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Laurel and Hardy, rat trap salesmen who are unable to do business in Switzerland, having no money to pay for lunch end up working for the hotel where a composer, who has run away from his wi... Read allLaurel and Hardy, rat trap salesmen who are unable to do business in Switzerland, having no money to pay for lunch end up working for the hotel where a composer, who has run away from his wife, has taken refuge.Laurel and Hardy, rat trap salesmen who are unable to do business in Switzerland, having no money to pay for lunch end up working for the hotel where a composer, who has run away from his wife, has taken refuge.
Grete Natzler
- Anna Albert
- (as Della Lind)
Charles Gemora
- Gorilla
- (as Charles Gamore)
Jean Alden
- Dancer
- (uncredited)
Ruth Alder
- Dancer
- (uncredited)
Ernie Alexander
- Minor Role
- (uncredited)
Michael Arshasky
- Dancer
- (uncredited)
Marie Barbe
- Townswoman
- (uncredited)
Ann Berry
- Townswoman
- (uncredited)
Storyline
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- TriviaThis film has a famous comedy scene with Laurel and Hardy trying to move a piano across a bridge suspended high above some mountains. Originally, there was to have been a subplot in which a bomb had been secretly attached to some keys in the piano, thus adding suspense to the comedy. Producer Hal Roach deleted the bomb subplot, but retained the now-pointless shots of Laurel accidentally hitting the piano keys.
- GoofsThe lyric of the final song says, "In Swiss that's 'good morning to you.'" There is no language called "Swiss." Swiss citizens speak German, French, Italian or Romansh.
- Alternate versions'Alpine Antics" was a edited version cut from 'Swiss Miss' for TV.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Another Romance of Celluloid (1938)
- SoundtracksKu-Ku
(1928) (uncredited)
Music by Marvin Hatley
Played during the opening credits and also in the score
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This marvellous film neatly sets up a position - that the Swiss Tyrol is the traditional pleasant place of thigh slapping, jolly peasants and picturesque vies. From these images, composer will create his masterpiece. But to get the right mood, the staff at the swank hotel he is staying at must get themselves up in traditional costume - the image is artifice. Into this artificial, romantic world comes the dialectical opposition: Laurel & Hardy, with their arguments and bad luck. Immediately they arrive, the locals are shown to be devious cheats. They are then forced to work as slaves in the hotel to pay off an enormous food bill. All the while the composer is writing his ridiculous score, full of innocent mountain maids and singing crickets. The composer's prima-donna wife arrives and his false vision of innocence is shattered. She wants to play the innocent Swiss miss in his new work but he, rightly, rejects her as too worldly. To get the role, she connives, flirts and manipulates the hotel staff, including L & H. The greatest sequence involves our heroes attempting to get a piano across an Alpine valley rope bridge - the precarious position of artificial human culture within a dangerous natural world is exposed. To add icing to this cake, they are finally attacked on the rope bridge by a gorilla! This gorilla in the Swiss Alps might be something which Luis Bunuel would have enjoyed. In the end, the composer welcomes his wife back and accepts the artificial, anything-but-innocent nature of his art. L & H, the latter of whom has been in love with the wife, are chased away from the village by, of course, the gorilla.
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- Alpine Antics
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- Runtime1 hour 11 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
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