Laurel & Hardy Knockabout Collection (3 Films)
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Synopsis
The Big
Noise
The duo play janitors accidently hired as sleuths to protect a
super-bomb destined for the war-department in Washington, D.C.
However, the bomb's inventor has loaded his house with crazy
contraptions that entrap and confuse the protectors. Meanwhile,
next door is the biggest threat of all - a gang of crooks
determined to get their hands on the inventor's deadly creation.
Through a series of crazy misadventures, our heroes end up in a
remote-controlled airplane, along with the bomb, and headed
straight for trouble!
Jitterbugs
Stan and Oliver star as a travelling two-man jitterbug band, who operate out of a dilapidated jalopy and form an unlikely partnership with a likeable con man (Bob Bailey). When the trio joins a carnival, they meet Susan, a young, naive singer (Vivian Blaine), whose mother has been swindled by grifters. Suddenly chivalrous, the three orchestrate a sting operation using disguises - with Laurel dresses as Susan's dishevelled aunt and Hardy as a rich Texan - to get the woman's money back. Although things don't go as planned, the inimitable comedy duo provide nonstop laughs from start to finish in this delightful caper.
Great Guns
In Great Guns, the comic team play a chauffer, and a gardner whose hyprochondriac employer (Dick Nelson), a wealthy young man with little experience, is drafted. Convinced that he needs them to survive in the service, they join up as well. Of course, the Texas cavalry post to which they're all assigned is made far worse for the wear by the prescence of these well-meaning troublemakers, and there is never a dull moment in this classic featuring two of the cinema's most revered comic actors!
