Charley Chase on location for Edgar Kennedy’s ALL TEED UP (1930) with co-star Thelma Todd and the women who played her role in the Spanish and French versions of the short, Linda Loredo and Georgette Rhodes (Leonard Maltin)
Lucien Littlefield as Dr. Horace Meddick, the veterinarian
Stan and Ollie want to go to the national convention of the Sons of the Desert fraternal lodge in Chicago. Unfortunately Mrs Laurel and Mrs Hardy want to go to the mountains.
For me, this is Laurel and Hardy at their very best. The storline, though basic, is a much imitated classic. The gags come thick and fast. The slapstick is perfectly executed, and every performer plays their part to perfection. As always with Laurel and Hardy, it's the lovely slow little bits and pieces around the chaotic gags that make it so very good.
A particular stand-out scene is Ollie faking his "nervous shakedown" and Stan providing chaos and a vet to help out.
Charley Chase makes the most of his cameo appearance as a rather annoying felow Son of the Desert.
Special mention should also go to Ty Parvis and Charita Alden of Honolulu Baby fame.
Director William A. Seiter had already been directing films for almost 20 years when Sons of the Desert came out and he's competent and unflashy.
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