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Two bumbling dance teachers help an awkward inventor sell his new invention and facilitate his romance with a beautiful socialite.Two bumbling dance teachers help an awkward inventor sell his new invention and facilitate his romance with a beautiful socialite.Two bumbling dance teachers help an awkward inventor sell his new invention and facilitate his romance with a beautiful socialite.
Louis Bacigalupi
- Dental Patient
- (uncredited)
Brooks Benedict
- Sidewalk Barker
- (uncredited)
Ruth Brady
- Secretary
- (uncredited)
Chet Brandenburg
- Bus Passenger
- (uncredited)
Chick Collins
- Bus Driver
- (uncredited)
Betty Danko
- Bus driver
- (uncredited)
Jimmie Dundee
- Cop Who Slips on Banana Peel
- (uncredited)
Edward Earle
- Clerk at Airport
- (uncredited)
William Haade
- Truck Driver
- (uncredited)
Sherry Hall
- Dentist
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaA young Robert Mitchum has an uncredited bit part as a fraudulent insurance salesman.
- GoofsWhen the bricks begin to rhythmically hit Hardy on the head, the sound effect can be heard prior to the bricks making contact.
- Quotes
Trudy Harlan: You boys believe that Grant has a great future as an inventor, don't you?
Oliver Hardy: Well, I believe that Grant'll be an inventor of the first rank.
Stan Laurel: What's rank?
Oliver Hardy: You are! SHUT UP!
- ConnectionsFeatured in Living Famously: Laurel & Hardy (2003)
- SoundtracksLoin de bal (Echoes of the Ball)
(1888) (uncredited)
Written by Ernest Gillet
Played at the dancing school
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Very little dancing,or humour
Another unfortunate chapter in Laurel & Hardy's post-Hal Roach efforts,this is a desultory,poorly-constructed comedy which tries to compensate by reworking much material from the boys' Roach days.Such films as COUNTY HOSPITAL(1932),THICKER THAN WATER(1935) and THE BATTLE OF THE CENTURY(1927) have revamped sequences in this film.THE DANCING MASTERS plot however,makes little sense and the scenes from the above earlier,better films seem to have been lazily added as an afterthought,almost as though screenwriter Scott Darling realises he has no funny ideas.This is probably correct,but sadly the reworkings don't work as they are pointless.Darling's own material is woefully hackneyed.The scenes where Ollie tries to cause an accident on Stan are at least of some interest,as these scenes reworked from THE BATTLE OF THE CENTURY are lost.The supporting cast has some interesting names;Robert Mitchum in one of his earliest film roles;A former Roach Mrs.Hardy,Daphne Pollard,has a bit part;former Keystone Kop and Charlie Chaplin foil Hank Mann,in his only Laurel & Hardy film;and Margaret Dumont,The Marx Brothers perrenial leading lady.But they,like Stan & Ollie,can only do so much out of a banal screenplay.The best moments come from Stan's 'rhetorical strangle' and a locked safe;beyond that,there's little else.
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- BJJ-2
- Jan 11, 2003
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- A Matter of Money
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- Runtime1 hour 3 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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