The Fixer Uppers

The Fixer Uppers

Infobox Film
name = The Fixer Uppers


caption =
director = Charley Rogers
producer = Hal Roach
writer = Stan Laurel
Frank Tashlin
released = February 9, 1935
runtime = 19 min.
language = English
budget =
preceded_by = "Tit for Tat"
followed_by = "Thicker than Water"
imdb_id =

"The Fixer Uppers" is a 1935 short film starring Laurel and Hardy, directed by Charles Rogers and produced by Hal Roach.

Plot

Christmas card salesman Stan and Ollie are persuaded to help a woman (Mae Busch) spice up her loveless marriage by making her husband jealous. The spouse involved, a temperamental artist, is however made rather too jealous for comfort, and puts Ollie in peril when he challenges him to a duel to the death at midnight and pledges to track him "to the end of the world" if he doesn't show up.

Stan and Ollie discuss the challenge in a nearby bar and it occurs to them that the husband can't know where they live, so Ollie complacently telephones him to inform him he won't be there and they both insult him. They then get drunk with a neighbour of the couple, the police are called and finding the artist's business card with his home address in Ollie's pocket they take them to the couples apartment and dump them on their bed to sleep it off. They are discovered when Stan starts snoring and pistols are produced but the wife tells Ollie she has replaced the bullets with blanks. The husband shoots at Ollie, who plays dead and the pair then run for their lives and manage to give him the slip. The film ends with Ollie sighing to camera in the back of a garbage truck with cabbage leaves on him, having hidden in a trash can.

Production

* The penultimate Laurel and Hardy short comedy made at Hal Roach Studios, this is a reworking of a very early silent comedy the comedians appeared in (pre-teaming), "Slipping Wives", made in 1927.

Cast

* Stan Laurel
* Oliver Hardy
* Mae Busch
* Charles Middleton
* Arthur Housman
* Noah Young

External links

*imdb title|id=0026362|title=The Fixer Uppers


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