Bonnie Scotland
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| Bonnie Scotland | |
|---|---|
 Theatrical poster | |
| Directed by | James W. Horne |
| Written by | Frank Butler Jefferson Moffitt Stan Laurel Albert Austin Wilson Collison James W. Horne Charley Rogers |
| Produced by | Stan Laurel Hal Roach |
| Starring | Stan Laurel Oliver Hardy June Lang William Janney Anne Grey Vernon Steele Jimmy Finlayson |
| Cinematography | Art Lloyd Walter Lundin |
| Edited by | Bert Jordan |
| Music by | Marvin Hatley Leroy Shield |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
Release date | August 23, 1935 |
Running time | 80 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Bonnie Scotland is a 1935 American film directed by James W. Horne and starring Laurel and Hardy. It was produced by Hal Roach for Hal Roach Studios. Although the film begins in Scotland, a large part of the action is set in British India.
Plot
After escaping from jail where they had "one more week to serve," Laurel and Hardy travel to Scotland as stowaways on a cattle boat, where Laurel (as "Stanley McLaurel") believes he is heir to his grandfather's fortune. As it turns out, Laurel has only been bequeathed a set of bagpipes and a snuff container. Use of the latter causes Hardy, trying to demonstrate to Laurel the proper way to use snuff, to fly off an old bridge. His clothes are soaked.
In the boarding house, Laurel swaps their overcoats for a large fish for dinner. In quick succession the fish "shrizzles" to about 1/10 its size, Hardy's pants are burnt and ruined, and an attempt to hide the still-hot stove results in the landlady throwing the two out and confiscating their luggage for non-payment of rent. Receiving an ad for a tailor's offer of a new suit, Laurel and Hardy accidentally go to the wrong floor and join a Scottish regiment of the British Army and travel to India, where they frequently run afoul of their Sergeant Major (Jimmy Finlayson), and help their friend Alan (William Janney) reunite with his love (and Laurel's cousin) Lorna McLaurel (June Lang).
Khan Mir Jutra is the local terrorist who is a grave danger to the regiment. Volunteers are sought for a dangerous decoy mission to his palace, while Colonel MacGregor leads a surprise attack from another direction. Finlayson "volunteers" Stan & Ollie, who remain blissfully ignorant of the danger until they are given pistols and ordered to commit suicide. Hardy instead shoots down a huge chandelier, and also leads their pursuers into a courtyard of beehives, which cause panic among the terrorists and their own arriving regiment.
Cast
- Oliver Hardy as Ollie Hardy
- Stan Laurel as Stanley MacLaurel
- June Lang as Lorna MacLaurel
- William Janney as Allan Douglas
- Anne Grey as Lady Violet Ormsby
- Vernon Steele as Colonel Gregor McGregor
- James Finlayson as Sergeant Major Finlayson
- David Torrence as Mr Miggs
- Maurice Black as Khan Mir Jutra
- Daphne Pollard as Millie (the maid)
- Mary Gordon as Mrs. Bickerdike
- Lionel Belmore as The blacksmith (part cut to a cameo in release print)
- Claude King as General Fletcher
- David Clyde as Highlander
References
External links
- Bonnie Scotland at IMDb
- Bonnie Scotland at the TCM Movie Database
- Bonnie Scotland at AllMovie
- Bonnie Scotland at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
- Bonnie Scotland at Rotten Tomatoes
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- 1935 films
- 1935 comedy films
- American black-and-white films
- Films directed by James W. Horne
- Films set in India
- Films set in Scotland
- Films set in the British Raj
- Laurel and Hardy (film series)
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films
- Films with screenplays by Charley Rogers
- 1930s English-language films
- 1930s American films
- 1930s comedy film stubs