Berth Marks

Berth Marks
Directed by	Lewis R. Foster
Produced by	Hal Roach
Written by	Leo McCarey H.M. Walker
Starring	Stan Laurel Oliver Hardy
Cinematography	Len Powers
Editing by	Richard C. Currier
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date(s)	June 1, 1929
Running time	19:25
Country	United States
Language	silent film English intertitles

Berth Marks is a 1929 short comedy starring Laurel and Hardy.

Plot

Stan and Ollie are musicians, travelling by train to their next gig in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, a very popular vaudeville performance location at the time .They spend most of the trip trying to change into pajamas and get comfortable in a cramped upper berth.

Notes

Berth Marks was the second sound film released by Laurel & Hardy. A silent version was also made for cinemas at the time that were not equipped to show sound pictures.

Cast

• Stan Laurel
• Oliver Hardy
• Harry Bernard
• Baldwin Cooke
• Paulette Goddard
• Charlie Hall
• Pat Harmon
• S.D. Wilcox
• Sammy Brooks

Plot

Laurel and Hardy take a train to Pottsville.

Production

Action and dialogue scripts were written mid-April 1929, with filming April 20-27, 1929, and release by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on June 1, 1929.

Remakes

The train scenes, including outtakes unused in Berth Marks, were spliced into foreign-language versions of The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case the following year. These scenes were combined with new footage, utilizing actors fluent in the languages appropriate to the foreign-language versions. Laurel and Hardy's scenes from Berth Marks were overdubbed to match the required languages.

Berth Marks was reissued in 1936 with new musical scoring added to introductory scenes.

External links

• Berth Marks at the Internet Movie Database
• Berth Marks at AllRovi
• Berth Marks at Rotten Tomatoes