From Soup to Nuts
- 1928
- 20m
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6.7/10
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Inexperienced waiters (Laurel & Hardy) are hired for a swank dinner party.Inexperienced waiters (Laurel & Hardy) are hired for a swank dinner party.Inexperienced waiters (Laurel & Hardy) are hired for a swank dinner party.
Tiny Sandford
- Mr. Culpepper
- (uncredited)
Dorothy Coburn
- Dinner Guest
- (uncredited)
Buddy the Dog
- Dog
- (uncredited)
Otto Fries
- Chef
- (uncredited)
Anita Garvin
- Mrs. Culpepper
- (uncredited)
Sam Lufkin
- Dinner Guest
- (uncredited)
Edna Marion
- Maid
- (uncredited)
Gene Morgan
- Dinner Guest
- (uncredited)
Ellinor Vanderveer
- Dinner Guest
- (uncredited)
- Directors
- Writers
- H.M. Walker
- Leo McCarey(uncredited)
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- TriviaThis entire movie was re-worked into a smaller timescale eleven years later in the first part of A Chump at Oxford (1940), with Stan & Ollie posing as maid & butler. Also, Anita Garvin re-prised her role in that movie as the host, and adopted the name "Mrs. Vandervere" as her character name. This is the real-life name of one of the party guests seen in THIS movie.
- Alternate versionsThere is also a colorized version.
- ConnectionsEdited into Laurel and Hardy's Laughing 20's (1965)
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From Soup to Nuts
As others have commented, this isn't one of the boys best, but it is probably on a par (if not better) than anything they had done individually up to that point in their careers. The set-up is simple: Stan and Ollie are a pair of hapless (what else?) waiters employed to serve food at a swank dinner party. Of course chaos ensues as Ollie repeatedly falls head first into a gigantic cake after slipping on a banana skin, and Stan takes the instruction to serve the salad without dressing literally. Some of the gags are a little repetitive, but there's enough quality here to see why Hal Roach decided to keep the boys together. The film was pretty much remade (together with elements from Another Fine Mess) to provide an extended prologue to the European version of 1939's A Chump at Oxford.
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- Runtime20 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
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