| Air Raid Wardens | |
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Theatrical poster for Air Raid Wardens (1943) |
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| 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 |
Air Raid Wardens is a 1943 Laurel and Hardy comedy film. This was the first of their films made at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
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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 them 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.
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