Les As d'Oxford

Titre original : A Chump at Oxford

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Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueAs a reward for capturing a bank robber, Stan and Ollie get scholarships to Oxford, but are met with resentment by other students.As a reward for capturing a bank robber, Stan and Ollie get scholarships to Oxford, but are met with resentment by other students.As a reward for capturing a bank robber, Stan and Ollie get scholarships to Oxford, but are met with resentment by other students.

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Student Hector
(as Charles Hall)

Peter Cushing

Student Jones

Evelyn Barlow

Minor Role
(non crédité)

Louise Bates

Minor Role
(non crédité)

Harry Bernard

Policeman Shot by Vandervere
(non crédité)

Stanley Blystone

Policeman
(non crédité)

Tom Costello

Minor Role
(non crédité)

Richard Cramer

Minor Role
(non crédité)

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Anecdotes
For the ear wiggling that Stan does, he would be filmed with his ears as normal then they'd be held forward with putty or similar material and the camera restarted. The two sections would be joined together then copied and joined many times for repetition. Filmed in slow motion then projected at normal speed the ears would wave vigorously. This would be why Stan's face is fixed in one position for a relatively long time.

Gaffes
When Stan and Ollie get out of a car and thank the driver for the lift, they are in front of the entrance for The Evening Globe, which has Art Deco trim around the main doors. They then ask the driver of a Water Dept. truck for a ride. When they sit on the back of the truck as the driver turns on the street-cleaning spray, the background has changed, and they are now in front of the Globe Pipe Shop, which is next to a grand building entrance with large, Ionic columns on either side of the doors.

Citations
Baldy Vandevere: [to Stan in drag] Agnus, will you please serve the salad - without any dressing.
Stan: [walks over to Ollie] What kind of a joint is this?
Ollie: What's the matter?
Stan: He wants me to serve the salad undressed.
Ollie: Well, if he wants the salad undressed, that's the way he'll have it. Go get the salad.

Versions alternatives
Shortenedand reedited as "Alter Ego" for TV consumption in the 59m

Connexions
Edited into Dance of the Cookoos (1982)

Bandes originales
For He's a Jolly Good Fellow
(uncredited)
Traditional
Sung a cappella by Oxford students

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9/10

Stan & Ollie at their best. Hilarious.

What a lovely gentle comedy. Laurel & Hardy are down on their luck after spectacularly failing as domestic servants (with Stan in drag as a maid) and find themselves literally "in the gutter" working as road-sweepers. They accidentally foil a bank robbery and the grateful bank manager rewards them with the one thing they most dream of, "the best education money can buy". And so off they go to Oxford University, England where the students play a series of practical jokes on them until it's discovered Stan is really Lord Paddington, a brilliant academic who lost his memory several years earlier and vanished. Some of Laurel and Hardy's full-length movies lack the brilliance of their "shorts" but this is spot on throughout. Trust me, you won't stop laughing. Hard to believe this film is now 65 years old, but it still shines. The "Oxford" scenes were shot in Hollywood as we British were rather pre-occupied in 1940 and it's kind of poignant to reflect on the terrible evil that was loose in the world while this lovely film was being created. This movie is a wonderful anglo-American co-operation just like the military alliance which, thankfully, meant that comedy could continue. I recently heard Laurel and hardy described as two very gentle gentlemen, and that sums up my feelings. God bless them both, and long may their legacy continue to bring laughter. Look out for a very young Peter Cushing as one of the spiteful students.