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      Duck Soup

      Released Mar 13, 1927 20m Comedy List
      Reviews 47% Audience Score 50+ Ratings Oliver and Stanley hide from forest rangers in a big game hunter's house. Read More Read Less

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      Audience Member same title as the marx brothers' 1933 pix but thats where it ends Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member Hilarious little two-reeler from the very early days of Laurel and Hardy, before their film personas were solidified. This was thought to be lost, but was found in the early 70's. It was remade by Laurel and Hardy as a talkie called "Another Fine Mess." The title for this one, "Duck Soup" was later used by Leo McCarey (a big Laurel and Hardy fan) for a feature film of the same name that you probably all know. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review simon d Nothing unexpected but still typical L&H, an early silent one. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Mike M It's 1927, and Hal Roach is still in the process of testing out to see what kind of comedians his popular pairing of Laurel and Hardy were going to be. At the start of this silent short, we catch a high-speed glimpse of a road not taken: some pretty exciting action-comedy - with the pair on the lam on a purloined bicycle - that's very nearly on a par with Keaton or Lloyd for comic thrills. This diversion negotiated, the stars revert to a persona that would be locked the minute the Depression hit: they're vagabonds, hiding out in a posh mansion house in what's patently a primitive (and now rather tatty-looking) first draft of what would become "Another Fine Mess", albeit with an alternative, somewhat thrown-together ending. The stars' destiny would lie elsewhere: becoming the Marx Brothers in bowler hats, accidental anarchists in respectable clothing. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 08/04/11 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis Oliver and Stanley hide from forest rangers in a big game hunter's house.
      Director
      Fred Guiol
      Distributor
      Pathé Exchange Inc.
      Production Co
      Hal Roach Studios Inc.
      Genre
      Comedy
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Mar 13, 1927, Original
      Runtime
      20m