You're Darn Tootin'
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| You're Darn Tootin' | |
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 Theatrical poster for You're Darn Tootin' (1928) |
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| Directed by | Edgar Kennedy |
| Produced by | Hal Roach |
| Written by | H.M. Walker (titles) |
| Starring | Stan Laurel Oliver Hardy Wilson Benge Chet Brandenburg Christian J. Frank Dick Gilbert Charlie Hall William Irving Ham Kinsey Otto Lederer Sam Lufkin George Rowe Frank Saputo Rolfe Sedan Agnes Steele |
| Cinematography | Floyd Jackman |
| Editing by | Richard C. Currier |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Release date(s) | April 21, 1928 |
| Running time | 20 min. |
| Language | Silent; English (Original titles) |
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You're Darn Tootin' is a 1928 silent Laurel & Hardy short subject, produced by Hal Roach and released in 1928 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
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In the short, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy play band musicians who lose their band jobs and home and become street musicians.
The movie is notable for the final sequence, where Laurel and Hardy's private argument of shin-kicking and pants-ripping eventually involves the whole neighborhood. In the end all persons involved (in front of the ABC Restaurant), are without pants and kicking each others leg.
The phrase "You're darn tootin'," when spoken, is meant to establish a similar belief to what the other party says (as in "You're darn right.")
The film was shown on the BBC Four programme Paul Merton's Silent Clowns in full with an original,specially composed musical score.
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The short was directed by fellow film comedian Edgar Kennedy, here billed as "E.Livingston Kennedy". Scenes from this film were featured in several silent film compilations of the 1960s produced by Robert Youngson.
