Air Raid Wardens

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Air Raid Wardens
Theatrical poster for Air Raid Wardens (1943)
Directed by	Edward Sedgwick
Produced by	B.F. Zeidman
Written by	Martin Rackin Harry Crane Jack Jevne Charley Rogers
Starring	Stan Laurel Oliver Hardy Edgar Kennedy Jacqueline White Stephen McNally Nella Walker Donald Meek Henry O'Neill Howard Freeman Paul Stanton Robert Emmett O'Connor
Music by	Nathaniel Shilkret
Cinematography	Walter Lundin
Editing by	Irvine Warburton
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date(s)	April 30, 1943
Running time	67 min.
Language	English
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Air Raid Wardens is a 1943 Laurel and Hardy comedy film. This was the first of their films made at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

[edit] Synopsis

Set during World War II, Stan and Ollie try their hand at various business ventures. Their store opens and closes in various guises but without success.They finally open it as a bicycle store but some German spies trick then into partnering the business so that they can use it as a front for a base. Stan and Ollie volunteer as air raid wardens but keep messing up until they are fired. They soon discover that the spies are planning to blow up the local magnesium plant and in the end are heroes as they scupper the plan.