Sailors, Beware!
Appearance
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Directed by | Fred Guiol Hal Yates |
Written by | Hal Roach H.M. Walker (titles) |
Produced by | Hal Roach |
Starring | Stan Laurel Oliver Hardy |
Distributed by | Pathé Exchange |
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Running time | 19' 51" |
Country | United States |
Languages | Silent film English intertitles |
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Sailors, Beware! is a silent comedy short film starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy prior to their official billing as the duo Laurel and Hardy. The team appeared in a total of 107 films between 1921 and 1951.
Plot
An honest cab driver (Laurel) picks up a woman (Anita Garvin) and her "baby", who is actually a midget in disguise. He does not realize his passengers are crooks. When they get out of the cab without paying and leave the meter running, Stan follows them aboard a ship, where he exposes the crooks.[1]
Cast
- Stan Laurel as Chester Chaste, cabdriver
- Oliver Hardy as Purser Cryder
- Anita Garvin as Madame Ritz
- Ed Brandenburg as Other cabdriver
- Frank Brownlee as Captain Bull
- Dorothy Coburn as Lady in easy chair
- Harry Earles as Roger/The baby
- Connie Evans as Society lady
- Barbara Pierce as Society lady
- Viola Richard as Society lady
- Tiny Sandford as Man in robe
- Will Stanton as Baron Behr
- May Wallace as Society lady
- Charley Young as Man boarding boat
- Lupe Vélez as Baroness Behr (uncredited)
References
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-09-20. Retrieved 2012-08-13.
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