Duck Soup

1927

Comedy

5
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 50%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 50% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.5/10 10 1115 1.1K

black and white silent film short film

Plot summary

Fleeing a group of forest rangers, who are rounding up tramps to serve as firefighters, they take refuge in a mansion. The owner has gone on vacation and the servants are away, so Hardy pretends to be the owner and offers to rent the house to an English couple. Hardy gets Laurel to pose as the maid. Unfortunately, the owner returns and tells the would-be renters that he owns the house; Laurel and Hardy then flee again and are caught by the rangers and forced to fight wildfires.

Director

Fred Guiol Photo
Fred Guiol

Top cast

Oliver Hardy Photo
Oliver Hardy as Oliver Hardy aka Colonel Buckshot
Stan Laurel Photo
Stan Laurel as Stan Laurel aka Agnes
William Courtright Photo
William Courtright as Colonel Buckshot's Butler
Al Flores Photo
Al Flores as Train Passenger
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200.67 MB
1280*958
English 2.0
NR
24 fps
12 hr 21 min
Seeds 1
373.07 MB
1434*1074
English 2.0
NR
24 fps
12 hr 21 min
Seeds 12

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by classicsoncall 6 / 10

"Would you mind showing me the bedroom?"

Reviewed by springfieldrental 7 / 10

First Movie Laurel and Hardy Appeared Together For A Lengthy Period of Time

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy appeared in lengthy scenes together for the first time in March 1927's "Duck Soup" (not to be confused with the Marx Brothers' 1933 film of the same name). Even though they appear on a park bench and go about escaping from the forestry rangers conscripting the unemployed to fight nearby fires, Stan and Laurel dress like tramps, with Hardy unshaven and wearing a monocle and a top hat. This was the first movie, however, that McCarey saw the potential of the two as a comedy team. Despite finding themselves in the same locations and situations, the two act more as individuals then they do playing off one another in "Duck Soup"-lingo for "Easy as pie" and "As good as done."After "Duck Soup," Laurel and Hardy appeared in their next seven movies together, but each playing different characters from the other, even though they did interact.
Reviewed by BJJ-2 6 / 10

Virtually the first Laurel and Hardy film

Aside from two previous films(LUCKY DOG and 45 MINUTES FROM HOLLYWOOD),this film is the very first that Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy appeared together properly.For nearly 50 years a lost film,it was thought that the comedians hardly shared any scenes in DUCK SOUP,if at all.When a copy did turn up in the 1970's,all shallow theories and guesses were proved totally wrong.Laurel & Hardy are very much a team throughout the entire picture,although their appearances are decidedly unorthodox;"Stan and Ollie" are "Hives and Maltravers",and are dressed in tramp costuming;Stan however does wear a bowler hat.Ollie wears a hat too,but of the top variety,and sports an unshaven chin instead of a toothbrush moustache.The film itself isn't particularly funny,having much frantic chases and running about,instead of the more controlled,carefully-paced nuances that L & H perfected barely a year later in further films.But at least they are a team,which was not to be the case in their following couple of pictures,where they sometimes played bitter enemies.DUCK SOUP is a film of massive and important interest,though.6 out of 10.
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