Why Girls Love Sailors

Why Girls Love Sailors

Infobox Film
name = Why Girls Love Sailors


caption = Theatrical poster for "Why Girls Love Sailors" (1927)
director = Fred Guiol
producer = Hal Roach
writer = Hal Roach
H.M. Walker (titles)
starring = Stan Laurel
Oliver Hardy
Viola Richard
Anita Garvin
Malcolm Waite
Charles R. Althoff
music =
cinematography =
editing =
distributor = Pathé
released = July 17, 1927
runtime = 20 min.
language = Silent film
English intertitles
country = USA
budget =
preceded_by = "Love 'em and Weep"
followed_by = "With Love and Hisses"
imdb_id = 0018573
amg_id = 1:146250

"Why Girls Love Sailors" is a 1927 comedy short silent film directed by Fred Guiol for Hal Roach Studios starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy before they had become the comedy team of Laurel and Hardy. It was considered a lost film until the 1980s. Deleted scenes from this film included actress Anna May Wong.

Plot

The film starts with the loading of a ship called the Merry Maiden. Oliver is first mate on the ship and described as "a bully, the nastiest crew member, after the captain of course". Stan plays Willie Brisling a guy who is engaged to Nelly and they are in love. The captain leaves his ship, he sees Nelly and decides he wants her. Stan has a tattoo of a ship on his chest and shows it to the captain. The captain pours a jug of water down Stan's sweater and abducts Nelly. The captain takes Nelly to his ship and Stan sneaks on board to rescue her. Oliver starts to look for Stan. Stan decides to save Nelly his last hope is to get rid of the crew, one by one. Stan disguises himself as a loose woman. The crew begin to fall for his charms. Stan calls one of the crewmen over, he hits the crewman with a cosh and knocks him out. Then he throws the cosh at Oliver, who thinks the crewman threw the cosh. Oliver throws the crewman overboard, this is repeated until all of the crew are in the sea.

Nelly is being harassed by the captain. The captain's wife appears at the ship. The Captain takes a fancy to Stan. The wife appears as Stan is sat in the captain's lap. The captain's wife takes a gun and goes to shoot her husband. Stan stops her and takes off his wig. Stan says "this was a test to see if you really love your husband". The captain and wife begin to make up. But then the captain indicates he's going to "deal with Stan later". Stan is peeved, he opens the door and Nelly appears. Stan indicates the captain has been up to no good with Nelly and that four other loose women have already gone. The captain's wife is furious, Stan gives her the gun back. Stan and Nelly leave. There is a gun shot in the room. The wife, still angry, sees Stan and Nelly through a porthole and shoots them. Stan and Nelly's clothes fall off revealing their underwear.

Cast

*Stan Laurel as Willie Brisling
*Oliver Hardy as First mate
*Viola Richard as Willie's Girl
*Anita Garvin as Captain's wife
*Malcolm Waite as Captain
*Charles R. Althoff as Grandpa Brisling
*Edgar Dearing as Amorous Sailor (uncredited)
*Bobby Dunn as Bemused bit (uncredited)

Trivia

* Oliver has a beard and a moustache, rather than his usual solitary moustache.

See also

* 1927 in film
* Laurel and Hardy films

External links

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