Night Owls (1930 film)

Night Owls (1930 film)
For other uses of the term, see Night Owl (disambiguation).
Night Owls
Directed by James Parrott
Produced by Hal Roach
Written by H.M. Walker
Starring Stan Laurel
Oliver Hardy
Music by Marvin Hatley
Cinematography George Stevens
Editing by Richard C. Currier
Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date(s) January 4, 1930 (1930-01-04)
Running time 20:34
Country United States
Language English

Night Owls is a 1930 two-reel Laurel and Hardy film. It was shot in October and November, 1929, and released January 4, 1930. It was also made in two foreign language versions: Ladrones in Spanish and Ladroni in Italian. The foreign versions retained not only the headliners, but Edgar Kennedy and James Finlayson as well.

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Plot

Police officer Edgar Kennedy is warned by his Police chief to make arrests to stop a burglary epidemic on his patch or face the sack. Kennedy comes across vagrants Laurel and Hardy that night and persuades them to rob the chief's house to get in his boss's good books. The boys, believing it to be too dangerous, at first refuse. After Kennedy threatens them with ninety days in "the rockpile," and assures them he'll get them released after they're caught, they agree to the ruse. Stan and Ollie encounter various problems but after various complications, the chief catches Kennedy with various valuables in his house, while the boys manage somehow to escape.

International versions

The film was also released in an alternate Spanish version, Ladrones, expanded to nearly four reels in length instead of the English two reels. Both versions are now available on DVD.

Notes

In the Film Classics reissue print, the original opening title music was replaced by a portion of the instrumental version of Marvin Hatley's "Honolulu Baby" from the Sons of the Desert soundtrack.

Cast

Production

This was the first film to use their celebrated theme tune, "The 'Ku-Ku' Song", written by Marvin Hatley.

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Stan Laurel (filmography) • Oliver Hardy (filmography)  • History (1925–36) & (1936–50)  • Comic style  • Music  • The Sons of the Desert
Collaborators
Charlie Hall  • James Finlayson • Hal Roach  • James Parrott  • Leo McCarey  • H. M. Walker • James W. Horne  • Leroy Shield • Marvin Hatley

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