Unaccustomed As We Are

Unaccustomed As We Are

Infobox Film
name = Unaccustomed As We Are


caption = Theatrical poster for "Unaccustomed As We Are" (1929)
director = Lewis R. Foster
Hal Roach
producer = Hal Roach
writer = Leo McCarey (story)
H.M. Walker
starring = Stan Laurel
Oliver Hardy
Edgar Kennedy
Mae Busch
Thelma Todd
music =
cinematography = John MacBurnie
Len Powers
Jack Roach
George Stevens
editing = Richard C. Currier
distributor = Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
released = May 4, 1929
runtime = 18 min. (silent version)
20:44 (sound version)
language = Silent film
English intertitles
country = USA
preceded_by = "Big Business"
followed_by = "Double Whoopee"
imdb_id = 0020531
amg_id = 1:137518

"Unaccustomed As We Are" is a 1929 comedy short film starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, also featuring Mae Busch (in the first of several appearances as "Mrs. Hardy"), Edgar Kennedy, and Thelma Todd. It is notable for being Laurel and Hardy's first sound film (hence the title, drawn from the popular cliché "Unaccustomed as we are to public speaking ..."). The soundtrack was lost for fifty years until it was traced on disc in the late 1970s.

In the opening scene, Laurel and Hardy speak their very first lines in film. Hardy's first line is "And we'll have a nice thick steak, smothered with onions..." Stan's first line is "Any nuts?" Stan's fondness for nuts came up in subsequent films, including "County Hospital" (1932) and "Oliver the Eighth" (1934).

This is the first film in which Hardy says to Laurel, "Why don't you do something to help me!" which immediately became a catch-phrase, repeated in numerous subsequent films. Also heard for the first time is Stan's distinctive, high-pitched whimper of distress.

The plot of "Unaccustomed As We Are" was expanded into a full-length feature, "Block-Heads", in 1938.

See also

* 1929 in film
* Laurel and Hardy films

External links

*imdb title|id=0020531|title=Unaccustomed As We Are


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