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)

User reviews19

Featured review

7/10

Why Does He Have A Barrel Of Sauekrat?

New cops Laurel and Hardy bungle their way into arrest the Chief of Police in his own home.

Of course, that's not the only thing they bungle. They get into an argument with safecracker Frank Terry, with not a clue as to what is going on. That's one of the pleasures of Laurel & Hardy -- I almost wrote 'cartoons; -- shorts: their ability to keep going with no idea of what is going on.

It's not one of the best of the Boys' shorts. Well, they can't all be masterpieces. his one is only very funny.

boblipton
Dec 28, 2020
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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.