Comedy
Sons of the Desert
THEIR NEW FULL-LENGTH FEATURE PICTURE!
Ollie and Stan deceive their wives into thinking they are taking a medically necessary cruise when they are really going to a lodge convention.
Part of the Laurel & Hardy: The Definitive Restorations →Trailer
Top Cast
Stan Laurel
Stanley 'Stan' Laurel
Oliver Hardy
Oliver 'Ollie' Hardy
Mae Busch
Mrs. Lottie Hardy
Dorothy Christy
Mrs. Betty Laurel
Charley Chase
Charley
Lucien Littlefield
Dr. Horace Meddick
Ernie Alexander
Waiter (uncredited)
Brooks Benedict
A Son of the Desert (uncredited)
Directed by
William A. Seiter
Production
Reviews
John Chard
9/108/27/2015
Honolulu Baby! As members of the mason mens club The Sons Of The Desert, Stan & Ollie are desperate to go away to one of the clubs conventions in Chicago. This idea is given the no no from the boys' wives {Mae Busch & Dorothy Christy}, so Ollie fakes ill health and the boys wangle a supposed sea voyage to aid his recovery. Of course they head to Chicago for their boys own fun, unbeknown to them that the ship they had told their wives they were travelling on has sunk at sea! I think this stands the test of time as one of the best Laurel & Hardy pictures because it's one of the most professional that they made. Laurel wasn't wholly satisfied with a couple of preceding features that they did, he felt it was becoming slapstick for slapstick's sake, so in came a new writing team to work w
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