Bonnie Scotland

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	Hal Roach Studios
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date	August 23, 1935 (1935-08-23)
Running time	80' 20"
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 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).

Cast

• Oliver Hardy – Ollie Hardy
• Stan Laurel – Stanley MacLaurel
• June Lang – Lorna MacLaurel
• William Janney – Allan Douglas
• Anne Grey – Lady Violet Ormsby
• Vernon Steele – Colonel Gregor McGregor
• James Finlayson – Sergeant Major Finlayson
• David Torrence – Mr Miggs
• Maurice Black – Khan Mir Jutra
• Daphne Pollard – Millie (the maid)
• Mary Gordon – Mrs. Bickerdike
• Lionel Belmore – The blacksmith (part cut to a cameo in release print)
• David Clyde – Highlander

External links

• Bonnie Scotland at IMDb
• Bonnie Scotland at the TCM Movie Database
• Bonnie Scotland at Rotten Tomatoes