Saps At Sea Co-starAbenteuer auf hoher See Reviews & Ratings. Write review. Index. While the premise of the film is pretty lame (Ollie is diagnosed with. Hal Roach- produced Laurel and. Hardy film. In fact, it wouldn't be a bad idea not to see ANY of their. Laurel and. Hardy films NEVER would do. They had a bit of an edge that all the. Saps at Sea movie info - movie times, trailers, reviews, tickets, actors and more on Fandango. With Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson, Ben Turpin. Oliver suffers a nervous breakdown as a result of working in a horn factory, but when he follows doctor's orders about sea air, he finds an ex-con is aboard. In their last film for Hal Roach, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy play employees at the Sharp and Pierce Horn Factory, where the workers tend to go beserk at a rate of one per hour. Driven crazy by the cacophonous G-minor horn. Stan and Ollie work at a horn factory. This sounds pretty funny, but it. Not surprisingly with all the racket, Ollie is about to have a. The doctor (James. Finlayson- -in his last film with the team) recommends an ocean voyage. Once they are on the boat, a dangerous escaped. Part of. this was due to the boys' declining health (and Ollie's increasing. SAPS - Sea Point - Western Cape - Contact Us, Phone Number, Address and Map Police Stations. Find us at c/o Bay Road and Bill Peters Drive in South Africa. Find great deals on eBay for saps at sea. Shop with confidence. Wir verwenden Cookies, um ein verbessertes Online-Erlebnis zu bieten und Ihnen speziell auf Sie zugeshnittene Inhalte und Dienstleistungen bereitzustellen. Mit der Nutzung von Dailymotion geben Sie uns Ihr. Buy Saps At Sea on Amazon.com FREE SHIPPING on qualified orders. This film certainly has all of the basic. But it's their serious. They don't play it. In this film, they are faced with some basic issues that really. That's where the. L& H always take a most plausible. This makes us laugh because we. That's what makes Stan and Ollie universal in their. In this film all those ingredients are presented in a. Not their best in. Roach because he wanted to mirror the . They. should have all stayed together and continued for maybe five more. What the world may have missed in their not considering this as. Watch, laugh, and enjoy this as their last great. With its brief length, the film. Only the Boys get screen credit, but movie mavens will. James Finlayson appears as. Richard Cramer does full justice to his bad. Mary Gordon plays the Boys' perplexed neighbor. Watching Hardy. berserk at the sound of a horn, or Laurel's antics with. Finlayson tells them to do. But a. dangerous killer comes to the boat with them. Although there are weak moments - . The scene where. The Boys have to eat their own synthetic meal (. Stan & Ollie will always be pleasant companions in the lives of. Not that SAPS AT SEA is a bad film - it is the last good comedy. JITTERBUGS or another of the later films) that. Laurel & Hardy made. It's just that it is a toss- off little film. BLOCK- HEADS or the. Stan's . At 5. 7 minutes it is shorter than the other two films a bit. It has just enough time to. It's just not as special as the other two. Stan and Ollie work in a factory that manufactures horns. I suspect. that there was a bit of Chaplin influence in this sequence (one recalls. MODERN TIMES only four years. Ollie's nerves finally snap, and he goes on a rampage. He. goes home and (naturally) his roommate Stan does not help - Stan has a. After beating up the poor professor, Ollie has. Ben Turpin in a nice. Jimmy Finleyson) and his. Ollie's. stomach). Finleyson announces that it is a bad case of . They. end up going to a ship but Ollie and Stan know nothing about seamanship. Unfortunately the goat gnaws the. Also unfortunately, on. Richard Cramer, an escaped dangerous criminal. This is not. going to be a peaceful vacation. SAPS AT SEA (like A CHUMP) could have been three shorts, one at the. Each would have. been a successful short, and they all make a funny film - but the. There are some very amusing. Turpin's ineptitude causes. Charlie Hall when Stan or Ollie. Louis Cardinal teams of the 1. Dan Dailey's THE PRIDE OF. ST. Cramer has the boys cook him up some food - and they make a. When he realizes what they have done, he forces them. Their reactions are brilliant. SAPS AT SEA is not on par with the top line of Laurel & Hardy films. Hal Roach. Stan and Ollie hit back. THE FLYING DEUCES, wherein the production was not Roach's but. Boris Morros'. At last a two picture deal of A CHUMP AT OXFORD and SAPS. AT SEA concluded the arguments and problems - and on a high note the. Roach. Unfortunately they never found any subsequent film. The first time I saw it was on. Global Television Network in Canada when I was 1. They showed Laurel and Hardy features on Thursday