Les deux policiers

Original title: The Midnight Patrol

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Laurel and Hardy patrol the streets as the city's newest cops. This can't possibly end well--except for the criminals who can now safely commit crime.Laurel and Hardy patrol the streets as the city's newest cops. This can't possibly end well--except for the criminals who can now safely commit crime.Laurel and Hardy patrol the streets as the city's newest cops. This can't possibly end well--except for the criminals who can now safely commit crime.

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7.0/10

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Stan Laurel

Officer Stanley Laurel

Oliver Hardy

Officer Oliver Hardy

Harry Bernard

Jail Visitor
(uncredited)

Billy Bletcher

Radio Dispatcher
(voice)
(uncredited)

Frank Brownlee

Police Chief Ramsbottom
(uncredited)

Al Corporal

Butler
(uncredited)

Edgar Dearing

Policeman
(uncredited)

Eddie Dunn

Police Sergeant
(uncredited)

Charlie Hall

Tire Thief's Partner
(uncredited)

Bob Kortman

Tire Thief
(uncredited)

James C. Morton

Policeman
(uncredited)

Tiny Sandford

Policeman
(uncredited)

Frank Terry

Safecracker
(uncredited)

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Featured review

5/10

"Calling Car Thirteen!"

While hardly the best of their films - frequently seeming to have been dashed off in about five minutes - it does however begin with a dramatic title sequence combining windscreen wipers and a police siren and provides the novelty of seeing Laurel & Hardy as members of the establishment - looking very dapper in policemen's uniforms with wing collars - playing a pair of cops so dumb their tyres are stolen while they're parked and are unable to spot misdemeanours being committed right under their noses by a hood in bowler hat and striped jersey; while their attempts to gain entry into a house where a burglary has been reported are more harrowing than funny. And would the Chief of Police really have (SPOILER COMING:) meted out such rough justice at the film's conclusion?

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Trivia
The title sequence of this short is filmed to look like a police car racing West at night on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, with siren blaring, and a windshield wiper 'erasing' each set of credits and 'sweeping in' the next. Along the route, mostly on the left (South) side of Wilshire, we see a Cut Rate drug store; a billboard (or perhaps a building logo) for Mullen & Bluett clothiers; a billboard ad for R&H Pilsner Beer. An apparent 'jump cut' puts us a few blocks farther West on Wilshire, where, again on the left, we see a movie theatre marquee (probably the Fox Ritz at 5214 Wilshire); a large, billboard-sized Coca-Cola sign in lights on the right; and in the distance, on the left, a rooftop lighted sign on the Myer Siegel building at 5410 Wilshire.

Goofs
Stan and Ollie argue about their last day off, but at the end of the film they claim it's their first day on the job.

Quotes
Car Dispatcher: Calling Car Thirteen.
Oliver: That's us.
Car Dispatcher: Calling Car One-Three.
Stanley: I thought he said Thirteen.
Oliver: Shut up.
Car Dispatcher: Look out, boys, somebody's stealing your spare tire. That is all.