Leave 'Em Laughing

Leave 'Em Laughing
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Clyde Bruckman
Produced by	Hal Roach
Written by	Reed Heustis Hal Roach
Starring	Stan Laurel Oliver Hardy
Music by	Evie Greene
Cinematography	George Stevens
Edited by	Richard C. Currier
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer DIC Entertainment (1990)
Release dates	January 28, 1928 (1928-01-28)
Running time	21 minutes
Language	Silent film English (Original intertitles)

Leave 'Em Laughing is a 1928 two-reel silent film starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Produced by the Hal Roach Studios, it was shot in October, 1927 and released January 28, 1928 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

It marks the first appearance of Edgar Kennedy in a Laurel and Hardy film.

Chapters of The Sons of the Desert (the international Laurel and Hardy Appreciation Society) take their names from the duo's films. Leave 'Em Laughing chapters are currently located in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the Twin Cities, Minnesota and Jacksonville, Florida.

Opening title

What's worse than an aching tooth at three in the morning? -- Two of them --

Plot

The scene opens in the duo's flat at night time. Stan complains that he has a toothache. Ollie goes to the bathroom to get him a hot-water bottle and keeps stepping on a tack which is lying around. When Stan gets the water bottle, the lid opens and the water pours out in the bed. The two of them make much noise and the landlord (Charlie Hall) comes in, telling them that they will have to leave first thing in the morning.

The next day, Stan is in the dentist office, but is too afraid to get his tooth pulled. The dentist leaves and Ollie demonstrates how Stan should sit and not be afraid. Meanwhile, the dentist tells one of his partners that he should go to the guy who is sitting in the chair and pull his tooth out. He ended up pulling Ollie's tooth. When Stan is back in the chair, he knocks over a gas cartridge which makes everyone laugh.

Stan and Ollie leave the office and go to their car, still laughing their heads off from the gas.

Cast

Stan Laurel - Stan
Oliver Hardy - Ollie
Charlie Hall - Landlord
Edgar Kennedy - Cop
Dorothy Coburn, Viola Richard - Nurses
Edgar Dearing, Al Hallett, Sam Lufkin, Tiny Sandford - Dental patients
Otto Fries - Burly Dentist
Jack Lloyd - Dentist
Jack Hill - Irate Motorist (uncredited)

Remake

Leave 'Em Laughing was remade by The Three Stooges in 1943, as "I Can Hardly Wait".^[1]

References

↑ Solomon, Jon. (2002) The Complete Three Stooges: The Official Filmography and Three Stooges Companion, p. 233; Comedy III Productions, Inc., ISBN 0-9711868-0-4

External links

Leave 'Em Laughing at the Internet Movie Database
Leave 'Em Laughing at AllMovie
Leave 'Em Laughing at Rotten Tomatoes

Laurel and Hardy

Stan Laurel Oliver Hardy

Stan Laurel filmography Oliver Hardy filmography Combined filmography Laurel and Hardy (animated series) Music The Sons of the Desert

Laurel and Hardy filmography

Silent short films (starring roles)	The Lucky Dog (1921) Duck Soup (1927) Slipping Wives (1927) Love 'em and Weep (1927) Why Girls Love Sailors (1927) With Love and Hisses (1927) Sugar Daddies (1927) Sailors, Beware! (1927) The Second Hundred Years (1927) Hats Off (1927) Do Detectives Think? (1927) Putting Pants on Philip (1927) The Battle of the Century (1927) Leave 'Em Laughing (1928) Flying Elephants (1928) The Finishing Touch (1928) From Soup to Nuts (1928) You're Darn Tootin' (1928) Their Purple Moment (1928) Should Married Men Go Home? (1928) Early to Bed (1928) Two Tars (1928) Habeas Corpus (1928) We Faw Down (1928) Liberty (1929) Wrong Again (1929) That's My Wife (1929) Big Business (1929) Double Whoopee (1929) Bacon Grabbers (1929) Angora Love (1929)

Talking short films (starring roles)	Unaccustomed As We Are (1929) Berth Marks (1929) Men O' War (1929) Perfect Day (1929) They Go Boom (1929) The Hoose-Gow (1929) Night Owls (1930) Blotto (1930) Brats (1930) Below Zero (1930) Hog Wild (1930) The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case (1930) Another Fine Mess (1930) Be Big! (1931) Chickens Come Home (1931) Laughing Gravy (1931) Our Wife (1931) Come Clean (1931) One Good Turn (1931) Beau Hunks (1931) Helpmates (1932) Any Old Port! (1932) The Music Box (1932) The Chimp (1932) County Hospital (1932) Scram! (1932) Their First Mistake (1932) Towed in a Hole (1932) Twice Two (1933) Me and My Pal (1933) The Midnight Patrol (1933) Busy Bodies (1933) Dirty Work (1933) Oliver the Eighth (1934) Going Bye-Bye! (1934) Them Thar Hills (1934) The Live Ghost (1934) Tit for Tat (1935) The Fixer Uppers (1935) Thicker than Water (1935)

Short films (as guests)	45 Minutes from Hollywood (1926) Now I'll Tell One (1927) Call of the Cuckoo (1927) The Stolen Jools (1931) On the Loose (1931) Wild Poses (1933) On the Wrong Trek (1936) Galaxy of Stars (1936) The Tree in a Test Tube (1942)

Feature films (starring roles)	Pardon Us (1931) Pack Up Your Troubles (1932) Fra Diavolo / The Devil's Brother / Bogus Bandits (1933) Sons of the Desert (1933) Babes in Toyland (1934) Bonnie Scotland (1935) The Bohemian Girl (1936) Our Relations (1936) Way Out West (1937) Swiss Miss (1938) Block-Heads (1938) The Flying Deuces (1939) A Chump at Oxford (1940) Saps at Sea (1940) Great Guns (1941) A-Haunting We Will Go (1942) Air Raid Wardens (1943) Jitterbugs (1943) The Dancing Masters (1943) The Big Noise (1944) Nothing But Trouble (1944) The Bullfighters (1945) Atoll K / Utopia (1951)

Feature films (as guests)	The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929) The Rogue Song (1930) Hollywood Party (1934) Pick a Star (1937)

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