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Charley Rogers (original story and screenplay) &Felix Adler (original story and screenplay) ...
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25 January 1940 (Australia) morePlot:
With Stan in drag, the boys get jobs as a butler and maid for a dinner party at the Vandevere's. After that ends in disaster... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
Funny! more (25 total)Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Stan Laurel | ... | Stan / Lord Paddington |
 | Oliver Hardy | ... | Ollie |
 | Wilfred Lucas | ... | Dean Williams |
| Forbes Murray | ... | Banker |
| Frank Baker | ... | Dean's servant |
| Eddie Borden | ... | Student ghost |
| Gerald Rogers | ... | Student (Johnson) |
| Victor Kendall | ... | Student (Cecil) |
| Gerald Fielding | ... | Student (Brown) |
| Charlie Hall | ... | Student (Hector) (as Charles Hall) |
 | Peter Cushing | ... | Student (Jones) |
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Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)Fun Stuff
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I remember watching this on BBC2 when I was about 8 years old and finding it hysterical. So, much to my pleasure, Universal has released it on DVD (Region 2 only) along with many other Laurel and Hardy movies. I chose to watch the black and white version as that is how I originally saw it.
There is an extended opening featuring a remake of 1928's 'From Soup to Nuts' short in which Stan and Ollie cause havoc at a swanky dinner party before being employed as street sweepers. During their sweeping lunch break they inadvertently foil a bank robbery and as a reward they are sent to Oxford for a good education, perhaps finally getting them out of the gutter.
Once there, the students (including a young Peter Cushing) play all sorts of pranks on them and Stan loses (or restores) his memory when he is hit on the back of the head. Now he's Lord Paddington (I must add he does brilliantly with the accent) and he gives Ollie some amount of grief for his weight.
Very funny indeed, I suggest you check it out whenever it comes on TV.