Dirty Work **** (1933, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Lucien Littlefield, Sam Adams) – Classic Movie Review 8,560

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are on fine, exuberant form as chimney sweeps who experiment with a rejuvenation formula, in the 1933 comedy short film Dirty Work.

Director Lloyd French’s 1933 two-reeler black and white comedy short film Dirty Work stars Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy as chimney sweeps who experiment with mad scientist Professor Noodle (Lucien Littlefield)’s rejuvenation formula. Stan accidentally turns Ollie into a chimpanzee (played by Jiggs the monkey).

Dirty Work is an extra-funny short from the boys with the chimney sweeping sequences (‘You can’t miss the fireplace, it’s standing against the wall’) among their best.

Laurel and Hardy are on fine, exuberant form and, in support, Littlefield is excellent and so is Sam Adams as Jessup the butler.

Dirty Work is directed by Lloyd French, runs 20 minutes, is made by Hal Roach Studios, is released by MGM, is written by H M Walker, is shot in black and white by Kenneth Peach, is produced by Hal Roach and is scored by Marvin Hartley and Le Roy Shield.

Talking chimpanzees. in Laurel and Hardy’s 1932 short film The Chimp. the title character Ethel is not a chimpanzee but a trained gorilla dressed in a ballet tutu and hat – and not even that, she is a man in a gorilla suit. 

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