En dessous de zéro

Original title: Below Zero

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Oliver Hardy and Stan Laurel in En dessous de zéro (1930)

In winter-time, the boys fail to earn any money by playing their musical instruments in a bad neighborhood but their luck seems to improve when they find a wallet full of money on the street... Read allIn winter-time, the boys fail to earn any money by playing their musical instruments in a bad neighborhood but their luck seems to improve when they find a wallet full of money on the street.In winter-time, the boys fail to earn any money by playing their musical instruments in a bad neighborhood but their luck seems to improve when they find a wallet full of money on the street.

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Stan Laurel

Stan

Oliver Hardy

Ollie

Bobby Burns

'Blind' Man
(uncredited)
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Baldwin Cooke

Man at Window
(uncredited)

Kay Deslys

Woman at Window
(uncredited)

Charlie Hall

Annoyed Shopkeeper Throwing Snowball
(uncredited)

Jack Hill

Busboy
(uncredited)

Frank Holliday

Policeman
(uncredited)

Charles McMurphy

Diner in Restaurant
(uncredited)

Bob O'Connor

Diner in Restaurant
(uncredited)

Robert Page

Bartender
(uncredited)

Retta Palmer

Woman Leaving Window
(uncredited)

Blanche Payson

Formidable Woman
(uncredited)

Tiny Sandford

Pete
(uncredited)

Charles Sullivan

Diner in Restaurant
(uncredited)

Lyle Tayo

Woman at Window Tossing the Boys a Dollar
(uncredited)

Leo Willis

Crook
(uncredited)

Director
- James Parrott
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Trivia
This film was simultaneously produced and filmed in a Spanish language version entitled "Tiembla y Titubea (1930)," in which the original actors spoke their own lines. Laurel and Hardy read their lines from cue cards on which Spanish was written phonetically. At the time of early talkies, dubbing was not yet perfected.

Goofs
After Stan's throws Blanche Payson's pail into the road, Ollie is laughing and is covered in snow, but when Blanche smashes his bass fiddle on his head, he hardly has any snow on him.

Quotes
Ollie: Oh, garçon?
Pete: Yes, sir?
Ollie: Bring me a parfait.
Pete: Yes, sir.
Stan: Put one on my steak, too.
Ollie: You don't put parfaits on steaks. Just cancel the parfaits.
Pete: Yes, sir.
Ollie: But, bring me a small demitasse.
Pete: Yes, sir!
Stan: Oh, Gaston.
Pete: Yes, sir.
Stan: Bring me one too, in a big cup.
Ollie: A big cup. Where were you brung up?

Crazy credits
Opening credits prologue: The freezing winter of '29 will long be remembered-

-Mr. Hardy's nose was so blue, Mr. Laurel shot it for a jay-bird-

Alternate versions
A colorized version exists.

Connections
Alternate-language version of Tiembla y Titubea (1930)

Soundtracks
In the Good Old Summertime
(1902) (uncredited)
Music by George Evans
Lyrics by Ren Shields
Sung by Oliver Hardy and Stan Laurel, with Hardy on bass violin and Laurel on piano

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Grim reality

Although the subject of this short is particularly grim, I find myself constantly drawn to it. It has a certain minimalist attraction...very little dialogue and no underscoring(probably because of it being a relatively early sound subject and also so as not interfere with the boy's own music-making), and bleak and austere snow-driven sets. Stan and Ollie truly become victims of their dire circumstances and it is only the bizarre physical distortion at the end(Laurel was quite fond of such endings) that takes us out of our reality and back into theirs.