Air Raid Wardens

Air Raid Wardens

Infobox Film
name = Air Raid Wardens


image_size = 150px
caption = Theatrical poster for "Air Raid Wardens" (1943)
director = Edward Sedgwick
producer = B.F. Zeidman
writer =Martin Rackin
Harry Crane
Jack Jevne
Charley Rogers
starring = Stan Laurel
Oliver Hardy
Edgar Kennedy
Jacqueline White
Stephen McNally
Nella Walker
Donald Meek
Henry O'Neill
Howard Freeman
Paul Stanton
Robert Emmett O'Connor
music = Nathaniel Shilkret
cinematography = Walter Lundin
editing = Irvine Warburton
distributor = Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
released = April 30, 1943
runtime = 67 min.
language = English
budget =
preceded_by = "A-Haunting We Will Go"
followed_by = "Jitterbugs"
imdb_id = 0035617

"Air Raid Wardens" is a 1943 Laurel and Hardy comedy film. This was the first of their films made at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

ynopsis

Set during World War II, Stan and Ollie try their hand at various business ventures. Their store opens and closes in various guises but without success.They finally open it as a bicycle store but some German spies trick them into partnering the business so that they can use it as a front for a base. Stan and Ollie volunteer as air raid wardens but keep messing up until they are fired. They soon discover that the spies are planning to blow up the local magnesium plant and in the end are heroes as they scupper the plan.

See also

* Laurel and Hardy films

External links

*imdb title|id=0035617|title=Air Raid Wardens
*amg title|id=1:1289|title=Air Raid Wardens
*rotten-tomatoes|id=air_raid_wardens|title=Air Raid Wardens


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