrating the Biblical story of Sampson and Delilah), with Hardy in the supporting part of the estranged couple's irate butler. Stan and Ollie do manage to tangle a bit in vigorous slapstick involving fumbled paint cans and another fiasco in which Hardy is ordered to bathe and groom a severely skittery Laurel. The plot is a rough warm-up of sorts for one of the more mature duo's last sound shorts, The Fixer Uppers(1934). ~ All Movie Guide

Cast

Albert Conti - Hon. Winchester Squirtz; Priscilla Dean - Wife; Oliver Hardy - Butler; Herbert Rawlinson - Husband; Stan Laurel - Handyman

Credit

William Lambert - Costume Designer, Lewis R. Foster - First Assistant Director, Fred Guiol - Director, Richard C. Currier - Editor, George Stevens - Cinematographer, Hal Roach - Producer
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Slipping Wives

Theatrical poster for Slipping Wives (1927)
Directed by Fred Guiol
Produced by Hal Roach
Written by Hal Roach (story)
H.M. Walker (titles)
Starring Priscilla Dean
Oliver Hardy
Stan Laurel
Herbert Rawlinson
Albert Conti
Cinematography George Stevens
Editing by Richard C. Currier
Distributed by Pathé Exchange Inc.
Release date(s) June 12, 1927
Running time 23 min.
Country  United States
Language Silent film
English intertitles
Preceded by Duck Soup
Followed by Love 'em and Weep

Slipping Wives is a 1927 silent comedy short film starring Priscilla Dean, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy.

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Plot

Priscilla is married to an artist called Leon. However Leon isn't showing much interest in his wife so she hatches a plot to win back his affections. Ollie plays the butler. Stan arrives at the door to sell paint and has a fight with Ollie. Priscilla employs Stan to "Make love to her" and ensure Leon becomes jealous. Ollie has to wash and dress Stan and make him look presentable enough to fool Leon at a dinner party that night. Priscilla admits to Leon what she has done and he pulls a gun to teach the 'home-wrecker' a lesson. Leon corners Stan and admits he's just acting to make Priscilla think he's really jealous. Ollie doesn't realise this and he chases Stan out of the house with a rifle. Ollie returns looking shaken. A police officer follows him and says "You nearly blew my brains out". Leon and Priscilla hug.

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