Quand les poules rentrent au bercail

Original title: Chickens Come Home

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Oliver Hardy and Stan Laurel in Quand les poules rentrent au bercail (1931)

Mr. Hardy is running for mayor but an old flame of ill repute shows up to blackmail him with an old naughty photograph.Mr. Hardy is running for mayor but an old flame of ill repute shows up to blackmail him with an old naughty photograph.Mr. Hardy is running for mayor but an old flame of ill repute shows up to blackmail him with an old naughty photograph.

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Stan Laurel

Mr. Laurel

Oliver Hardy

Mr. Oliver Hardy

Mae Busch

Ollie's Old Flame
(uncredited)

Baldwin Cooke

Office Worker
(uncredited)

Gordon Douglas

Passerby Outside Apartment
(uncredited)

Norma Drew

Mrs. Laurel
(uncredited)

James Finlayson

Butler
(uncredited)

Elizabeth Forrester

Passerby Outside Apartment
(uncredited)

Charles K. French

Judge
(uncredited)

Clara Guiol

Secretary
(uncredited)

Frank Holliday

Mr. Holliday
(uncredited)

Ham Kinsey

Mr. Kinsey
(uncredited)
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Dorothy Layton

Office Worker
(uncredited)

Venice Lloyd

Office Worker
(uncredited)

Bob Minford

Doorman
(uncredited)

Patsy O'Byrne

Busybody
(uncredited)

Gertrude Pedlar

Judge's Wife
(uncredited)

Frank Rice

Hardy's Dinner Servant
(uncredited)

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Trivia
'Chickens Come Home' is a "three-reel' sound remake of the two-reel silent, 'Love 'Em And Weep' from 1927, which was also made at the Hal Roach Studios. Oliver Hardy (who had a bit part as a judge in the silent) plays the featured part, which was originally played by James Finlayson in the silent version. Finlayson is relegated to the small part of the butler in the sound version. Stan Laurel and Mae Busch play the same parts in both films.

Goofs
(At around 3 mins) The camera is on the notepad and the pencil that Laurel is holding breaks. We can see that Laurel only squiggled on the notepad rather than writing the words Hardy had told him to write. Those "squiggles" are in fact Shorthand, an abbreviated symbolic writing method that increases speed and brevity of writing as compared to a more common method of writing a language. Shorthand was used more widely in the past, before the invention of recording and dictation machines.

Quotes
Stanley: Do you mind if I smoke?
Ollie's blackmailer: I don't care if you burn up!

Alternate versions
The version of this film available on DVD is a mediocre Film Classics reissue print in which the original MGM credits have been replaced and the title of the film is absent. The computer-colorized version features the original credits minus the MGM lion. The Spanish language version, "Politiquerías", features the full MGM credits and the lion as well.

Connections
Alternate-language version of Politiquerías (1931)

Soundtracks
Somebody's Coming to My House
(1913) (uncredited)
Written by Irving Berlin
Performed by Oliver Hardy

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9/10

Great movie

This is an absolutely hilarious sketch, that ranks with Men-O-War, Another Fine Mess, Perfect Day, and Twice Two as one of the funniest shorts the duo ever did. The show starts with Oliver--a successful fertilizer magnate (with dim witted Stan in tow) who's running for mayor. When an ex-girlfriend blackmails him, picture and all it's up to Stan to save Ollie's campaign, job, and marriage. The funniest part is when Stan and Ollie are carrying the blackmailer at the end Complete with furniture fight, car destruction, and other typical antics this is a great movie. The supporting cast is also great, complete with James Finlyson as the usual butt of jokes. An excellent move that has a 100 smiles in it.