While changing clothes in a getaway car, escaped convicts Stan and Ollie mistakenly put on each other's pants. They spend the rest of the film trying to exchange pants in various unlikely settings.
Acting
Laurel and Hardy's physical comedy synchronicity is telepathic.
Practical Effects
Every stunt and pratfall—zero fakery, all danger.
Cinematography
Construction site vertigo shots still induce sweaty palms.
Director
Leo McCarey
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Jean Harlow appears uncredited as 'Harlean Carpenter'—her real name—months before her star-making Hughes contract. This is cinematic Big Bang residue.
Leo McCarey allegedly let the camera run during the skyscraper sequence because the genuine terror on Laurel and Hardy's faces was funnier than any scripted reaction. The height was real.
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