We Faw Down [We Slip Up] ** (1928, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Vivien Oakland, Bess Flowers) – Classic Movie Review 7370

‘This story is based on the assumption that, somewhere in the world, there are husbands who do not tell their wives everything.’ Ah, ha!

Director Leo McCarey’s 1928 We Faw Down [We Slip Up] is a minor Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy silent comedy, with synchronised music and sound effects.

Stan and Ollie (playing themselves as usual) pretend that they are going to the Orpheum Theatre but go instead off to play poker. When their wives (Bess Flowers as Mrs. Laurel, Vivien Oakland as Mrs. Hardy) hear that the theatre has burnt down, they arrive to find them and they are furious when they find them with two flirty girls (Kay Deslys, Vera White). And unfortunately too Kay (Deslys) is the girlfriend of a jealous boxer, One-Round Kelly (George Kotsonaros).

Written by H M Walker (titles) and an uncredited Stan Laurel, it is somewhat ploddingly developed but with some good gags and a funny climax, and Laurel and Hardy are on good form.

Also in the cast are Allan Cavan and Dale Fuller.

The idea was reused for Laurel and Hardy’s full-length 1933 classic Sons of the Desert [Fraternally Yours].

© Derek Winnert 2018 Classic Movie Review 7370

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