Night Owls (1930 film)

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Night Owls

Directed by	James Parrott
Produced by	Hal Roach
Written by	H.M. Walker
Starring	Stan Laurel Oliver Hardy Edgar Kennedy James Finlayson
Music by	Marvin Hatley
Cinematography	George Stevens
Editing by	Richard C. Currier
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release dates	January 4, 1930 (1930-01-04)
Running time	20' 44" (English) 36' 06" (Spanish)
Country	United States
Language	English

Night Owls (1930) is a Laurel and Hardy short film. It was filmed in October and November 1929, and released January 4, 1930. The film was also made in two foreign-language versions: Ladrones in Spanish and Ladroni in Italian. The foreign versions retained not only the headliners, but Edgar Kennedy and James Finlayson as well.

Plot

Police officer Edgar Kennedy is warned by his Police chief to make arrests to stop a burglary epidemic on his patch or face the sack. Kennedy comes across vagrants Laurel and Hardy that night and persuades them to rob the chief's house to get in his boss's good books. The boys, believing it to be too dangerous, at first refuse. After Kennedy threatens them with ninety days in "the rockpile," and assures them he will get them released after they're caught, they agree to the ruse. Stan and Ollie encounter various problems but after various complications, the chief catches Kennedy with various valuables in his house, while the boys manage somehow to escape.

International versions

The film was also released in an alternate Spanish version, Ladrones, expanded to nearly four reels in length instead of the English two reels, and in an Italian version I ladroni, now lost. English and Spanish versions are now available on DVD.

Notes

In the Film Classics reissue print, the original opening title music was replaced by a portion of the instrumental version of Marvin Hatley's "Honolulu Baby" from the Sons of the Desert soundtrack.

Cast

Production

This was the first film to use their celebrated theme tune, "The 'Ku-Ku' Song", written by Marvin Hatley.

References

External links

Night Owls at the Internet Movie Database
Night Owls at Rotten Tomatoes

v t e Laurel and Hardy

Stan Laurel Oliver Hardy

Articles	Stan Laurel filmography Oliver Hardy filmography Combined filmography Laurel and Hardy (animated series) Music The Sons of the Desert

Collaborators	James Finlayson Charlie Hall Marvin Hatley James W. Horne Leo McCarey James Parrott Hal Roach Leroy Shield H. M. Walker

v t e Laurel and Hardy filmography

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