Them Thar Hills

Them Thar Hills
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Directed by	Charley Rogers
Produced by	Hal Roach
Written by	Stan Laurel H.M. Walker
Starring	Stan Laurel Oliver Hardy Mae Busch Charlie Hall Billy Gilbert
Music by	Billy Hill (song "The Old Spinning Wheel") Marvin Hatley Leroy Shield
Cinematography	Art Lloyd
Edited by	Bert Jordan
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date	July 21, 1934 (1934-07-21)
Running time	20 min 28 sec
Country	United States
Language	English

Them Thar Hills (1934) is a short comedy film starring Laurel and Hardy. The film was so well received by audiences that it generated the sequel, Tit for Tat (1935).

Plot

At the advice of a doctor (Billy Gilbert), Stan and Ollie travel to the mountains in order for Ollie to recover from gout. They park their travel trailer near a deserted cabin recently occupied by a gang of moonshiners who had been ousted by Prohibition authorities; the moonshiners, attempting to hide the evidence, had dumped their brew into the well, which Stan and Ollie now proceed to drink from, thinking that it is healthy mountain water ("that odd taste is just the natural iron in the water").

A motorist couple who have run out of petrol arrives and asks for help. While the irritable and overbearing husband (played by familiar nemesis Charlie Hall) walks back to his car with Stan's spare can of petrol, the man's wife (Mae Busch), appreciating the boys' affable and respectful manners as a refreshing relief from her husband's crabby belligerence, willingly joins the boys for supper and ladlefuls of the "mountain water". The husband returns with the car to find that the three are all roaring drunk, and his anger at Stan and Ollie triggers a "tit for tat" sequence at the end (which happens to also be the name of the "sequel" film). It culminates with the wrecking of the camper, Hall being tarred with molasses and feathered, and with a toilet-plunger stuck to his forehead. Ollie then jumps into the well because his trousers are on fire. The alcohol in the water detonates, causing Ollie's explosive ejection, leaving him buried in the ground with his legs flailing in the final scene.

Cast^[1]

References

External links

• Them Thar Hills on IMDb