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==Plot==
==Plot==
Stan and Ollie arrive as new [[Incarceration|inmate]]s at a prison after apparently taking part in a hold-up raid, a raid they tell a prison officer they were only watching.
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy find themselves embroiled in a comedic misadventure upon their arrival as new inmates at a prison, purportedly implicated in a hold-up raid, an assertion they vehemently deny to a prison officer, claiming mere bystander status.


After signalling to friends across the prison wall a rope ladder appears while they speak to the prison guard. Their accomplices run off when the guard climbs the ladder, but when the guard opens the outer door he accidentally closes it with them outside and they run off. Reappearing with a shotgun and Laurel and Hardy return with the seats of their trousers shot out.
During their initial encounter with the prison guard, the duo's attempt to communicate with friends beyond the prison wall results in the unexpected appearance of a rope ladder. Seizing the opportunity for escape, their cohorts hastily retreat, leaving Stan and Ollie stranded outside when the guard inadvertently shuts the door on them. Their subsequent return is marked by the indignity of shotgun fire, leaving the seats of their trousers in tatters.


Assigned to outdoor labor, Stan and Ollie find themselves thrust into the peculiar dynamics of prison life, where fellow inmates humorously designate the guard's dinner table as their own. Tasked with felling a tree, their clumsy efforts culminate in a calamitous event as the timber collapses onto the guard's tent, coinciding inconveniently with the arrival of the prison governor.
Doing outside works, the fellow prisoners tell them the guard's dinner table is theirs and they begin to eat.


Subsequently reassigned to ditch-digging duty alongside their fellow convicts, the hapless duo's plight worsens when Stan's errant pick-axe inadvertently punctures the radiator of the governor's car, instigating a series of farcical events. In a misguided attempt to rectify the situation, they endeavor to remedy the damage by filling the radiator with dry rice, following the advice of a fellow inmate. However, their makeshift repair yields unexpected consequences as the rice transforms into a chaotic eruption resembling rice pudding, sparking a whimsical rice-throwing melee involving the visiting governor and his entourage.
Sent to chop a tree down, it eventually falls on the guard's tent just as the governor drives up.

They are sent to dig ditches with other convicts on work detail. After Stan's pick-axe gets caught in Ollie's jacket and rips it, Ollie throws the pick away and it accidentally pierces the radiator of the governor's car. They stem the flow of water by filling the radiator with dry rice on the advice of another convict. However, the rice boils up and spews out as rice pudding after the engine is started. This starts a rice-throwing melee with the visiting governor and his party.


==Cast==
==Cast==

Revision as of 17:58, 27 February 2024

The Hoose-Gow
Directed byJames Parrott
Written byH.M. Walker
Nat Hoffberg
Leo McCarey
Produced byHal Roach
StarringStan Laurel
Oliver Hardy
CinematographyPaul Kerschner
Len Powers
George Stevens
Edited byRichard C. Currier
Music byWilliam Axt
Spencer Williams
Production
company
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
  • November 16, 1929 (1929-11-16)
Running time
20' 07"
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Hoose-Gow is a 1929 short film starring Laurel and Hardy, directed by James Parrott and produced by Hal Roach.

Plot

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy find themselves embroiled in a comedic misadventure upon their arrival as new inmates at a prison, purportedly implicated in a hold-up raid, an assertion they vehemently deny to a prison officer, claiming mere bystander status.

During their initial encounter with the prison guard, the duo's attempt to communicate with friends beyond the prison wall results in the unexpected appearance of a rope ladder. Seizing the opportunity for escape, their cohorts hastily retreat, leaving Stan and Ollie stranded outside when the guard inadvertently shuts the door on them. Their subsequent return is marked by the indignity of shotgun fire, leaving the seats of their trousers in tatters.

Assigned to outdoor labor, Stan and Ollie find themselves thrust into the peculiar dynamics of prison life, where fellow inmates humorously designate the guard's dinner table as their own. Tasked with felling a tree, their clumsy efforts culminate in a calamitous event as the timber collapses onto the guard's tent, coinciding inconveniently with the arrival of the prison governor.

Subsequently reassigned to ditch-digging duty alongside their fellow convicts, the hapless duo's plight worsens when Stan's errant pick-axe inadvertently punctures the radiator of the governor's car, instigating a series of farcical events. In a misguided attempt to rectify the situation, they endeavor to remedy the damage by filling the radiator with dry rice, following the advice of a fellow inmate. However, their makeshift repair yields unexpected consequences as the rice transforms into a chaotic eruption resembling rice pudding, sparking a whimsical rice-throwing melee involving the visiting governor and his entourage.

Cast

Opening title

'Neither Mr. Laurel nor Mr. Hardy had any thoughts of doing wrong. As a matter of fact, they had no thoughts of any kind.'

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