Air Raid Wardens

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Oliver Hardy and Stan Laurel in Air Raid Wardens (1943)

Two bumblers, failures as businessmen and air raid wardens, stumble across a nest of Nazi saboteurs bent on blowing up the local magnesium plant.Two bumblers, failures as businessmen and air raid wardens, stumble across a nest of Nazi saboteurs bent on blowing up the local magnesium plant.Two bumblers, failures as businessmen and air raid wardens, stumble across a nest of Nazi saboteurs bent on blowing up the local magnesium plant.

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Stan Laurel

Stanley

Oliver Hardy

Oliver Hardy

Edgar Kennedy

Joe Bledsoe

Jacqueline White

Peggy Parker

Stephen McNally

Dan Madison
(as Horace McNally)

Nella Walker

Millicent Norton

Donald Meek

Eustace Middling

Henry O'Neill

Rittenhause

Howard Freeman

J.P. Norton

Paul Stanton

Captain Biddle

Robert Emmett O'Connor

Charlie Beaugart
(as Robert Emmet O'Connor)

William Tannen

Joseph

Russell Hicks

Major Scanlon

Philip Van Zandt

Herman
(as Phil Van Zandt)

Frederick Worlock

Otto
(as Frederic Worlock)

Don Costello

Heydrich

Sam Ash

Air Raid Warden
(uncredited)

King Baggot

Townsman at Meeting
(uncredited)

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Trivia
Supposedly, Civil Defense representatives were present as advisors during the filming to ensure none of the gags in the movie would cast a negative light on the efficiency of their organization.

Goofs
The car they were driving as they drove off the road and hit a tree toward the end of the film had no tires or steel bands on the wooden spoke wheels of the car. It would have been very difficult to actually drive a car in that configuration.

Quotes
Oliver: [inside the open car trunk] This is a job for the detectives.
Stanley: Maybe we should turn 'em over to the FHA.
Oliver: Yeah. Shhh!
[they get out of the car trunk]
Stanley: This must be the hide-in.
Oliver: Hide-out! Come on.

Connections
Edited into Myra Breckinridge (1970)

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5/10

Air Raid Wardens (1943) **

I tend to repeat this in all my reviews of the final eight 1940s films featuring the legendary comedy team of Laurel and Hardy, but the six pictures they made for 20th Century-Fox were generally underrated; the real sour lemons of all the latter-day Stan and Ollie movies from their twilight years were actually the two which were made by MGM --- the insufferable NOTHING BUT TROUBLE (1944), and then this one - AIR RAID WARDENS (1943). Here, Laurel and Hardy want desperately to aid the U.S.A. by contributing to the war effort, but nobody will have them. No matter what they attempt to accomplish, they keep putting their feet in everything and turn up mostly disastrous results. At least Edgar Kennedy is present this time as a good foil for L&H, and there are some funny spots now and then, but you can tell that this picture has more of a wholesome whitewash to it and doesn't really "feel" like a Laurel and Hardy comedy. It's at least average Stan and Ollie, though; and that's more than can be said for the film which was to follow. ** out of ****