Marchands de poisson

Titre original : Towed in a Hole

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Oliver Hardy and Stan Laurel in Marchands de poisson (1932)

Slapstick Comedy Family Short

Bien qu'ils soient des poissonniers prospères, Stan convainc Ollie qu'ils devraient aussi devenir pêcheurs, mais il n'est pas facile de mettre un bateau en état de naviguer..Bien qu'ils soient des poissonniers prospères, Stan convainc Ollie qu'ils devraient aussi devenir pêcheurs, mais il n'est pas facile de mettre un bateau en état de naviguer..Bien qu'ils soient des poissonniers prospères, Stan convainc Ollie qu'ils devraient aussi devenir pêcheurs, mais il n'est pas facile de mettre un bateau en état de naviguer..

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Anecdotes
The film that became "Towed in a Hole" was scheduled to start shooting on October 17, 1932, but was postponed for two weeks whilst Stan Laurel and his gag writers struggled to come up with a workable story. Director George Marshall described how he found the way out of this impasse: "I drove to the studio one morning, and in Culver City I passed one of these little fish wagons; and this fellow was touting his wares with a long horn as he drove down the street. So I thought, 'Well, maybe that could be the answer, with the boys selling the fish, but to make more money, catching their own fish.' I had about that much when I came to the studio. Stan was sitting in his room. I told him about the idea and he said, 'Yeah, that just might work.'. The script developed from there. Filming began on November 1 and lasted ten days. The result is considered one of Laurel & Hardy's finest short comedies.

Gaffes
When Stan is sawing the mast, the sawing sound is slower from inside the boat than the fast sawing sound from the outside shot of Ollie up painting the mast.

Citations
Stanley: [Seeing Ollie covered with paint] What did you put that stuff on your face for?

Versions alternatives
Also available in computer colorized version

Connexions
Featured in The Crazy World of Laurel and Hardy (1966)

Bandes originales
Fish for Sale
(uncredited)
Composer unknown
Sung by Oliver Hardy

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7/10

From Retail Fish To Wholesale Fish, so they think

Towed In A Hole finds Laurel and Hardy seeking to expand their business horizons. When we first meet them they are selling retail fish from the back of their truck, fish caught by other people. Of course Stan gets the idea that they should get a boat and start catching their own fish to sell and become wholesalers. But what do these guys know from boats or fishing.

They buy a used boat that's a fix-it-up from Billy Gilbert who saw them coming a mile away. Then the rest of the film is spent in their futile attempts to repair this beached craft. After that it's the usual antics.

Best scene for me was Stan getting his head caught between the inside wall of the boat and the mast. What to do but saw the mast to get his head out. Good thing he had around a saw that he had been trying to make music on a few minutes earlier.

Problem was that while Stan was below Ollie was on top of the mast doing some repair there. When Stan finishes solving his problem the results are disaster for Ollie.

Directing these shenanigans for Hal Roach is George Marshall who would in a few years start turning out a whole series of some great comedy films.

Towed In A Hole also gives us some idea of Ollie's singing voice which was quite good. He doesn't sing, but right at the beginning he's hawking those fish in good voice in which he occasionally slips into the southern speech of his native Georgia.

Nice short subject for Stan and Ollie's legion of fans world wide.