nights that. I got to see quite a few of their Hal Roach features. I managed to miss . I think that it really nicely sums. Stan & Ollie had with one. They always stuck together through thick and thin (no pun. Sadly, this film was to be the swan song for both Ben Turpin (who. Harry Bernard, who does a memorable turn as a Harbor Patrolman. Harry. would succumb to lung cancer in November, 1. Ben. Turpin would die on July 1st of that same year from heart disease at. Rychard Cramer as the antagonist Nick Grainger manages to be both. I was surprised to find out. Kind of funny. considering he dubbed Stan & Ollie as Dizzy & Dopey! I definitely agree with other reviewers who have stated that one's. Laurel and Hardy experience probably shouldn't be one of their. Century Fox/MGM films, though some of those aren't all. Definitely avoid Utopia/Atoll K/Robinson. Crusoeland (Yes, this movie has three titles!). Just the fact that Stan. Laurel was so obviously appallingly ill, alone should be enough. Laurel and Hardy encounter. It. will likely be your last! Sorry I'm getting so off topic here. Once in the car, the. The plumbing is. messed up in their apartment. Like if you turn on the bathroom. Finlayson comes by. Ollie with Hornaphobia. Maybe worse: he's got. Hornamania. While he was. Stan's horn teacher arrived and they practiced. But before long, Stan and. Stan had the idea that. Ollie thought it was a. That night, the notorious Nick Granger, escaped the. Laurel & Hardy's boat, just as their. When they met, and realized they were shanghaied, Nick gavethem the nicknames Dizzy and Dopey. He then ordered them to. They haven't any food, but Ollie had an idea. They'd. him a synthetic meal. They used string for. Then the boys learn of a reward. Granger, so just as soon as he finishes his meal, the reward. Ollie's hand. Soon, the cops arrive and. Stan demonstrated with the. Laurel and. going to jail with Nick. I think. was their last one with Roach studios. But Laurel and Hardy's. Atoll K in 1. 95. But anyway, if you can find it, I. Saps At Sea was the last film Laurel and Hardy made for Hal Roach, and. L & H film. Working as horn. Ollie can't stand all the noise and has a nervous breakdown. James Finlayson comes to examine. He tests his lungs with a balloon; by pressing down on Ollie's. When Stan helps the doctor, the. Meanwhile, the plumbing in the building is all mixed- up. Turn on one. faucet, and water comes out of the other one. Turn on the bathroom. The woman. next door has a refrigerator that plays music and a frozen radio. When. Ollie phones the plumber, who should it be but cross- eyed silent star. Ben Turpin. All of this is good comedy, but it's not really Laurel and Hardy. The mixed- up plumbing is more like a Three Stooges short than. Stan and Ollie. This is a truly bizarre. When Professor O'Brian arrives to give Stan his trombone lesson. He peels back the skin. Underneath that is another one, so that. What are we to make of this? We might. call it the comedy of the absurd, but it's not Laurel and Hardy, and. Utopia. Getting back to Dr. Finlayson, he tells Ollie he has . The good doctor prescribes plenty of rest and a diet of. An ocean voyage would be perfect. But Ollie refuses to go. After he leaves, they decide to rent a boat in the harbor and sleep on. They also somehow manage to get a goat. During the night escaped. Nick Granger (Richard Cramer), running from the cops, hides out. The goat, tied to the dock, chews through the rope and the. He demands that they cook him some food, but they have. They. use string for spaghetti, sponges for meatballs, red paint for tomato. Coffee is a sack. Once again, this may be funny, but it's Charlie Chaplin's. The Gold Rush), not Laurel and Hardy! Is it really a good idea. Since Nick has spied on the boys and knows what they did, we have the. Ollie: It's just like mother used to make. Stan: Oh, she never made any as good as this. Nick: Well, if it's that good, you eat it. In a scene that's more. The funniest scene in the film is when Stan decides to practice his. Ollie starts to beat up Nick. Ollie is terrific as long as. Stan keeps blowing, but as soon as the music stops, he can only run. Nick in hot pursuit. And when the trombone falls. All things considered, as their last watchable film this is a good. It's not their best Roach movie, but it's. The boys work in a horn manufacturing company where they have. It is advised. that Stan take Ollie home for some peace and quiet, but with Stan to. Ollie, you know THAT will never happen! Stan calls funnyman Dr. Not long. after they get onto the boat, an escaped convict sneaks aboard and. Like some other L& H comedies, this one feels like it's. But don't let this deter you from checking it. This is still some of the best comedy. SAPS - Sea Point - Western Cape.
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